New Wrangling in the Jeremy Mayfield Case: Former Lawyer Seeks Almost 400K
Jeremy Mayfield’s former lawyer, Bill Diehl, has filed court paperwork seeking to recoup nearly $400,000 in unpaid legal fees. This must have been something Mayfield saw coming as he just held...
Craigslist Pick: Big Ass Motor with Big Ass Blower
We’ll admit right off the bat that this CraigsList motor for sale is not all that impressive of a horsepower maker. That sounds completely idiotic when we tell you that it makes 1,200...
Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Fire Burnout Video!
Mitch King is a name that should be familiar with any nitro-soaked drag racing fan. The man from Galveston, Texas, who owns a candy business, has a Fuel Altered, a couple of Top Fuel dragsters and a...
Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Insane Aussie Burnout with Unintentional Fire
Aussies seem to take their burnout contests seriously. We’ve shown you videos of guys rolling junk over, tires blowing to smithereens, and engines exploding during some of these competitions....
The Last Pontiac Rolls Off an American Assembly Line
Well, that’s the end of that. At 12:45 local time yesterday, the very last American-made Pontiac left an assembly line in Orion Township, Michigan. There was zero fanfare for the white, fleet...
1967 Mustang Falls to Third Place in the East African Safari Classic Rally
On the 24th we showed you the 1967 Mustang that was leading the 2009 East African Safari Classic, a rally event for cars 1974 and older. The news from yesterday (the 26th) is that the Mustang has had...
Video: An Incredible Save on the Sand Dunes
This one is oooold, but still entertaining. It appears to come from the Middle East. We know in Dubai they call stuff like this “dune bashing.” Over here we’d call it hill climbing....
The Mother Lode of Online Automotive Calculators
We were just trying to do some compression ratio math and came across the Wallace Racing site that has more car-related online calculators than we’ve ever seen in one place. Hell, we...
Abandoned Drag Strip History: Double H in Blue Ridge, Georgia, with Video
With today’s focus on nostalgia, it’s neat to see so many people starting to remember the drag strips of the past and digging out their historic photos and videos for all to see. It helps...
Roadside Find Guest Edition: Creepy Backwoods Lincoln Limo
Our pal Dave Wallace sent us an e-mail with the following photos attached. He shot them back in 2007 outside of York, Pennsylvania. This limo could be the longest one we have ever seen. It is without...
Carnage Video: Terrible Drag Racing Crash, Camaro Head-On Into the Wall
Kyle Loftis from 1320Video.com is a BangShift member, and he goes to all kinds of drag events to get galleries and videos for his site. The dude has been around so it’s real when he says,...
Video: Behind the Scenes at Hot Rod Drag Week with Jay Brown and his Amazing Fords
BangShift member Hemi Joel (Nystrum) may be a Mopar guy, but he’s also the frequent passenger in Jay Brown’s wild, class-winning, FE-powered Fords during the Hot Rod Drag Week races. Joel...
Texas Man Puts Turbine in Trunk of 1939 Ford Street Rod, Thinks it Can go 300 mph
We’re not quite sure where to start with this one. Maybe we’ll take a shot at the TV reporter for saying the car will be going to the “boon-ville” salt flats, or maybe at the...
