The Corvette ZR1 is Slow (Selling)
Back in 2009 the sledgehammer ZR1 Corvette made a triumphant return to the American automotive landscape. The killer 638-hp Corvette was a magazine darling and a highly marked up dealer cash cow. The...
Project Car Spotlight: The Coolest 1976 Chevelle in Norway
The BangShift.com community is worldwide. Grease smeared, transmission fluid stained, bloody knuckled gearheads can be found at all corners of the Earth. Proof of that is BangShift.com member Arlid,...
Killer Historic Video: Ford Crash Testing From the Late 1950’s
Crash testing is a normal part of modern automotive engineering. Sensors, wires, high speed cameras and all manner of complicated testing widgets are used to make sure new cars are as safe as...
Idiots Burn Themselves Badly While Trying To Ride a Barrel of Race Fuel
Stupidity knows no bounds and emergency medical responders in Sedro Woolley, Washington know this better than anyone. They had to respond to an incident involving two men practicing something called...
Modified GM Futurliner For Sale on eBay: It’s Pimptastic
GM constructed 12 of the giant Futurliners in 1940. In 1953 they were updated to the form that we know them in currently. They were both the transporters and feature attraction of the General Motors...
Video: We get Terminal Velocity Jet Car running 202 in the 1/8th
While we were at the Mooneyes Summer Car show, we had the chance to shoot video of the Terminal Velocity Jet Dragster running down Irwindale’s 1/8 mile dragstrip. It ran 3.96 at 202 in the...
Event Coverage: The New England Dragway All-Truck Nationals 2010
After spending about 15 hours at New England Dragway announcing a major event on Saturday, we were greeted at o’dark-thirty on Sunday by the sight of our two sons (3.5 yrs and 1.5 yrs)...
Historic Drag Video: A Trifecta of Great Footage From Green Valley Raceway
Green Valley Raceway was located in Smithfield, Texas, and operated from 1960-1986. The track was owned and operated by Bill Hielscher, the drag racer that most knew as “Mr. Bardahl” as...
eBay Find: A 1970 C-10 With 80 Original Miles
This simply has to be the lowest original mileage 1970 Chevy C-10 on the planet. Pulled out of a barn in Kansas, the seller came to own it after getting it from the estate of a man who passed away....
Craigslist Find: No Speed Racer Nooooooooooooo
Do you like acid? Do you like Corvettes? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, than we have a deal for you! For nearly thirty thousand of your hard earned dollars, you could be driving off...
Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Show in July
It’s not often that Christmas comes in July, but in 2010 that is exactly what happened. The reason is because the Mooneyes Christmas Show 2009 got rained out like a mother. So, Mooneyes decided...
Video: Hot Rod Magazine Hacks a Vette…And We Get to Help!
It’s not often that a story comes along in a magazine or online that really touches people. But when Hot Rod decided to tear up a perfectly good Cadillac, in the February 1987 issue of Hot Rod...
Update:DMC Racing nears completion on Repairs to Jason Enos’s Outlaw 10.5 Mustang
See our latest updates on this story at the bottom of this page. Part I: We were just about sick to our stomach when we heard that Jason Enos’s 1967 Mustang had caught a case of...
Great Rant: Auto Racing and the Economy
Lots of stuff we call a “rant” doesn’t really qualify. A rant has a major point but also contains great little tangents and sidebars. This piece, written by Larry VanZandt for...
