The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...
Dumbass Alert: Thieves Use Bulldozer to Steal ATM, Lose ATM
The media is always so inaccurate. When we saw the headline that thieves had used a “bulldozer” to steal an ATM in Detroit we were expecting to see a Caterpillar D8 in the middle of a...
Virtual Reality: Incredible Engine Renderings From Cosworth
The name Cosworth conjures up images of Formula One cars screaming around European road courses. It also conjures up the name of the rare Vega model that used an engine topped with a cylinder head...
Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price
Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...
Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage
With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds hurtling east to attack the salt with wall to wall coverage courtesy of Spectre Performance this year, we thought we’d remind you of all the greatness that...
Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes
Aeromotive has once again changed the fuel system game with the introduction of their Stealth System for 2003 1/2 and up Corvettes. This is a complete drop in fuel system that slides right into the...
Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon
We’re getting into Bonneville mode already as Speed Week has already gotten off the ground with tech inspection yesterday. We were planning on finding some clapped out junk Bonneville for Chad...
Barnstormin’: It’s About the Show, Stupid
With the recent announcement that New England Dragway will be leaving the IHRA to race under the NHRA banner in 2011, I’ve been thinking a lot about the format change that IHRA made coming into...
EcoRace: Roush Yates to Hot Rod EcoBoost V6 Engines for American LeMans Series
When Ford’s EcoBoost turbo V6 engine hit the shelves and dealerships, we were wondering if it would gain any traction as a racing engine at some point. It makes great power from the factory and...
Video Bonanza: Fun With Military Deuce and a Half 6×6 Trucks
The M35 family of trucks that have been serving the military for decades certainly do not get the amount of love that the little WWII-era Jeeps get with respect to their vital role in the service,...
Fact or Fiction? The Man Who Owned (and Drove) His Rolls For 82 Years
We received an e-mail the other day that told the story of a man named Allen Swift from Springfield, Massachusetts, who supposedly received a brand new 1928 Rolls Royce from his pop as a graduation...
Power Plants: Ford Rolls Out Four New Engines for F-150
Ford has announced a completely new engine lineup for the 2011 F-150. The engines range from the twin-turbo EcoBoost six cylinder to the rompin’ stompin’ 411hp 6.2L engine that was first...
eBay Find: An $11,000 Renault Alliance
When we plugged “Renault” into the search line on eBay we figured that an old 2CV or some other oddity would pop up. We figured wrong. The highest price item carrying the Renault tag on...
Video: Insane Flaming Engine Failure and Freefalling Crowd Killer
Oh man is this video nuts. Racing up sand dunes is a full-on motorsports frenzy in the Middle East and this video shows the absolute worst case scenario at a dune event. The hot roddy truck makes it...
