SEMA 2010 Sneak Peek: Mopar brings the heat
Chrysler announced today that they are bringing horsepower, and plenty of it, to SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week. Were you expecting Fiats with little engines? It wouldn’t have surprised us...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A Super Cool 1958 Chevy Apache Kustom
Kustoms tend to split people right down the middle of love and hate. We’re not particularly cultured in the tastes and trends of todays kustom realm, but this truck really turns our crank. Done...
Shop Tour: We visit with Ridetech in Jasper Indiana
Everybody knows the name Ridetech, manufacturers of some of the finest suspension systems on the market, but most of you have never gotten the chance to visit them at their headquarters and...
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme vs. Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. It’s Match Race Madness
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen have one of the fiercest and well publicized rivalries in racing history. And while Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and...
Event Coverage: 643 Photos from the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania
As BangShifter Joe Grippo put it, the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania is one of the most eclectic and diverse car shows around. From Hemi ‘Cudas to Duesenbergs, you’ll see it...
BangShift Approved: The Santa Ana Drags 1950-1959
The grass on the other side of the fence, drag racing days gone by, and pre smog years are just some of the things we humans, and hot rodders always seem to long for. And so in the spirit of those...
Video: The Winged Express pulls off its craziest burnout yet!
Wild Willie Borsch and his famed Winged Express Fuel Altered were always known for smokey, sidewall deflecting, sideways burnouts, so it’s only fitting that the legend continues today. At this...
Video: Bill Caswell to Build Baja BMW at SEMA, We Help
Our rally pal Bill Caswell, of BMW jumping, crashing, and hooning fame will be at the 2010 SEMA show in the Miller booth. Caswell will be transforming a BMW into a Baja 1000 competition vehicle which...
Car Show Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Auto Club Cruise, Foxboro, Massachusetts
We’ve been semi-regular visitors to the Mass Cruisers humongous car show that runs on a bi-weekly schedule at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Most recently, after a...
Funny Car-Nage: A Billet Aluminum Disconnecting Rod
You’ve reached a certain plane of BangShifter zen when you own a hot rod that a) requires billet aluminum rods and b) can break them in awful ways. Such is the case with our pal Dana Hard and...
2011 Hot Rod Power Tour Locations and Dates Announced
Forum Freaks of the world unite! Hot Rod Magazine has announced the dates and stop locations for the 2011 version of the Power Tour. GM Performance Division is back as the presenting sponsor of the...
Crash and Burn: Richard Petty Motorsports Appears To Be Finished
Well, there seems to be one NASCAR team that won’t need to worry about the introduction of electronic fuel injection in 2011. Richard Petty Motorsports appears to be financially insolvent. Team...
More Diesel Death Video: A Land Rover Smoke Machine
We can’t help ourselves. After seeing the Toyota van run itself to death we kept on searching for videos and found one featuring a Land Rover that had just been started for the first time after...
Quaker City Raceway Auctioned: Will Remain a Drag Strip; We Rejoice
Finally, the good guys win one! After a year filled with high profile drag strip closures, Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Ohio, went to auction and was purchased by a man who vowed to keep it open as...
