NASCAR to Tear Down Lowest Finishing Non-Wrecked Competitors
NASCAR has announced that they will begin tearing down the lowest finishing non-wrecked competitors at each race from here on out. This seems to be a move to force the so-called “start and...
Cool Video: Big Wheelstand From Hemi-Powered Willys Gasser
There are few things more iconic in the halls of hot rodding than a blown Willys Gasser. With rolling curves, bulging fenders, and propensity to swallow large motors at will, the Willys went from a...
RacingJunk Find: A Killer Vintage ’69 Vette Funny Car
With the March Meet coming up this weekend, our thoughts have turned to vintage drag racing. There’s going to be a 32-car field of nitro flops at Bakersfield so naturally we went daydreaming...
Crazy Video: Guy Gets Thrown Out of BMW While Blowing Donuts
The guys over at CarDomain pulled a wild piece of video from StreetFire showing a wanna be stunt man blowing donuts in an older BMW M3. He decides to up the “cool factor” by whipping the...
Car Show Gallery: The Texas Hot Rod Hoedown
We’ve got more great show coverage for you today. This time, nearly 200 photos from the Texas Hot Rod Hoedown courtesy of BangShift.com member Charles W (BOOGHAR on the boards). He’s the...
Gallery: The 2010 Big Three Swap Meet in San Diego, California
The Big Three Swap Meet has been going on since 1966 when a couple of car clubs got together to swap and sell parts in an old shopping center parking lot. Since then it has grown to fill the parking...
2010 Detroit Autorama Wrap-Up and Photos of the Hot Rodding Load-Out
OK, that’s it. We’ve covered every inch of the 2010 Detroit Autorama for three days, and tonight was the end of it with the traditional exiting of all the hot rods out of Cobo Hall and...
Tammy Ray’s 1933 Ford Phaeton Wins 2010 Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama
The 1933 Ford Phaeton of Tammy Ray has been awarded the 2010 Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama. The award, one of the most coveted in the world of hot rod building was bestowed on the car after...
The 2010 Detroit Autorama Great 8
The big deal for show car builders at the Detroit Autorama is to try and win the ultimate trophy, the Ridler Award. This was named for former show promoter Don Ridler and is presented to the best car...
857 Photos of the 2010 Detroit Autorama
We’ve been here at the 2010 Detroit Autorama for two days so far, soaking up the Midwest’s first big car get-together of the year and snapping photos until we’re ready to just saw...
BangShift.com to Provide Free Live Streaming Broadcast of the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet
BangShift.com is excited to announce that it will be carrying start-to-finish, free, live streaming video coverage of the 52nd March Meet from historic Auto Club Famoso Raceway in...
The Parting Shift: Pontiac Power and a Lenco
After hitting you with all the junk we did today, we owe you a strong finish and that’s what we will deliver. This video shows Jim Yanowski’s Pontiac powered Pontiac. It is a 3rd Gen...
The Detroit Not-o-Rama: You Knew There Would Be a Chopper Involved
Few vehicular trends over saturated themselves harder than choppers. Seemingly overnight, every small town in America had a chopper shop that was cranking out overpriced motorcycles assembled from...
The Detroit Not-o-Rama: A Mangled 1972 Mini Cooper
We thought it would be virtually impossible to make an old Mini Cooper uncool. Yeah, they are quirky little cars, but they have a racing heritage and are basically road legal go karts. Heck, we know...
