BangShift Poll: Are T-Buckets Cool?
One of the debates that shakes BangShift right down to the core centers around T-buckets. Chad hates them to death and I think that they are generally cool. Brass lanterns and garish 1970s trend...
Hunnert Car Heads Up Coming to Great Lakes Dragaway – June 11
The Hunnert Car Heads Up Vintage Drags are back for their third running! The action will again take place at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. That strip was recently voted the most...
Big Collection of Nickey Chevrolets Headed to the Mecum Auction Block in May
One of the nation’s foremost collection of ultra high performance Nickey Chevrolets will hit the auction block during the Mecum Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011. The event is being held...
BangShift Tech: How much horsepower does a mechanical water pump really take to spin?
BangShift.com is proud to be working at Westech Performance Group on a variety of Engine Tech stories in 2011, and some are going to be in depth and others will be interesting facts or fun tests to...
Killer Project Video: The Gixxer Kart Has A new Foe!
For years the golden standard of insane power to weight ratio on the internet has been the infamous “Gixxer kart” which mated the engine from a GSX-R motorcycle to the frame of a tiny go...
First New Motion Camaro Hits the Road – 800hp Monster for Joel Rosen
A while back we announced that the legendary Motion Performance brand of Joel Rosen was going to be brought back with a series of hot rodded new Camaros. The first of these beasts has officially been...
Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring
Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Car Song of All Time?
On a recent cruise down the highway, we slipped an unmarked CD into the radio and out sprang Ronnie and the Daytonas, belting out their famous car tune, G.T.O. That got us to thinking about the...
Caption This Photo: A Well Worn Econoline
We’ve seen lots of neglected vehicles in our day. Typically, up here in New England they rot into a pile, but down in bayou country, they seem to suffer a different fate. This Econoline looks...
Is The AHRA Coming Back From the Dead Again?
Like a drag racing zombie that eats money, hopes, and dreams instead of brains, the AHRA may be coming back again. We were tipped off to the existence of a new AHRA website and on that site are...
eBay Find: A Vintage Jet Funny Car Available for Fun and Profit
Now that Nostalgia Funny Cars are sweeping the nation like some sort of nuclear powered wild fire, it seems about time for the same thing to happed with Jet Funny Cars. Yes, we know that is a...
Killer Trade-In Offer From Aeromotive!
With the sudden closure of Barry Grant recently, Aeromotive has been getting a lot of calls regarding BG equipment and they ability to service it. While Aeromotive is not able to provide support and...
BangShift Approved Video: Toyota MR2 Plus Radial Airplane Engine Equals Awesome
You may have seen photos of an awesome project that centers around mating an old aircraft radial engine to a Toyota MR2 floating around the internet recently. Well it was no hoax, and we have the...
BangShift overcomes stiff competition to finish 4th at Goodguys 2011 Editors Challenge
BangShift’s own Chad Reynolds entered into the fierce competition of the 2011 Goodguys Editors Challenge, at the 2011 Goodguys Del Mar Nationals, and came out with a number 4 finish. Getting...
