Video: A Fuel Injected Pro Stock Hemi Tuning Session on Ray Barton’s Dyno
We teased you the other day with a short video of an 1100hp full race Hemi screaming into the night through the exhaust system of the dyno at Ray Barton Racing Engines, now here’s the whole...
New Jersey Motorsports Park Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
These are tough times to be running a race track in. Recently, the operators of New Jersey Motorsports Park, a multi-use racing facility in Millville, NJ declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to...
Stop and Gawk: Header Flaming Wheelstand Drag Race Photo Coolness
Kevin Blalock’s photos have appeared on the pages of BangShift before, but they have always shown cars exploding, on fire, or barfing parts. This time he sent one along that is just pure...
Racing Junk Find: A Beautiful Bonneville Racer 1955 Chevy
While there are probably a number of practical racing arguments against owning this absolutely awesome 1955 Chevy LSR machine, the non-practical reasons for owning it number in the thousands. The...
Bitchin’ Old Video: A Collection of 1936 Chevrolet Newsreels
Old promotional newsreel films are always a gas. This collection of Chevrolet-centric films from 1936 does not disappoint. There’s a bevy of bathing beauties using the car as a water slide and...
Robby Gordon Placed on Indefinite Probation by NASCAR
Robby Gordon, the multi-faceted driver that sees action in NASCAR, off road, and open wheel racing has been placed on “indefinite probation” by NASCAR officials after an scrum with his...
New Video From the Best Engine Explosion Ever, HD Detail of The Exploded Mill!
A short while back, we found video of the Never Satisfied pulling tractor exploding and launching the engine right out of it’s chassis. We were actually the first people to post that video and...
Tune In: Captain Jack McClure to Appear on the Wally Bell Show Tonight!
Captain Jack McClure one of the craziest guys we’ve ever had the chance to interview and feature here on BangShift.com, and the driver of the insane rocket powered go kart drag strip terror of...
Sayonara Saleen Mustang – Production to Close This Summer
t is the end of an era. For the first time since the early 1980s there won’t be a Saleen Mustang next year, hell, there won’t be a new one by the end of this summer. Revstone Industries,...
Reader Show Gallery: The 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars – Hamburg, NY
BangShift reader Jays67 answered our call to BangShifters when we asked for photos from car shows, drag races, or any BangShifty event that our readers attend. In Jay’s case it was the 2011...
eBay Find: An Original Barris T-Buggy, One of 12 Actually Built at Barris Kustoms
We’ve heavily bagged on George Barris here in the past. Mostly we’ve freaked out about the hideous looking late model disasters that Barris Kustoms has barfed out over the last few years....
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,...
