GM Offloading Pontiacs and Saturns at Near Fire Sale Prices
GM is doing everything in its power to get all the remaining Saturn and Pontiac models left on dealer lots sold. There are currently insane discounts being offered up to dealers so that they’ll...
Hot Rod Magazine Challenges Show Cars to Drive on Power Tour 2010
It seems like a good new year’s resolution to decide to drive your car instead of just polishing it. The guys at Hot Rod magazine are trying to push show-car owners in that direction with a new...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: 1952 Hot Rodding Propaganda Film Starring Santa Ana Drags and El Mirage Dry Lake
Here’s a neat film from 1952 that tells the story of Mel, a street speeder who gets a ticket, then loses the girl when he tries to recover his manhood by racing a jalopy, and loses, at CJ...
BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!
Out with the old and in with the new! It’s now 2010, and since we have a digital lampshade on our head right about now and don’t have a way to share the occasion with you personally, we...
Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!
In an amazing showing of bowling-ball sized stones, 26-year-old Travis Pastrana set the world record for a rally car jump on New Year’s Eve, flying his Subaru 269 feet over water and landing on...
Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California
Travis Pastrana has done so much bat-poop crazy stuff with cars that it reminds us that we should do a video compilation of it all. Until then, watch ESPN tonight to see if he succeeded with this...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965
It was very good to be Carroll Shelby in 1965. Hell, it is very good to be him now, but in the mid 1960s the man had the world by the stones. Bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company, Shelby was building...
More Changes At The Top Level of General Motors Management
Interim GM CEO Ed Whitacre is at it again. He’s made more changes at the top of the GM food chain by announcing that he would be replacing GM’s “Head of Government Relations”...
GM to Change Discount Policy for Employees
GM will make significant changes to their policy of giving employees who want to buy a GM model big discounts. In the current version of the plan, no vehicles are off limits, so the hot selling...
How Car Companies Come Up With Lame Car Names
There was a time when car names were decided by packing a bunch of advertising and marketing guys in a room with bourbon and cigarettes. When they ran out of both, the meeting was over. Back in those...
Hundreds of Drag Racing Images from Winnipeg, Canda’s Keystone/Bison Dragways
When we conjure thoughts of Winnipeg, Canada, which we admit is not often, drag racing is not normally on the list. Located above North Dakota, Winnipeg’s winters are harsh. It is actually...
War on Racetracks: New Jersey Track Sued by Anti-Noise Group
Call us alarmist if you want, but in following the news wires and getting tips from readers, it’s clear that racing facilities in this country are under attack. If you’ve been reading us...
Ebay Find: The Last Car To Come From Boyd Coddington’s Shop, The French Connection
The last car to leave the fabled shop of Boyd Coddington was this amazing creation called The French Connection. It was created as a tribute to the Delahaye T-165 roadster, a near unicorn of a car...
Cool Gearhead Spot: Doorthy’s Place
Nope, we didn’t spell that wrong. Doorthy’s Place is a neat little corner of the web that celebrates a dude who has a kick ass home shop where all his buddies hang out and wrench on their...
