Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...
Crazy Turbine Powered Honda Motorcycle
BangShift.com forum member Eagle Kammback posted a link to this totally wild Boeing T-50 Turbine powered Honda motorcycle in the forum section and we just had to throw it up here on the front page....
Buy Jeremy Mayfield’s Stuff Online
On November 20th, the will be an auction of former NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield’s estate and personal items. Up until now, you’d have had to have been on site to buy stuff. Now, through...
Book Review: The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles by Colin Comer
Say the name Carroll Shelby among a group of car guys and the response you’ll get will be as varied as the day is long. There are the worshipers, the haters, the historians, and those who...
Australian Hoon Driver Uploads Incriminating Video Complete with License Plate Number
When will these guys learn? Yet another Australian driver has gone out tearing around town with his video camera and then uploaded the video on YouTube. Problem? Hell yeah, because the video...
Brad Kaselowski Read Riot Act by NASCAR Before Race
Brad Kaselowski was called to a private meeting with NASCAR officials before Sunday’s race, according to an Associated Press story. The meeting centered around Kaselowski’s agressive...
Louisiana Schools Adding Trade Education Option
In a laudable move, some schools in Louisiana are adding trade education classes back into their curricula in an effort to stem dropout rates. The classes, featuring stuff like welding, are part of...
Event Coverage: Pistons and Paint Numero 8
Big thanks to BangShift.com forum member BigDad for providing us this gallery from the Pistons and Paint Numero 8 show in Denton, Texas, on November 14, 2009. The show has humble origins as a small...
Report: NHRA To Sanction Tracks Worldwide
Respected drag racing journalist Rob Geiger is reporting that the NHRA will be sanctioning drag strips in the Middle East in the neat future. This is huge news in the sense that the organization will...
EBay Pick of the Week: Wild Blown Hemi Powered Street Legal Bantam Altered
If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, we share the same mental illness. Our thought process when we laid eyes on this wild hunk of iron jumped directly to Hot Rod’s Drag Week. It...
Monday Time Killer: Tons of Bonneville Pics From the Last 10 Years
This week’s Time Killer will have you spending some quality time on the salt at Bonneville. We happened upon this major league collection of photos while doing some research on another story...
Columnist: NHRA Rules and NASCAR Sucks
Jeff Wolf is a highly respected columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. He often has interesting takes on the worlds of drag racing and Stock Car racing. He never spares the rod when he...
Mendy Fry Set to Haul the Mail in Pomona This Weekend
The end of the NHRA season is upon us once again. It all comes to a screeching halt this weekend in Pomona, Califoria, at the Auto Club Finals. Aside from the normal slate of Sportsman and Pro racing...
Living Legends of Auto Racing Ripped Off By Rogue Employee
The Living Legends of Auto Racing is an organization that works hard to preserve the history of racing on Daytona Beach and of all the the pioneers of Stock Car racing. Unfortunately for them, the...
