Massive Wreckage Video: The Two Scary Audi Wrecks from the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans
While Audi managed to win the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans, the victory came at an awfully high price. Two of their cars, both handmade, one-off, multi-million dollar pieces, were reduced to broken shards...
Kick Ass Drag Gallery: The 2011 Hunnert Car Heads Up – Great Lakes Dragaway – Union Grove, Wisconsin
When BangShift photo contributor Greg Rourke told us he was available to cover the Hunnert Car Heads-Up we were excited. After all, the Hunnert Car Heads Up has become one of the coolest...
Bill Caswell Inks Movie Deal, Jeremy Renner to Star in Slingshot, the Story of Caswell’s Wild Adventures
We’ve been dying to tell you about this! Bill Caswell has signed a deal with Jeremy Renner, who in turn has teamed with Paramount Pictures to make a movie on the wild rally adventures of Bill...
Cool Shop Tool: Adamstand Work Benches
Joe Adams is the creator and inventor of the Adamstand Work Bench. When we first learned about the neato piece of shop equipment we weren’t really sure as to what the heck we were looking at....
Hot Rod Power Tour Day 6: Brake Lights, Bowling, Burgers…And Peeing
To see Matt’s latest update, click here and we’ll take you right to it. This year’s Power Tour coverage promises to be some of our most fun yet. You see we conned our own Mad Matt...
Heidts Performance Car Challenge will feature Shipka, Pozzi, and BangShiftChad.
We’ve been fans of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational and it’s qualifiers like the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge for the last few years and have gotten to know some of the...
Ebay Find and Video: The Citroen HY. Maybe France’s most significant automotive contribution.
We know that we sometimes march to the beat of a different drummer around here, and that we dig vans. So it should be no surprise that we dig this Citroen HY Van and want it badly. Sure it makes...
Video: Ridetech’s 48 Hour Camaro hits the Hot Rod Power Tour Autocross
Jason and the gang from Ridetech sent us this cool video from the Hot Rod Power Tour Autocross in Nashville a couple days ago. Further proof that our, built in 46 hours and 42 minutes, Camaro is just...
Former Drag Racing Benefactor Evan Knoll to Face Federal Fraud Charges
Just the other day we were wondering what ever became of Evan Knoll, the Michigan man who ran Torco Racing Fuel, which became the biggest name in drag racing sponsorships during a several year run in...
Project Car Update: Detroit Speed builds a big tire Willys!
UPDATE: Click here to go straight to our latest update. We couldn’t believe it either! And this one is no April Fools joke. Detroit Speed is currently building a 1941 Willys for Mike and Janie...
2011 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Grand Marshall Bruce Larson to Appear on PowerBlock This Weekend!
The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is less than one week away. We’ll be there providing live streaming coverage of the event, right here on BangShift.com! Bruce Larson the NHRA champ and...
Hunnert Car Heads Up Goes Down This Weekend at Great Lakes Dragaway!
This weekend at the historic Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin, the Chrome Czars Car Club will host the third annual “Hunnert Car Heads-Up” nostalgia drag race. The event is...
Dyno Carnage Video: A Factory Transfer Case Goes Kablooey At Big RPM
As we were watching the awesome Norwegian hill climb video yesterday, we got to thinking about what transmissions and transfer cases these dudes were running. Well, believe it or not, some of them...
World’s Coolest Late 1970’s Street Machine ‘Cuda Getting Prepped to See Street Duty Again!
For years we have heard stories about a wild ‘Cuda that hit the New England scene in the late 1970s wearing a paint scheme that was unparalleled for the time. The stories seemed so wild that...
