Cruise Gallery: Bob’s Big Boy Cruise – October 2011
Normally Bob Chiluk is sending us galleries from the Chicago car scene, but he escaped the Fall doldrums and went out to California recently for a week or cars and surfing. We hate him too. Anyway,...
Missouri Man Finds Stolen Pro Street Camaro For Sale in Utah 16 Years Later!
Imagine that your first car is a 1969 Camaro that you eventually build into a bitchin’ Pro Street ride. Now imagine that very car being stolen right out from under you, probably disappearing...
Great Video: A 20-Minute Drag Week Retrospective from Hot Rod
This is the 2011 Drag Week video that tops them all. Put together by the guys over at Hot Rod it is a near 20-minute recap of the week, narrated by our old pal Freiburger. The video has some great...
eBay Find: A Never Run, Military-Spec Chrysler 361 – Still in the Nerf Crate!
Are we weird for getting all excited over seeing a 1960s era, never run Chrysler wedge motor in a nerf crate? Of course we are, but you knew that already. We got tipped off to this eBay auction which...
Wild Video: A Monster Lane Changing Wheelstand From a Small Tire Mustang
Now this is some wheels up action! This Mustang dead hooks at the hit of the throttle and it is full sky, full time from there on out. The guy driving this car has some serious stones because he...
Great Read: Bill Caswell Goes Mini-Cup Stock Car Racing
Last we checked in with our rally pal Bill Caswell, he was hamming it up over at the Goodwood Festival in England. Since then he’s been keeping busy working on some other projects which we have...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Approach to Selling an Old Car?
I was cruising down the road yesterday minding my own business when I spotted this cool old Buick Riviera for sale on the side of the road. The gigantic FOR SALE slathered across the windshield...
Racing Junk Find: An Awesome Early 1980s Off Shore Racing Boat With 3,000hp!
It has been said that a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That statement can be not more truthful than when applied to off shore racing boats, the mammoth boats that super rich...
Drag Gallery: The 2011 Pennsylvania Dutch Classic – Maple Grove, PA
For 40 years, NHRA Division One sportsman racers have descended on Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania to close out the season at the Pennsylvania Dutch Classic. This year was no exception....
Cool Site: Thunder V12 – Where the GMC 702 V12 is King!
One of the more amazing things to us is how many small companies pop up to fill niches in the automotive world. Thunder V12 is a small company that builds high performance versions of the old 702ci...
Show Gallery: The Burnout Houston 2011
The Burnout Houston 2011 was a rockin’ good time as BangShift Texas photo correspondent Charles Wickam found out. The show bills itself as being about, “Beer, Babes, Brats, Badass Rods,...
Cool Story: Washington State Bus Mechanic Wins Lottery – Buys Back Camaro Project
It is always nice to find a pearl of good in the sewer pipe of bad news that flows freely these days. A regular Joe bus mechanic named William Sitdham from Olympia, Washington recently won more than...
MSD Rolls Out a New Logo and a New Approach to the Aftermarket
MSD has announced that they’ve tweaked their familiar logo and more importantly that they are taking a fresh approach to the aftermarket in general, becoming a company that handles all aspects...
El Boom Video: Test and Tune Night in Vegas Goes Very Wrong For a Mustang Owner
The interesting thing about nitrous explosions is that their severity doesn’t necessarily line up with the seriousness of the machine involved. Basically, the street car guy is just as likely...
