2009 Hot Rod Drag Week Wrapup
OK, so it’s like weeks after the end of the 2009 Hot Rod Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors. After covering the race for a solid week, I’ve almost caught up on sleep. Probably not. But...
Event Coverage: 2009 Jax Wax Show and Shine, Michigan
BangShift.com member Joe (Joe Lopez) gave us a photo gallery of the 2009 Jax Wax show and shine held October 9 at the Dawg House Restaraunt in Clinton Township, Michigan. There seems to have been a...
Carnage Video: 13 Crashes in 13 Months as Trucks Smash Themselves Topless Under a Low Bridge
There exists a rail road trestle in Durham, North Carolina. Said trestle only has 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance. Lots of trucks are 12 feet high and taller, so this presents a large problem. The...
Meet the Record Holding Infidel Streamliner: 330 MPH With a Cadillac Engine
Boys and girls, say hello to the record holding AA/BGS (Blown Gas Streamliner) Infidel streamliner run by the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. It’s powered by a twin-turbocharged 529ci...
Australian Cops are Confiscating Cars at a Record Pace
Police in the city of Werribee in Australia have confiscated more than 60 cars in the last nine months due to driving violations. We’ve blogged before about the stringent road laws down under,...
Can Racing Go Green?
We ran across an interesting editorial at Just-Auto.com that looks at how racing is starting to adopt some “green” tendencies and how the increased demand and awareness of hybrids and...
Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn’t Be Mocked
The recent arrest of JC France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., has made for big conversation all across the Internet. As could be expected, most of the comments have not been all that...
Video of the Joyride Fail Du Jour: Kid Drives Daddy’s Porsche Off a Cliff
We caught wind of this wild story through our pals over at the CarDomain blog and we had to share it here. Yesterday it was the 15 year old kid getting his parent’s Blazer stuck in a mud hole....
Advice: Don’t Get Drunk and Steal an Ambulance
We’re on a joy ride kick with our blog items lately. So sue us. Some of these incidents are just too good to skip over. Take this one for example: A college kid in Kansas heads out for a night...
Site of the Week: TradeMe.co.nz, like CraigsList for New Zealand
We’ve got to thank BangShift.com forum member Hairy for the tip to this pretty cool New Zealand based website. Think of it like CraigsList for Kiwis. We honed into the specialty vehicle section...
The New York Times Covers the Antique Automobile Club of America Fall Hershey Meet
The Antique Automobile Club of America’s Eastern Division National Fall Meet, held in Hershey, Pennsylvania, since 1975, was last weekend, and the New York Times, of all media outlets, was...
Epic Joyride Fail: Kid Gets Stuck in Mud and Rescue Teams Are Involved
We’ll admit to once taking our dad’s four wheel drive truck out for a spin in the mud when he was on vacation with our mom years back, but we had a license. Oh yeah, and the fire...
Guy Joyrides Locomotive, Gets Probation
A 22-year old Florida man was given three years of probation after stealing a locomotive and taking it on a seven-mile joy ride. The guy is described as being a train enthusiast and he’s...
BangShift.com Is Now on Facebook. Come Be a Fan!
As much as we never in a jillion years would have expected us to be saying these words, yes, we are now on Facebook. It turns out that it’s not just for junior-high girls, because there are a...
