The Parting Shift: Ronnie Friggin’ Sox
We’ll jump right to it and tell you that if you’re in a hurry, skip to the last 30 seconds or so of this week’s Parting Shift video to see and hear why Ronnie Sox was called...
The BangShift Christmas Wish List: Arias Hemi Heads for LS Engines
We’re channeling our inner child for this wish list pick. Why? Because when you’re a kid there’s little regard for the usefulness or practicality of that thing you want to see under...
Cool Read: A Small Crankshaft Company Calls California Home
We rightfully bemoan the loss of manufacturing here in the US with some regularity. Because of that, when we see a story about a small company, especially one that makes high performance and racing...
Incredible Vintage Nitro Photos From NY International Raceway in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Man alive is this cool! We were tipped off to an amazing collection of nearly 400 photos taken at the long dead NY National Speedway in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They all seem to have been...
Auto Trader Classics Find: The Bushwacker AA/FD
Old school AA/Fuel Dragsters tend to fall in one of a couple categories.There are the raw dragsters that feature little to no body work aside from a cowl, the bizarro cars that feature odd engines or...
Killer Video: Bigfoot 1 Gets Thrashed in Take This Job and Shove It
It seems bizarre to say out loud, but the 1981 move Take This Job and Shove It was a significant event in the history of monster trucks. It was in the truck race scene of that film that Bigfoot One...
Cool Video: Old School Monster Trucks Crushing, Bogging…and Floating!
The modern day monster truck is a true marvel of engineering. They leap and fly like no other vehicles of their size and weight on Earth. Their engines and chassis technology allow them to launch...
BangShift Christmas Wish List: We Want the new 720hp LSX454R
Yeah, yeah, we asked for a 2012 Cobra Jet the other day, but our brand allegiances are pretty weak around here. We have love for pretty much all of ’em, especially when 720hp are involved. GM...
A Perfect Christmas eBay Find: A Rat Motored 1980 Toyota Corolla!
Now this is BangShift approved hot rodding. Found by one of our members and posted on or forums, this 1980 Toyota Corolla sports 454ci of big block Chevy power. Amazingly the motor fits into the...
Breaking News: Memphis Motorsports Park to be IHRA Sanctioned
BangShift has learned from reliable sources that the recently purchased Memphis Motorsports Park will operate under an IHRA sanction in 2011, assuming that the closing on the property concludes with...
Funny Wreck Video: A Rally Car Hit and Run
This video combines all the elements we love. There some surprise, some humor, and some one-in-a-million carnage. You’ll see a Toyota Celica coming hauling into a corner way too hot for the...
Caption This Photo: A Home Engineered Battery Repair
We got this photo from our buddy Jay Spinella. Jay’s brother Tom bought a riding lawn tractor from a co-worker and upon the initial start up noticed that the motor was making some bad noises....
Book Review:The Street Machines Idea Book by Sue Elliot
The latest in Motorbooks’ popular “idea book” series, Street Machines: classics, muscle cars, and modern, by Sue Elliot touches all the bases in the current world of street machines...
Memphis Motorsports Park Sold for $1.9M to PBIR Owner
USA Today is reporting that Joe Lubeck, the managing partner at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida purchased the former Memphis Motorsports Park at a public auction on Tuesday. The reported...
