AMC Gallery: The Kenosha Homecoming 2011
BangShift member and Wisconsinite Mikes343Sharpstick is a dude who loves his own bitchin’ AMC Javelin and has recently picked up an old IMSA racer AMC project as well. When he let us know that...
Cool Gallery: Mega Moto Demo Day at the Simeone Museum – Unobtanium in Action
The Simeone Museum is an incredible place when you consider that virtually everything in it belongs to one dude, Dr. Fred Simeone. Not one to just allow everything to sit and collect dust, Simeone...
Drag Gallery: The Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion – Englishtown, NJ
Joe Grippo braved incredibly oppressive heat to bring us an awesome gallery of nearly 200 photos from the Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion at Raceway Park in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. The...
Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, MA
We finally managed to get ourselves, and Goliath down to the massive, 2,000 car, bi-weekly cruise event at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts last week. With our two boys strapped...
BangShift Exclusive A 13-Original Mile 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 Emerges
We were recently tipped off to what may be the lowest mileage Third-Gen Firebird on Earth by our pal Berserko Bob. The car was bought brand new with the intention of being turned into an NHRA Super...
The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!
Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...
Killer Video: Mike Ryan Wheels His Freightliner Up Mount Washington!
Jason Lewis has done it again. The first time we saw Lewis do his thing with Mike Ryan we fell in love with the video, called “Size Matters”. It is Ken Block meets a hot rod Freightliner...
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...
