Gag Us: Tesla Wins Lamest Auto Race In History
There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned, unabashed, stroke job news story. We found a great one touting the Tesla’s win at the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. The race is...
Insane Fail Video: How Not to Right a Tipped Over Tractor Trailer
This is one of the flat out nuttiest fail videos we have ever seen. It’s from a foreign country, which one we have no idea, and there’s lots of screaming and yelling in languages we...
New Sponsor: ProCharger brings Boost to BangShift.com
As you have undoubted noticed, BangShift.com has brought another new and exciting sponsor into the fold! We are proud to announce that ProCharger, The Ultimate Power Adder, has joined BangShift.com....
Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water
Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the...
eBay Find: The World’s Most Expensive Quadrajet Carb
We like to torture ourselves by searching for our dream cars occasionally. One of the cars we like looking for among the fleet we’d love to have is the ’73-’74 SD455 Firebird. They...
Carnage Video: Guy Stuffs a Viper in a Line of Traffic
To set the scene, you’re out bombing around in your Viper, maybe even with a hottie in the passenger seat. Traffic is heavy, but you are slicing and dicing like Fangio. Life is good, and as...
Killer Parts: A Vintage Edelbrock SY1 Smokey Ram
When we recently got a call from our pal and fellow BangShifter Mike Casella of Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts, informing us that he had something we “needed to see”...
Ford Brings “One Ford” Concept to Drag Racing and John Force racing to Lead Contingent
In two related pieces of drag racing news from FoMoCo, it was announced that John Force Racing has signed on for another five years of corporate backing from the blue oval crowd, and that...
Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power
Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old...
SEMA Action Alert: California Bill Could Expand Specialty Constructed Registrations
Some good news came to us by way of the SEMA newswire. It seems that there is a bill being considered by the California legislature that would increase the allowed number of “specialty...
The History of Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip of Middle Valley
We found a neat story from Chattanoogan.com that gives the history of Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. We like to think that the problems associated with opening a strip with respect to noise, community...
RacingJunk Find: A Kick Ass 1955 Chevy Pro Mod
After spending the weekend immersed in the WCHRA action from Bakersfield, we thought we’d go door slammer shopping. We found a totally bitchin’ blown 1955 Chevy Pro Mod for sale that is...
Smoke Show Video: A 1993 Dodge Daytona Goes Out in a Fog of Glory
Let’s say that you have a 1993 Dodge Daytona that has thrown a rod and is emotionally dead to you. There are a couple of options to move on at that point. At least two of them involve a tow...
