BangShift Project Spotlight: The Unholy Union of a Caddy V6 and a Fiat Spyder
BangShift member Aaron had a problem. He was arguing with his wife about fuel efficiency and how a light car with a modern engine could perform at a high level (50 mpg) and that electric hybrids...
Hot Six Video: An Aussie Ford Falcon With Turbo Straight Six Power Tears Up the Strip
While Aussie gearheads love the V8 engine as much as their American brothers and sisters do, the history of performance cars down under has been marked with some pretty bad ass six cylinder engines....
Killer Documentary Video Alert – Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary
Without question, the Buick Grand National is one of the greatest performance cars ever produced by General Motors. During a rather moribund time in the performance history of the Buick brand, this...
Update: Epic Project Thread: Building a Twin Engine Dragster From Scratch
We have lots of respect and interest for all the projects that BangShifters have going on currently, but one has really got our tongue hanging out. BangShift member Toymaker is building a twin engine...
The Top 10 Reasons You Need to Attend the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion
October 21-23 are the dates for the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion, held at Famoso Raceway, in Bakersfield, California. This is one of the premier nostalgia drag races in the world and the...
Cool Vintage Army Training Video: Missile Men – A Look at the Dawn of the Guided Missile Age
We have proclaimed ourselves history dweebs many times here on the electronic pages of BangShift, so it should come as no surprise that we’ve dug up a killer old Army video that is quite...
Blastolene’s Latest Build: The Decoliner – Flash Gordon’s Motorhome
The latest build from the fertile mind of Randy Grubb and the Blastolene stable is called the Decoliner and it is a wild motorhome that looks as though it belongs in a Flash Gordon movie. Starting...
Cruise Gallery: The Hot Rod Magazine Cruise Night – El Segundo, California
Scott Liggett, our man on the scene in Southern California recently took in the monthly Hot Rod Magazine Cruise night, held on the last Friday of the month at the Automobile Driving Museum in El...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Geneva Concours d’Elegance – Geneva, Illinois
Normally with the words Concours d’Eelgance are thrown around, visions of important people dressed in dumb clothing gawking at old foreign cars come to mind. In the case of the...
Roadside Find: A 1964 White Cab Over Semi Truck Still On the Job!
Yesterday, we decided to play storm chaser with the family and headed down to the ocean to see all of hurricane Irene’s fury. Well, the storm was built up to be this near doomsday event in New...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Wheels of Time Rod and Custom Jamboree – Macungie, PA
For 33 years the Wheels of Tim Rod and Custom Jamboree has been taking place. This year, one of our Pennsylvanian photo dudes, Doug Garrison hit the show with his camera and sent us back more than...
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Cruise – Kemah, Texas
Charles Wickam, our talented embedded Texas BangShift photographer has been laying low as of late. The oppressive summer heat in Texas tends to slow the scene down for a couple months. Now that it...
Introducing Project Brutus – Our Totally Sweet 1968 C50 Wrecker!
Well, I’m doing it wrong again. After bringing my 1966 Chevy C50 Goliath back to life and spending all summer running around in it, I’ve really grown to love the big lug. That’s why...
Fun Video: The General Lee and The Bandit Firebird In a High Speed Chase!
In the realm of fantasy car chases there isn’t a match up cooler than this one! The guys over at Hot Rod Magazine got a General Lee and a Bandit Firebird together for a good old fashion romp...
