New Sponsor: Optima Batteries Joins BangShift.com!
Mar 03, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on New Sponsor: Optima Batteries Joins BangShift.com!
BangShift.com is proud to announce that Optima Batteries, The Ultimate Power Source, has joined us as a new sponsor for 2011. BangShift.com and Optima have enjoyed a very strong relationship over the...
BangShift Poll: Do You Care About the Geneva Motor Show?
Mar 03, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift Poll: Do You Care About the Geneva Motor Show?
Lots of automotive sites have been flooding the airwaves this week with coverage and glorified press releases from the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. There’s the usual bit of fawning over exotics, wry...
Unmanned Bulldozer in Texas Travels a Mile, Destroys Two Mobile Homes and Wounds House
Mar 03, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Unmanned Bulldozer in Texas Travels a Mile, Destroys Two Mobile Homes and Wounds House
Bulldozers. Mankind has harnessed their power for the forces of good, but occasionally they escape man’s feeble grasp and wreak havoc. Such was the case in Odessa, Texas last week when an...
Video: A BangShift Approved Wheelstander Golf Cart
Mar 03, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: A BangShift Approved Wheelstander Golf Cart
Wheelstanders rank as our favorite drag strip exhibition attractions. Sure, the jets are cool and put on a great show, but damn if we aren’t caught up in the idea of steering a car with the...
Don Schumacher Racing and zMax Dragway Offer NHRA Fans A Neat Hospitality Package
Mar 03, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Don Schumacher Racing and zMax Dragway Offer NHRA Fans A Neat Hospitality Package
Don Schumacher Racing and zMax Dragway, the house that Bruton built down in Concord, North Carolina, have gotten together to offer a cool hospitality package for fans attending or thinking of...
Splosion Video: A Mud Bogging Lincoln Trar Literally Grenades a Transmission
Mar 02, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Splosion Video: A Mud Bogging Lincoln Trar Literally Grenades a Transmission
Transmissions really bear the brunt of a lot of automotive abuse. Mud bogging may be one of the harshest environs for a slush box to operate in. This video proves that statement in a damned graphic...
Scoundrels: Ohio Couple Busted Stealing From GM Plant and Selling Spoils on eBay
Mar 02, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Scoundrels: Ohio Couple Busted Stealing From GM Plant and Selling Spoils on eBay
A couple in Boardman, Ohio has been indicted by two grand juries on charges that they stole parts from the GM plant in Youngstown and sold them on eBay. Reportedly, police found over 4,400 vehicle...
Aeromotive Giving Away Free A1000 Fuel Pump on Facebook! Enter Now – Drawing on Friday
Mar 02, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Aeromotive Giving Away Free A1000 Fuel Pump on Facebook! Enter Now – Drawing on Friday
Our friends at Aeromotive are giving away one of their industry leading A1000 Fuel Pumps this Friday. All you need to do is jump on their Facebook page, post photos of your junk and tell them how...
Cool Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Take Hot Rod’s Crusher Camaro on a Road Trip to Arizona
Mar 02, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Take Hot Rod’s Crusher Camaro on a Road Trip to Arizona
Hot Rod Magazine’s Crusher Camaro has seen many engine and transmission combinations over the years. The current version is certainly a fan favorite. Decked out in 1980s spec garb and sporting...
Awesome Video: The Trailer for a Documentary on Mike Charlton’s Bucks Down Quest for the Motorcycle LSR Record
Mar 01, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Awesome Video: The Trailer for a Documentary on Mike Charlton’s Bucks Down Quest for the Motorcycle LSR Record
Eastlake, Ohio’s Mike Charlton is a man of action, not empty words. He’s build and ridden his supercharged V8 exhibition drag bike for years. He constructed a jet powered semi-truck for...
Event Gallery: The Owl’s Head Transportation Museum’s Snow Movers Exhibition
Mar 01, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Event Gallery: The Owl’s Head Transportation Museum’s Snow Movers Exhibition
Owl’s Head, Maine is a small hamlet outside of the coastal city of Rockland. It is home to the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum, one of the neatest automotive, airplane, and mechanically...
Racing Junk Find: A ZL-1 Camaro Super Stocker That’s Ready To Run
Mar 01, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: A ZL-1 Camaro Super Stocker That’s Ready To Run
In the ranks of Super Stock, the closer your class designation gets to the beginning of the alphabet, the quicker and faster you’ll be. Naturally, if you find yourself behind the wheel of a...
Pomona NHRA Top Fuel Winner Interview: Morgan Lucas Talks to BangShift During Pre-Season Testing
Feb 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Pomona NHRA Top Fuel Winner Interview: Morgan Lucas Talks to BangShift During Pre-Season Testing
When we scheduled all these interviews to run here on BangShift, we had no freakin’ clue that Morgan Lucas was about the kick eveyone’s ass out in Pomona, but hey, it worked out great for...
Pro Stock Chat: Catching Up With Shane Gray at the Las Vegas Pre Season Pro Stock Test
Feb 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Pro Stock Chat: Catching Up With Shane Gray at the Las Vegas Pre Season Pro Stock Test
Here’s the younger half of another father/son tandem on the NHRA tour, Shane Gray. Shane’s dad Johnny was most recently a Pro Stock driver who has made the leap back into the nitro Funny...












