Project FatCad Update 5: The Sawzall Come Out and Bites Into the 2011 CTS-V Wagon!
FatCad Installment 1 FatCad Installment 2 FatCad Installment 3 FatCad Installment 4 It’s been less than 2 weeks, and the weight is dropping faster than I allowed myself...
Car Show Gallery: The Automobile Driving Museum Charity Car Show – El Segundo, California
Saturday morning was foggy and drizzling when we sent our man Scott to El Segundo with his camera. He was tasked to cover the 4th Annual Car People For Education Benefit Car Show at the Automobile...
eBay Find: A Blown Hemi Powered ’57 Chevy Gasser
We’re getting excited to see the old school gassers at the 2011 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, so excited in fact, we decided to go day dreaming on eBay to find a nose bleedin’,...
Massive Gallery: The Carlisle All Ford Nationals
Joe Grippo is a lot of things to us here at BangShift but first and foremost, he’s a Ford man. That being said, it should come as no surprise that he nearly wore the shutter button off of his...
Tire Thrash: We Hammer BMWs and Test Out Bridgestone’s Latest Performance Tire Offerings
Recently, the fine folks at Bridgestone Tires invited us to attend one of their “Drive and Learn” events. These events are primarily designed to educate sales people and distributors...
Legit Classic Gassers to Race Heads-Up at This Weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!
As if you needed another reason to attend this weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, here it is. There will be a special eighth mile, heads-up eliminator...
Cool Video: Ride Along in a Blown, 44ci Crosley Powered Dragster
We can say with a degree of certainty that this is the only 18-second drag car that will ever be featured in the BangShift blog. Ironically, it is that 18 second time slip that makes it so damned...
Event Gallery: The Tri-Cities Drag-Way Reunion – Endicott, NY
We’re officially in the era of the drag strip reunion. If you are a “glass half empty” person you see it as being sad because it reminds us of just how many strips have closed down....
Video: Tom and Jack Lohnes Pull out a Tree With Goliath!
After Dad Brian scored them a killer new Go Kart, the Lohnes boys, Tom and Jack, decided they needed more room on the Lohnes family homestead to create their own racetrack. Since Brian had also told...
Cruise Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise – Halifax, MA – June 2011
It was a fun night when we loaded the kids up and headed south from BangShift East Coast HQ in Goliath to the Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise Night last week. It was especially cool when we were...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Vicksburg, Michigan Old Car Festival
We’ve been taking you all over the country with our car show coverage today, and we’re not stopping! This time we head to Vicksburg, Michigan for the 2011 Vicksburg Old Car Festival, a...
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise – June 2011
With the temperatures sky rocketing in Texas at this time of the year, car show season hits a bit of a lull from the frenetic pace of the early Spring. Luckily, cruise night season is still going...
Massive Wreckage Video: The Two Scary Audi Wrecks from the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans
While Audi managed to win the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans, the victory came at an awfully high price. Two of their cars, both handmade, one-off, multi-million dollar pieces, were reduced to broken shards...
