Project Car Spotlight: A 538ci Cadillac Powered 1953 Studebaker Champion Starliner
This could be the coolest, most well executed car ever constructed under a car port ever. BangShift.com forum member 53 Studillac purchased a 1953 Studebaker Champion Starliner a few years back that...
Bitchin Roadtrip: Coast to Coast in a $1000 Beater
When our boy Chris (65longroof on the BangShift.com forums) told us about a killer website featuring cars for sale that are all under $1000, we were intrigued. Hell, we like cheap junk, just look at...
Event Coverage: The Spectre Performance 341 Challenge
The first ever Spectre 341 Challenge is in the books and the results surpassed anyone’s expectations. More than 24 cars ranging from exotics to muscle cars to a 1952 DeSoto made many trips up...
BangShift Tech: 700-R4 Transmission Rebuild Part One
Jeff Bradley, known as IndyShiftman on the BangShift.com forums owns and operated a transmission shop in the Indianapolis, Indiana area. He’s become our de-facto source for transmission info,...
Event Coverage: NHRA Motorsports Museum Twilight Cruise
Southern California residents are pretty lucky because they have tons on cruise nights and hot rod events to attend all year long. One of the must attend shows is the first Wednesday Twilight...
Great Read: In the Cockpits of The World’s Coolest Vehicles
Part of the whole driving experience is the physical setting that it is happening in. Sprawled across the bench seat of your boulevard bruiser or cinched down into a racing seat in a competition car,...
Ultimate Hot Rod: US-Built Scramjet Runs Mach 5 in Testing
Back on May 26, 2010 the X-51A WaveRider, an unmanned aerial vehicle (didn’t we used to called them planes?) ran for more than three minutes at full throttle, or five times the speed of sound...
Car Feature: Gary Harris’s Killer 1965 Ford Falcon
When we were prowling the pits at Beech Bend Raceway looking for feature cars during the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, one of the first cars we needed to find was this 1965 Ford Falcon owned...
Project Car Spotlight: An Odd-Ball Mopar Project That We Love
If you are a regular reader of BangShift.com you know that we really love dirty, hands-on projects. Bonus points are usually awarded if said project involves an off-beat, under loved, out of the norm...
Sweet T: Ingeune Buick Funny Car Shirts Now Available!
One of the neatest gearhead stories of the last few years is that of John Lipori and Ingeune, the Buick bodied and powered funny car has dad raced in the late 1960’s. John managed to buy the...
NHRA Sanctioned Track for Sale: Yellowstone Drag Strip
There seems to be a plethora of drag strips coming up for sale recently. We last told you about Abilene Drag Strip in Texas, and we’re back with another piece of high performance real estate....
Barnstormin’: Requiem for a Dead Man’s Tools
At some point it will happen to every one of us. The tools are still willing but the flesh is not. What happens then? Maybe a family fight over their value, maybe a smooth transition of a...
Site of the Week: RaceFansTV.com
We were tipped off to the existence of a new web video site called RaceFansTV.com by one of our loyal BangShift.com readers. After clicking the link we were blown away with the amount of video, info...
Dyno Video: Team Vesco’s 800hp Small Block Bonneville Chevy
With Bonneville action creeping ever closer this summer, teams are readying their hot rods for the yearly racing ritual on the salt. One of those teams is the well known organization known as Team...
