Vote for Kyle Tucker! BFG “Select the Seats” Baja 1000 Voting Starts Now
Detroit Speed’s Kyle Tucker is once again in the hunt for a seat in the famed Baja 1000 and thanks to BFG you can help him get there. Voting has started on BFG’s Facebook page, and there...
Feedback: Take the MSD Survey and Tell ’em How They’re Doing!
Proud BangShift sponsor MSD Ignition is a company that spends lots of time interacting with their customers. From scouring the country with their massive tech trailer at NHRA events, truck pulls, and...
The Rest of the Story Behind Grumpy Jenkins 1977 Match Race Wreck at Oswego Dragway
Earlier this week we ran an item that highlighted a cool website centered around the history of Oswego Dragway. One of the photos on the site was of Grumpy Jenkins’s Pro Stocker mangled...
Caption This Photo: What the Hell Happened? Seriously, What the Freaking Hell Happened?
Holy wild photo Batman! BangShift photo contributor Greg Rourke nailed this shot of a completely mangled Chevy truck teetering on a bridge girder recently. We don’t want to skew the captions on...
20 Minutes of Engine Pornography: A Look at 25 Motors from Nelson Racing Engines
No matter what you think of Tom Nelson and his engines, there’s no denying that the man understands how to promote his business. His “NRE TV” channel on YouTube draws tens of...
eBay Find: A Ford F-2/4/650 on a Military Frame and 52-inch tires that packs big diesel power
Nervous about our debt ceiling? Fearing that the end of the world is coming in 2012? Worried that zombies are going to attack your town and escape will be futile? We’ve got the answer and in...
Elliot Handler, Creator of Hot Wheels Dies at Age 95
The man who created the most influential automotive toy of all time, the Hot Wheels brand of cars has died in California at the age of 95. Launched in 1968, it is estimated that more than 41 million...
It’s just Wrong: A Caddy Wearing Truck Parts or a Truck Wearing Caddy Parts?
Of all the bizarre junk we have posted on these electronic pages before, nothing trumps this. Nothing. We apologize in advance if you have eaten recently or have a fondness for either 1980’s...
Roadside Find: Vintage Dodge Big Truck Goodness
Stuff like this is the reason we never leave home without our camera. We were cruising to a cookout on Labor Day weekend when we rolled by a small fire station and spotted this neat Dodge LCF. After...
Caption This Photo: Is he really small or is that truck really big?
In the next day or two, we’re going to tell you the story of an odd and cool Canadian monster truck junkyard. Before we get to that, we wanted to share a photo from the man who went to the...
Racing Junk Find: A Quarter-Million Dollar Horde of Vintage Racing Tires
When Firestone introduced the “gold stripe” racing tire in the late 1960s it basically made everything else used for dry asphalt racing obsolete. The tire was the first real...
Wild Crash Video: Lunatic in a BMW Causes Huge Wreck and Seems to Escape Scott Free
We always get pissed when we see some dweeb in a European sedan treating the highway like an autocross course. Somewhere in the back of our mind we start thinking about the potential for a disastrous...
Wednesday Time Killer: Awesome Photos and History From Oswego Dragway, Including Grumpy Jenkins Wreckage!
Oswego Dragway operated from 1955 to 1980. During it’s time, the track was a hot spot of door slammer racing, most especially Pro Stock and early bracket racing. BangShift photo contributor...
Instructional Video: How to Crash Your Harley During a Stationary Dyno Drag Race
Before seeing this video we held a couple truths to be self-evident. One of which was the theory that you had to be moving to crash your motorcycle. One bad ass in Texas proved us wrong at the 2011...
