Show Gallery: Kowalski Customs – Reading, Pennsylvania
Kowalski Customs in Reading, Pennsylvania has a well deserved reputation for building awesome stuff from traditional hot rods, to drag race cars, to Bonneville competition machines, and virtually...
BangShift Question of the Day: What is Your Coolest Piece of Personal Automotive/Racing Memorabilia
I’ve never been lucky enough to fight my way into victory lane at a race track. My several year bracket racing career was marked with a couple near misses, but no race wins. On one such near...
Bitchin Video: V8 Big Rigs Racing On Dirt in Australia!
A few days back we showed you a cool video of guys racing big rigs on an asphalt oval track in Canada. Unfortunately, we have since learned that the track is no longer in business, but the good...
Cool or Not: A Wild and Wicked Vintage Chopper
Our last round of “cool or not” was interesting because we showed the BangShift readers a 1962 Impala low rider done in the traditional form. The responses to that car were cool because...
Bonus Gallery: More Great Photos From The 2011 Bruce Larson Dragfest
We had one heck of a response to the gallery we posted of Bruce Larson’s 2011 Dragfest last week. Luckily for us, Doug Garrison was also at the event and he sent another great batch of photos...
Optima Video: The Teaser Reel to the Upcoming Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational TV Special
The 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge was one hell of an event with Danny Popp ultimately taking the victory. The event, which pits some of the best and most unique Pro Touring cars in the...
Historical Drag Link: The 1971 NHRA Supernationals – Piles of Killer Photos and Race Recap
A couple weeks ago we tipped you off to an awesome photo tour of Don Garlits’ Florida race shop from 1971. The photos were shot by an English photographer named Roger Phillips. As it turns...
eBay Find: A 1969 Boss 429 Mustang Drag Machine
This 1969 Boss 429 Mustang drag car is one of the neatest Mustangs we have laid eyes on in some time. Bought originally in New York and then sent directly to Tasca Ford in Rhode Island for tuning and...
Champions Crowned at 7th PSCA Street Car Super Nationals – Thrills and Chills During Wild Race Weekend
It was an amazing weekend of racing at the 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals held at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The cool Nevada weekend was marked by some incredible performances, like...
Replay and Results: The 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals From Las Vegas – Watch the Stuff You Missed!
Click here for results from the 2011 SCSN! CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS FROM THE 2011 SCSN
Dyno Insanity Video: A 3,000-HP Ford Big Block at Steve Morris Racing Engines
Long story short, this is a video depicting one of the craziest Ford engines on planet Earth. A twin turbo, 572ci big block that made 3,000hp on the dyno at Steve Morris Racing Engines, it is a mill...
Cool or Not: A Traditional, West Coast 1962 Impala Low Rider
Here’s one that may split right down geographic lines. This 1962 Chevy Impala was parked outside of the 2011 SEMA show and caught our eye while walking past it one afternoon. Low riders were...
Video: Big Rigs Racing On an Oval Track – Major Wreckage Involved!
While big rig oval track racing has been dead here in the United States for a couple of decades, the intrepid racers in Canada have never stopped…or at least up until 2005 they hadn’t...
Epic Fail: Austin Formula One Race and Race Track Both Appear Dead
In news that the dead corpse of Ray Charles could have seen coming, it appears that both the Austin, Texas 2012 Formula One race is dead and with it, the racing facility the event was to have taken...
