Columnist Wonders Why Pony Cars Don’t Get Raced, Seems Unaware That They Do
Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Austen recently penned a column lamenting the fact that none of the Big Three’s pony cars get raced like they did in the old days. He has apparently missed the...
Cool Video: A Huge Custom Unimog Struts Its Stuff
Unimogs are bad ass 4x4s, and modified Unimogs are even better than that. This video shows a totally tricked out Unimog built by Couch Off Road Engineering for the firearms company Magpul Industries....
New Products: TCI Master Overhaul Kit for Ford 1980-1993 AOD Transmissions
More and more Ford guys are running the venerable AOD transmission behind their blue oval motors in high performance applications. The folks at TCI have introduced a neat master overhaul kit that...
eBay Find: A Wooden 1950’s Sports Car
We were stopped dead in our tracks when we laid eyes on their weirdly amazing car. It is a completely wooden sports car, powered by an odd-ball motorcycle engine, and sitting on a Citroen suspension...
Party at Big Daddy’s House and Everyone is Invited
We got wind of a cool car show coming up at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida and figured we’d pass the word along to anyone that can attend. It’s free to check out...
Announcing The First Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge, a High Speed Hillclimb
We love the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. They’re proud sponsors of BangShift.com and more than that, they are as hard core as they come in the gearhead world. They ran 330 mph with a...
Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County Fair
Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race...
Crazy Video: A Turbocharged Camaro That Hates to Have the Front Tires on the Ground
This incredible video, showing Texan Kevin Cram in his twin turbo’d Camaro, beats all we’ve ever seen. Powered by a Proline Race Engines-built big block Chevy, and obviously dialed in by...
New Aluminum LS Race Block From RHS
Forgive us if there is drool on the screen. We’re slobbering over this new cast aluminum LS race block from RHS. It features all the stuff that you’d expect from a hard core cylinder case...
Edwards to Face Punishment for Wrecking Keselowski on Purpose in Atlanta
When Carl Edwards lined up his ramming sights on Brad Keselowski’s car last weekend and sent him flying in the air toward the catch fence, NASCAR was faced with its first challenge to the...
Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Team Wins March Meet for the First Time
One of the biggest stories to come out of the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet was the epic Top Fuel victory of the Champion Speed Shop Van Dyke Motorsports team. Aside from this being the first ever...
Crazy Video: 8-second passes on a small tire and only 200ci
While it’s kind of impossible to call a race car a sleeper, we’d never guess that a Cortina packing 200ci of straight six Ford power would be uncorking 8 second lap times all day long....
Racing Junk Find: Killer 1963 Catalina Draggin’ Wagon
We’ve featured more than a couple drag race station wagons on these pages before but none have been as decorated as this killer 1963 Pontiac Catalina Super Stocker wagon. The car ran at the...
