Craigs List Find: A 1968 AMC Rebel With an Awful Secret
We were delighted to find a kick ass (looking) 1968 AMC Rebel for sale on Craigslist. Our elation was elevated by the fact that the car was located just a town over from our east coast offices. We...
New BangShift.com Project: The 1992 Donkayota Wagonmaster
BangShift.com is proud to announce a new in-house project that we’re calling the Donkayota Wagonmaster. It is the brain child of both Brian Lohnes and Chad Reynolds, the two guys behind the...
Hilarious Video: The Old Driverless Van Trick
We’ve obviously been having some fun with it being April Fool’s Day and all, but this clip from a Canadian comedy television show is truly good stuff. A troup of people manipulate a...
Six Turbo Ford EcoBoost on the Way to Fight GM Entry
Ford boss Alan Mulally was front and center at a media day conference at the 2010 New York Auto Show yesterday, revealing plans for a six turbo EcoBoost engine that will “kick the snot”...
NASCAR Announces Creation of the Pride Jazzy Legends Series
After a wreck at Bristol that left two NASCAR veterans wounded and hospitalized during a “legends race” the series has taken an interesting approach to preventing a similar outcome in the...
Bruton Smith Buys Memphis Motorsports Park, Plans Multi-Level Drag Strip
In an announcement that has sent shock waves through the drag racing world, Bruton Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., told a throng of reporters that he has purchased the currently defunct...
83 Years Ago The 200 mph Barrier Was Broken on Daytona Beach
We missed the anniversary by a couple of days, but 83 years ago Henry Seagrave drove a monsterous, purpose built, 1,000hp car built by Sunbeam in England to a speed of 203 mph. This was the first car...
State Troopers Stop Runaway Horse and Buggy, Neither Horse Nor Buggy Made By Toyota
We don’t think NHSTA will be getting involved in the investigation of this runaway vehicle because the root cause may have been an errant bag of oats, but Pennsylvania state troopers recently...
Caption This Photo: An Organically Grown Mustang
BangShift field photo agent and forum member Joe Grippo recently posted this hilarious photo of a Mustang springing forth from the ground. It’s totally ripe for some captioning action. We...
Dyno Video: A Boss 429 Screaming to Be Let Out
The Boss 429 was certainly a bad hombre from Ford back in the day. As we told you a while back, there are companies where you can now buy new crate versions of the blue oval monster to bolt in your...
Kid Crashes Camaro, Gives Cops Flimsy Story, and They Seem to Buy It
When we read about two high school kids in a Camaro wiping out a fire hydrant in California we thought the kids were in for it legally. We then read the story that they gave the coppers about the...
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....
