Speeding Tickets Actually Suck Worse in Some Other Countries
Speeding tickets suck no matter which way you cut it. Thanks to a tip from BangShift.com forum member TheSilverBuick, we now know that they suck far worse in some other countries than they do here....
Coming This Weekend: The Bangshift.com East Feast: Come on Down (or up)
It’s coming this weekend! The first annual BangShift.com East Feast is a get together for readers, forum members, friends, and hell, maybe even a couple haters, at beautiful and historic Beaver...
Event Gallery: Sidney, New York, Airport Car Show
BangShift.com Forum Member Mustang13 (Jeremy George) attended the Sidney, New York Airport Car Show and filed an awesome gallery of nearly 130 photos. This show has a little of everything, and...
Monday Time Killer: The Mexican Shelby Mustangs
We have to thank BangShift.com forum member Joes66Fury2 for the great tip on the DarkHorseRacing website telling the story of the Shelby Mustangs from South of the Border built from 1967 to 1972....
Engine Carnage from the BangShift Forums
This is the type of wreckage you don’t see every day. BangShift.com member BigBuds1 had his LT1 Camaro in full tire-fire mode when the engine gave way. He says he broke the crank, and that shot...
Cool or Not: You Decide
So we’re conflicted. Normally we dismiss weirdo, human powered, pod-like vehicles milliseconds after seeing them. This one is a special case, though. First off, it’s amphibious, and...
Racer and Cool Shirt Inventor Schafer Dies in Racing Accident
Here’s sad news from the world of racing, as we have learned that avid racer and the inventor of the Cool Shirt, Rich Schafer was killed in as accident while participating in a hill climb event...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: America Still Builds Some Bad Ass Stuff
Many of us often opine that America doesn’t make anything anymore. While it’s true we have shipped off a lot of manufacturing business to both our southward neighbors and to Asia,...
Connecticut Junkyard Owner in Hot Water
We can’t imagine being in the junkyard business these days. It cannot be easy. For decades it must have been pretty straightforward. Score a big tract of land way outside of town, put up a...
Oddball Barris Creation in Canadian Collection
We’ll be up front in telling you that we had no idea George Barris’s shop turned out anything other than the occasional beautiful kustom mixed among a majority of semi-garish stuff. We...
Great Read: A Look At Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Trucks
The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing series picked up where CORR left off. It’s a series featuring race trucks that weigh in at two tons and pack nearly 1,000 hp. The courses are winding, bending,...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: Oddly Painted VW Racer
Back in 1979, BMW had Andy Warhol paint an M1 race car that was to be run at Le Mans. Dubbed the “art car”, the machine went on to finish six overall at the race. It was the only time it...
Barn Find Wild ’70s Custom Road Runner for $3,000!
We picked up on this one via CarDomain via Chevelles.com. It’s the incredible story of a Road Runner that was parked since 1982, and that just sold for $3,000! It has a 383 and a four-speed,...
Bullpen Cars: A Short History
It’s Fall and that means one thing: Major League Baseball Playoffs! Hate sports you say? Don’t be so fast to take off. As we were watching some baseball we thought about a great story we...
