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...
Car Feature: 800 Horsepower 1964 Dodge 330 by Renteria Bros.
Mike Renteria Sr.’s 1964 Dodge 330 makes 800 horsepower out of a 496ci big-block Mopar wedge motor, gets driven and shown regularly, and belongs to a man who is 70 years old. Mike is the father...
eBay Find: A Lunatic Fringe, Street-Legal, 9-second Fiat
This is awesome. A hell-raising 1937 Fiat that runs nines at the strip, has a killer little 327ci small block in it backed by a G-Force transmission, and is street legal. In a move that seems to defy...
Sponsor News: Detroit Speed Joins the BangShift.com family of sponsors.
BangShift.com would like to welcome Detroit Speed and Engineering to the BangShift family of sponsors. We pride ourselves on having the industries best companies as sponsors here at BangShift.com and...
New Sponsor: Optima Batteries Joins BangShift.com!
BangShift.com is proud to announce that Optima Batteries, The Ultimate Power Source, has joined us as a new sponsor for 2011. BangShift.com and Optima have enjoyed a very strong relationship over the...
BangShift Poll: Do You Care About the Geneva Motor Show?
Lots of automotive sites have been flooding the airwaves this week with coverage and glorified press releases from the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. There’s the usual bit of fawning over exotics, wry...
Unmanned Bulldozer in Texas Travels a Mile, Destroys Two Mobile Homes and Wounds House
Bulldozers. Mankind has harnessed their power for the forces of good, but occasionally they escape man’s feeble grasp and wreak havoc. Such was the case in Odessa, Texas last week when an...
