Not Green: A Runaway Toyota Diesel Dies In a Massive Cloud of Smoke
The runaway diesel engine is an interesting thing. The condition can be brought on by a number of factors. In this case it was apparently caused by overfilling the engine with oil. With no throttle...
Video Update: Spectre Speedliner goes 415 mph at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout
A few weeks ago we posted this item, but now there’s some cool video (below) to see. Already the fastest Cadillac powered vehicle in history, the Spectre Speedliner just went 415.7 miles per...
CackleFest Video from the 2010 California Hot Rod Reunion at AutoClub Famoso Raceway
If you saw our live broadcast of all the racing action at the 19th Annual NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion presented by Auto Club of Southern California, and Justice Brothers, you know that Nostalgia...
Score Ridetech’s New 130-Page Catalog FREE!
We got word on the executive tip line that our buddies at Ridetech are offering their brand new 130pg catalog for free to anyone who requests one. There are no strings attached and just a simple...
eBay Find: A Factory Supercharged 1954 Kaiser Manhattan
Believe it or not, the 1954 Kaiser Manhattan was the first car to offer a factory supercharger after WWII. While that sounds sexy and exciting, you have to realize that the blower was forcing air...
Watch Hot Rod’s Rob Kinnan and His Lemons Team Finish Their Car at Craftsman Experience Live
Hot Rod Magazine editor Rob Kinnan (seen in the photo snoozing on the salt in 2008) will be at Chicago’s Craftsman Experience with his 24 Hours of Lemons team wrenching on their car to get it...
Website of the Week: A Massive Collection of Race Driver Biographies
We’re unrepentant racing history geeks here at BangShift and we know lots of you out there in reader land are too. We got tipped off to the most incredible collection of stories and biographies...
Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...
Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza 2010
From the Long Beach, California area, we now whisk you to League City, Texas, where our Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam attended the Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza car show. This was a...
Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – September 2010
Our intrepid West Coast correspondent Scott Liggett dragged himself out of bed in the pre-dawn hours a couple of weeks back to hit the September version of California’s vaunted Long Beach Swap...
Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip
When Berserko Bobby Doerrer called us up and said that he was helping out with a jet car that had just matched raced a monster truck at Palm Beach International Raceway, we asked him to place his...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1968 McLaren Can-Am Racer
When the great book of bendy racing is written, two classes of race cars will sit atop of the heap of the nuttiest ever to turn right and left. Those two classes are the Group B rally machines of the...
Barnstormin’: Spoiled Rotten
Sitting here in the East Coast BangShift World HQ, I’m still trying to wipe the perma-grin off my face from our weekend broadcast of the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Tens of thousands...
British Virgin Islands Hires Consulting Firm to Study Possible Drag Strip Project
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) government recently hired New Direction Consultancy to conduct a feasibility study on whether or not the BVI should have a drag strip. That company has contacted the...
