BangShift Reader Garage of the Week: A 1972 Plymouth ‘Cuda With Lots of Family History
BangShift member BKBridges has set up several garages in the newly formed up section of BS.com. Most of the cars have a common theme that we’ll get to in a minute, but this one in particular...
1971 Foyt Coyote Indy 500 Racer to Hit the Auction Block This Weekend
With the 2011 Indy 500 rapidly approaching, we got word that one of the neat old cars that competed for glory decades ago is set to be auctioned this weekend. The car in question is a 1971 Foyt...
Get Caught Up With the 48-Hour Camaro Here With Video Updates!
If you need to get yourself caught up on how the 48 Hour Camaro project has progressed to this point, we’ve got you covered! Throughout the day, along with the live streaming broadcast of the...
eBay Find: An Awesome and Fully Functional 1958 Mack B-61 Crane Truck
After spending the weekend driving our Goliath truck around with the kids and admiring some other old pieces of iron we saw, we were cruising eBay and stumbled across the ultimate prize for any lover...
Explosion Video: The Most Violent Nitrous Explosion We Have Ever Seen
No hyperbole, no bullshit, this is the craziest nitrous explosion we have ever seen. The footage comes from somewhere over in Europe, possibly the Nordic region. It shows a Top Sportsman/Pro Mod...
Horrendous Fire Video: A Nitrous Pro Mod Burns to the Ground in a Worst Case Scenario
The tip box was hot this weekend and we mean literally hot. The previous video, featuring the nitrous explosion from across the pond was followed by this pair of videos showing one of the most...
Site of the Week: Source of all AMC Matador Knowledge
One of the best things about the Internet is that it gives freaks a place to gather and celebrate the objects of their freakosity, then lets us outsiders drop by to share in the scene. As borderline...
Mini-Feature: Barb Hamilton’s 1937 Willys Gasser
Barb Hamilton is a woman who truly blazed a trail for females in drag racing. As much credit as Shirley Muldowney gets for “running with the boys” and becoming the first female to...
Cool New Flick: Drag Racing Dreams (Presented by Don Garlits)
We ran across the trailer for a new movie that is available to buy called “Drag Racing Dreams”. Don Garlits is involved with the project and the film seems to contain bitchin’ old...
New Zealand Bus Driver Crashes 10 Times in 18 Months, Gets Fired, Loses Appeal for Job Back
We were certain after reading the title of a story about a bus driver that crashed 10 times in 18 months and was fired, it would be based in some American city. That just seems to be the way things...
eBay Find: A Killer Blown and Injected Harley Drag Bike of Unknown Year and Origin
This crazy freak show of a drag bike really got our cranks spinning when we stumbled across it on eBay. The seller does not know when it was built or by whom, who raced it, whether or not it was...
Russian Wreckage Video: Ten Minutes of Crazy Ruskie Car Accidents
After watching this video, we’re pretty sure that you’ll never want to drive a car in Russia. The crashes range from small fender benders to full scale wreckage and violence. There are...
Memphis International Raceway Takes on Water, Facility Opening Delayed
In more race track news, Memphis International Raceway is currently fighting the same flooding that so many places in the in the country’s heartland are fighting. There is water on the...
Dead Again: North Wilkesboro Speedway is Closed Once More
One of the more uplifting stories of the last two years has been the resurrection of North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, unfortunately, the bottom just fell out of the “uplifting...
