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...
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...
