Caption This Photo: Is he really small or is that truck really big?
In the next day or two, we’re going to tell you the story of an odd and cool Canadian monster truck junkyard. Before we get to that, we wanted to share a photo from the man who went to the...
Racing Junk Find: A Quarter-Million Dollar Horde of Vintage Racing Tires
When Firestone introduced the “gold stripe” racing tire in the late 1960s it basically made everything else used for dry asphalt racing obsolete. The tire was the first real...
Wild Crash Video: Lunatic in a BMW Causes Huge Wreck and Seems to Escape Scott Free
We always get pissed when we see some dweeb in a European sedan treating the highway like an autocross course. Somewhere in the back of our mind we start thinking about the potential for a disastrous...
Wednesday Time Killer: Awesome Photos and History From Oswego Dragway, Including Grumpy Jenkins Wreckage!
Oswego Dragway operated from 1955 to 1980. During it’s time, the track was a hot spot of door slammer racing, most especially Pro Stock and early bracket racing. BangShift photo contributor...
Instructional Video: How to Crash Your Harley During a Stationary Dyno Drag Race
Before seeing this video we held a couple truths to be self-evident. One of which was the theory that you had to be moving to crash your motorcycle. One bad ass in Texas proved us wrong at the 2011...
Project Fat Cad Update 7: Headers, Windshield Washers, and Two Left Handed Exhaust Pipes
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Crash Video: A Motorcycle Racer On a Weird Bike Wipes Out the Christmas Tree!
We bet the guy riding the bike in this video is an experienced rider that has really hauled some ass in his day. Unfortunately, no one had a camera out during those good times, but they were front...
SEMA Alert: The Bonneville Salt Flats Need Our Help!
The greatest natural racing surface on Earth, the Bonneville Salt Flats are in trouble and SEMA is ringing the bell for help from the gearhead world. As many of you know, the potash mining operation...
Splosion Video: How to Remove Your Carbs, Intake Top, and Hood Scoop With Nitrous
The world of high horsepower door slammer drag racing was built on nitrous oxide. Nitrous continues to be one of the bedrock staples in the world of Pro Modified, Top Sportsman, and Outlaw Door...
Great Read: How New and Old General Dynamics Employees Worked Together to Repair a Nuclear Submarine
When the submarine USS Hartford crashed into a Navy ship back in 2009, the future for the nearly billion dollar machine looked bleak. It had sustained massive damage to several critical areas of its...
Cool Video: A Chute’s-Eye View of an 8-second drag car run
It is tough to really illustrate the speed of a bad ass drag car through video. Actually, it used to be hard to do that. Before killer little cameras became commonplace, industrious racers would...
eBay Find: A Big Block Ford Powered AC That Isn’t a Cobra and Is Kind of Ugly
We like learning stuff, so when we found a listing for a 1968 AC Frua on eBay, we had to investigate simply because we had never heard about these cars before and since they had a 428ci BBF in the...
LSR News: Ohio State Students Begin Planning Buckeye Bullet 3 — Goal is 400 MPH
Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research is a place we wish we go hang out at. They teach and train some of the best and brightest engineers for the future of the automotive industry, and...
Wake Up Video: A Bad Ass Recreation of the Jerry Titus 1971 Pontiac Trans Am Road Racer
Is your Monday already headed down the tubes at work? Don’t fight it, just accept your fate that the day will suck and zone out, we’re here to help. A BangShift reader posted this video...
