CAPTION THIS PHOTO: BERSERKO BOB PROVES ONCE AND FOR ALL HE IS THE STRONGEST ANNOUNCER IN THE WORLD
Lots of stuff has changed in the sport of drag racing over the years but one thing remains constant, rain outs suck. Well, they suck because no racing will happen, but if they happen early enough in...
Epic Wheelstand Video: One For the Record Book at Sanair Dragway in Canada
This is the wheelstand video to end wheelstand videos. Personally, my favorite before I laid eyes on this one was Steve Blue’s epic wheels up run from the Byron Power Wheelstanding World...
New BS Shirts for Sale – Just in Time for the Holidays!
After muddling along for a couple of years with our standard “logo” shirts, Chad and I hooked up with proud BangShift sponsor Snooky’s and enlisted their services in coming up with...
Amazing Find: An All Wheel Drive 1965 Mustang Built in 1965!
The famed Irish engineer and businessman Harry Ferguson is best known for creating the modern farm tractor as we know it. Ford’s amazingly popular N series of tractors were based on lots of...
Yellowstone Drag Strip Sold to Local Family – Racing to Continue at Facility in 2012!
Some great news to follow up on our blog item regarding the sale of Yellowstone Drag Strip. Normally when a strip goes up for auction there’s all kinds of wheeling and dealing behind the scenes...
eBay Find: The Weirdest Project Ever – Seriously – A Dodge Truck Looking – GM FWD Chopper Hauler
Since BangShift began, I have written literally thousands of items here on the blog. We’ve profiled hundreds of bizarre cars and trucks off of eBay and other places, but not a damn thing I have...
Incredible Photo: 68- Year Old Woman Plows Into Rear of School Bus, Amazingly Not Dead But Mustang Is!
Another day, another Ford Mustang that died in spectacular fashion, while apparently protecting (to the best of the car’s ability) the driver. In this case it was a 68-year old woman on Long...
Mad Matt Graves Joins American Powertrain: New Products, Announcements, and More to Come!
I met Matt Graves several years ago at the Car Craft Summer Nationals while standing by the grill and pouring drinks. To say we were fast friends would be like saying french fries like salt....
Driveway Tech: Battling the Stuck Rings on the Monte Carlo – Round 2
In our continuing attempts to be cheapskates and fix our oil burning ’73 Monte Carlo’s 350 spending as little as possible; we decided to try a tried and true solution to our...
ALERT!!!! Stolen Race Car. Please help!
I wish we had more information, but here goes. On Sunday at 2pm local time in Las Vegas, some douchebags pulled into a private lot and stole a fellow racers trailer, race car, golf cart, and...
Vote Now: Ford Racing Facebook Contest Evan Smith vs. Robert Hight
Everyone knows that we love drag racing here at BangShift.com and our boys over at the NMCA/NMRA just sent us this cool announcement, so we are calling on all BangShifters to help them out. NMRA...
DEAD: Ford Kills the Econoline Van – Euro Transit Van Slated To Replace It in 2013
The Ford Econoline van is Dearborn’s latest dead man walking. The line was introduced in 1961 and will conclude with the 2013 model year per Ford’s announcement yesterday. In the place of...
Racing Junk Find: A Vintage Time Capsule 1932 Ford Race Car
Lots of my favorite cars in the history of drag racing came from the Street Roadster class. Now relegated to Competiton Eliminator and lacking virtually all of the character and coolness of the old...
Feds Heap Nine New Charges On Knoll – Court Appearance Today to Determine Mental Competency
The legal woes of Evan Knoll just got exponentially worse. The superseding indictment that we reported about two weeks ago was filed in US District Court yesterday and it appears the government has...
