Car Feature: Renteria Brothers’ 2,000-Horsepower, 6-second, 4-door, ’65 Plymouth Valiant
Normally you would consider a four-door 1965 Plymouth Valiant to be a family car, but normal doesn’t begin to describe the Renteria Brothers or their bitchin’ ’65 Valiant race car....
Cherry Bomb’s Disturbing the Peace Camaro Gets Huge Love in Popular Hot Rodding
Late in the 2010 SEMA show we ran into Cherry Bomb’s Matt Graves at their display. By that time in the week most people are usually pretty worn down from meetings, pitches, dinners, a few too...
Thread of Win: A School Kid Builds a Cut Away Mopar Four-Speed Transmission
Talk about a kick ass school science project! When Joel Nystrom’s son got assigned a presentation about gears and how they work, he and his dad schemed up a BangShifty way to learn something,...
Project Goliath Update: The Truck Gets Legalized and Then Heads to the Steel Surgeons
We know that news has been slow on Project Goliath as of late but that’s really because there’s been no news! We’ve been waiting through an intense New England winter, saving...
Car Feature: Jim Sartori’s 10-Second, Aluminum FE Powered 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe
If the guys bootleggin’ moonshine back in the day got their mitts on Jim Sartori’s 1940 Ford, they never would have been caught. Thanks to power from an all-aluminum, 485ci Ford FE motor...
Mechanical Lunacy: New Manitowoc 31000 Crane Makes 5-million Pound Test Lift
Wisconsin’s Manitowoc company, a maker of cranes and other equipment, last summer made a test lift with their new 3100 model crane. Long story short, it lifted 5.5-freaking-million pounds. You...
Eargasm Video: The Sound of a Race Hemi Through the Dyno Exhaust at Ray Barton’s Shop
Typically dyno videos feature the engine on the stand making a pull. Normally the camera guy is on the other side of the glass by the dyno operator. This one goes in a very different direction. A few...
Event Gallery: The 2011 Texas Hot Rod Hoedown
This being our second show/cruise gallery in two days, hope for Spring is on the rise! BangShift’s intrepid Texas lensman Charles Wickam hit the 2011 Texas Hot Rod Hoedown in New Caney this...
Cruise Gallery: Donut Derelicts – March 2011
While the eastern half of the BS team was terrorizing the roadways on Saturday morning, the western half was hanging at one of the country’s coolest and earliest cruises, the weekly Donut...
The Parting Shift: Pulling Gears With the Front End in the Sky!
We’ve been Parting Shift delinquent for the last two weeks, so we wanted to get back into the groove with a good one. This helmet cam video shows Doug Lambeck, racing his A/Stock Automatic...
Video: Parts 1 through 4 of Ridetech’s Johnny Merder Hot Rodding his Grand dad’s 1965 Chevy Pickup
Some of us are lucky enough to own a car or truck that once belonged to a beloved family member. And some of those cars and trucks were bought new by said family member. Such is the case with Johnny...
Barnstormin’: Braving the Maine Elements for Diner Food and Cool Cars
Last weekend’s Lohnes family excursion to Owl’s Head Maine was really a fun trip. While my wife may not be a huge car person, she does like to travel and see new places. She also likes to...
Book Review: TV Tommy Ivo – Drag Racing’s Master Showman by Tom Cotter
When we were informed several months ago about an upcoming book on the career of “TV” Tommy Ivo and that book was to be written by Tom Cotter, our inner drag geek got very excited. We...
