Company to Develop Flying Humvee Chopper for Pentagon
A Massachusetts company called Terrafugia has been chosen by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to lead the development of a bad ass flying 4×4 vehicle for the military. The specs...
Barnstormin’: In With the Outlaw
A recent trip to the Tampa, Florida area gave me the chance to visit a drag strip I had never been to before. The strip is Lakeland Dragway, an eighth-mile track that runs as an outlaw, or...
Cool Project: How to Build a Modern AMX in Your Home Garage
While wrenching on Goliath recently, a dude pulled up in a minto Lucerne blue Trans-Am and asked if we had any trim pieces on the Javelin in our backyard. We invited him back to take a look, but that...
Question of the Day: Have You Ever
A couple weeks back out pal Dave contacted us and asked if we wanted an old rear end that was sitting in the woods behind a family member’s house that he was helping to get ready for sale....
Crazy Photos: The Entire Sideways Smoking Nova Burnout Sequence
Last week we dared you to try and caption one of the coolest drag racing photos we had seen in some time. The Nova in the photo was in the middle of a monster burnout but was completely and...
The Coolest Pedal Car Known to Man
Our buddy Jeff, the owner of the (formerly) Hack Job General Lee loves to hang out with his buds at the infamous “Bat Cave Body Shop”. These are the guys who painted the Hack Job and...
Show Coverage: We’ve got 250 photos from the 2010 John Force Racing Holiday Car Show
December means more than car parts under the tree for Southern California residents, it also means it’s time for the John Force Racing Holiday Car Show and Toy Drive 2010. Yorba Linda, home to...
Caption This Photo: One of the Coolest Drag Shots We’ve Seen in a Long Time
If this photo of a bad ass Chevy Nova heading east to west on a north to south drag strip doesn’t make you smile, check your pulse. The photo was posted on our Facebok page and we immediately...
eBay Carnage: A General Lee That Died With Its Boots On
Our soft spot for General Lee Dodge Chargers runs pretty deep and we’re not ashamed to admit that. We followed the epic rebuild of the Hack Job General Lee from the get go, and it was...
Video: The 2011 Camaro Convertible. We’ll take two.
We’ve got a 1969 Camaro Convertible in the BangShift.com project car fleet, so it only makes sense that we’d be excited about the new 2011 Camaro Convertible. We got to see one in person...
Video: Wheelstanding Stock Eliminator 1969 Camaro
Let’s face it, we like a lot of racing. But since we grew up around NHRA Stock Eliminator drag racing, and one of the family racers was a 1969 Camaro, we have a certain soft spot for first-gen...
Craigslist Truck Pick of the Week: 1969 GMC Long Horn C60
As an homage to our fearless truck and tractor aficionado, Brian Lohnes, we came up with this cool Craigslist Truck Pick which came to us via the BangShift bat phone. “Brn Agn” on the...
Video: Drag Car hits wall, comes apart, and almost takes out the camera man.
Sean Melton, one of our loyal BangShift Forum members, sent us a link to video that he shot at Immokalee Dragstrip in January of 2010. The video is pretty crazy to watch as Sean found himself...
Video: Chad Introduces Ridetech’s New Triple Adjustable Coil-Over Shocks
While at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, we showed you several new products on video, but we still had one in the bag. After making it’s debut at the SEMA Show, we are introducing...
