Tuesday Time Killer: Watch the 1950s B-Move “Drag Strip Girl” Full Length and Free!
When hot rodding was viewed as a major public menace, it became the focal point of movies, lots of them in the “B” genre. Parents were scared as hell of the “hot rod problem”...
Busted: Aussie Man Busted For Drunk Driving While Piloting Motorized Cooler
While the occasional, “guy drunk driving on his lawn tractor” gives us a smile, this is a new twist to an old saw. A man in Australia was caught by the coppers driving a motorized cooler...
Drag Gallery: The 2011 BHRA Nationals – Kennedale, Texas
Bill Hielscher was one hell of a drag racer and one of a true pioneers with respect to “touring professionals” in straight line competition. He was best known as “Mr. Bardahl”...
Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – August 2011
We weren’t planning on going to the Long Beach Swap Meet on Sunday. Our plans were more lofty. The centered around sleeping late and then sitting around in our boxers watching Nascar and...
Carnage Photo: When Good Pro Mod Tune Ups Go Bad
We happened to be announcing a drag race on Saturday night at New England Dragway in Epping, NH and our pal Peter Farber was there. Peter races Pro Mod and does so both locally an as part of the NHRA...
Event Gallery: 2011 Oswego Dragway Days – Oswego, Illinois
Our man Greg Rourke was on the scene of a totally bitchin’ event last weekend. The 2011 Oswego Drag Strip days event serves as a yearly celebration of the memory of Oswego Dragway, a strip that...
Barnstormin’: A Banzai Road Trip to Maine for Food, Fun, and Cars!
Back in early July, Chad went on a quick and fun road trip with the guys from Route 2 Media. They saw a bunch of neat stuff, scarfed down some great road food, and generally laughed themselves silly....
Project Car Video Update: Ethyl – The 800hp 2004 Pontiac GTO Gets a Cog Belt on the 4.0L Whipple Blower!
When we were cruising the BangShift garage section recently, we saw a frontal photo of a 2004 GTO that was hoodless. That caught our eye, so we clicked on the photo labeled Ethyl and we’re sure...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Dover Motorsports Kills Nashville Super Speedway
If you are an OG BangShift reader, you’ll remember an item we used to run every Friday called the “Excuse to go home early and drink”. Well, since there is crappy news abounding...
Cool Video: Let’s Ride Motorcycles
So if we led off by telling you that the below video is an advertisement for a Taiwanese bank, we’re not sure you’d get far enough to check it out. It would be your loss of course,...
eBay Find: A Bitchin’ Ex-Mopar Factory Drag Car Hauler!
We here at BangShift HQ are fully in love with old race car haulers, especially those of the factory variety. Reader Chris Crowley tipped us off to this absolutely killer 1974 Dodge factory drag car...
Caption the Greatest Helmet Photo Ever
This photo comes to us courtesy of Action Racing Photos and our friends Jay Spinella and Denis LeBlanc. It could be the funniest picture ever taken. This highly experienced racer was getting...
Caption This Photo: Why it is Totally Impossible to Look Cool Bicycling
This photo, shot on a cell phone by our pal Jay Spinella is too good not to share. It is the ultimate illustration of our theory that it is impossible to look cool on a bicycle, especially with the...
Road Trip Journal: A BangShifter’s Tale of Travel Woe Getting to the Car Craft Summer Nationals
(Editor’s Note: This is one hell of a tale! It takes a special level of testicular fortitude to set off on a 2400 mile round trip journey in your hot rod project. That level gets cranked up...
