A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner
Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...
Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors
My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...
Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun
“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...
LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues
Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...
Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action
A while back we featured Wayne Sheeley’s crazy nuts Jeep FC-170 truck. It has been highly modified for off road action and was voted in by readers as a competitor at the wild Four Wheeler...
Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds
Everyone, it seems, even the auto company executives themselves, is perplexed as to why sales of cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger continue to troop onward and upward when the rest of new...
National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web
Today’s online column from National Dragster editor Phil Burgess is pretty interesting. He describes how, last year, he re-posted a bunch of vintage drag racing photos that he found on the HAMB...
Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More
Over at Moparts.com, a user called Devil has posted photos of his trip to Bloomington, Illinois, where some friends introduced him to a mystery man with a heart-stopping collection of rare Chryslers....
Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.
According to a story on MSNBC.com, the NHTSA’s reported 37,261 auto-related deaths last year were the lowest since 1961. Considering how many more cars are on the road now compared to 1961,...
A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck
By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive....
Roadside Find: 1931 Ford Model A Sedan Survivor
On a summer day trip to Maine with the kids, we were minding our business, walking down the sidewalk when the wonderful sound of a low compression flattie four filled our ears. We wheeled around...
Bangshift.com Says Thank You to all Veterans
We just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the BangShift.com readers who have previously served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Your sacrifices and hard work allow places like...
Pay Up Sucka: NASCAR Charges Crew Chief Big For Low Car
We have to laugh at this stuff. Every time we hear about a NASCAR team failing a post-race inspection we wait for the punchline that is the fine. It’s not a joke because the amount is so small....
Mooresville Dragway Owners Arrested on Drug Charges
Mooresville Dragway, a popular and well known North Carolina eighth-mile facility, was temporarily shut down last weekend when the track operators, a husband and wife, were arrested on drug charges....
