Epically Awesome Video: Firing Up a Twin Engine Nitro Harley In the Driveway
We’ve found a new personal gearhead hero. Whoever this guy is, he rules. Anyone who can claim ownership of a twin-engine, Harley-powered nitro bike is already walking among titans, but to have...
Firebird Raceway is Resurfacing Its Track to the Tune of $200K
After suffering from a problem filled early season that culminated with an NHRA national event that one drag racing journalist dubbed, “The Disaster Nationals,” Firebird International...
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo, Norm Weekly, and One Bad Ass Bucket
It’s a rare video that manages to tell the personal story of someone you’ve never met and keep you riveted to the screen. We caught wind of this piece of YouTube awesomeness through a tip...
Hot Selling Camaro Makes for Good Times at GM Oshawa, Ontario, Plant
Employees at GM’s Oshawa, Ontario assembly plant have good reason to be happy. Because of the new Camaro and a couple of other strong selling models, they have the one thing that auto industry...
The Greatest $250.00 Craigslist Find Ever
While it may seem that we’re all work and no play here at BangShift.com, we entertain ourselves just like every other greasy gearhead out there. We troll for deals all over the place and...
AutoTrader Classics Find: A 1990 Lamborghini LM002
With only 301 examples produced over a seven year run, you may have never seen a Lamborghini LM002 SUV before. The good news is that once you lay eyes on one, even concentrated acid won’t wash...
Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air
This is a pulling event we have to try! It takes place on asphalt and is completely basic in nature. There’s a sled with concrete blocks chained to a truck and the truck’s job is to drag...
RacingJunk Find: A ’56 Pontiac Chieftain Drag Car
After seeing all that cool stuff at the Hunnert Car Shootout, we decided to go looking for an awesome, old school racer for ourselves. We piled through all sorts of ’55 through ’57...
Monday Time Killer: The Mother Load of Info on 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC Trucks
We’re not going to say that 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC trucks are unloved, but we will say that they are under-loved when compared to trucks of the previous generation and the following 1967-1972...
Historic Carnage Video: Major Wreckage On the Old Beach Course At Daytona
We unearthed this radical ancient video of Modified jalopies whooping it up on the Daytona Beach circle track in the late ’40s or early ’50s. These guys really thrashed the cars, almost...
Event Coverage: The 2010 Hunnert Car Shootout from Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove, Wisconsin
The Chrome Czars car club of Chicago put on the second annual Hunnert Car Shootout. These are the same guys who host and run the humongo Hunnert Car Pileup retro-rod show. Think of this as a...
The Parting Shift: Stretching the Legs of a Dual Quad 1964 Buick Wildcat
This week’s Parting Shift is a change of pace. We’re stepping away from the race track and all the transmission violence in favor of some good old fashioned muscle getting a leg stretch....
Crazy Video: An Alky-Burning Drag Race Lawn Tractor
You’d laugh at us if we told you that there are lunatics out there racing 100hp, alky burning, two-step equipped lawn tractors. Impossible, right? Wrong. The escaped mental patient driving the...
NHRA Unleashed Teams Up with ORSCA
NHRA has teamed up with the Outlaw Racing Street Car Association to solidify the racing operations end of the new “NHRA Unleashed” series. This four-race series will feature heads-up...
