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Tim Wilkerson Suffers Strange Crash During NHRA Kansas Nationals Eliminations
Tim Wilkerson was chewing his way through eliminations on Sunday at the NHRA Kansas nationals when disaster struck and he suffered one of the strangest funny car crashes we have ever seen. We were at...
Anybody Like An Old Tow Truck? This 1978 Ford C600 Wrecker Is Cab-Over Greatness!
It’s short, stronger than an ox, with classic lines and a shape that is wholly distinctive. With a big V8 (either an “FT” or a 385-series 370ci big block) hooked to a set of deep...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Sorry, But Your Car Is A Health Hazard And Must Be Crushed
(Photos: Service Advisor Memes) For the sake of this piece, I’ll admit my faults: in one of my cars there are two empty water bottles and an empty Gatorade bottle in the backseat footwell and...
Bangshift Goes Hunting For Deals At The Annual South Shore Antique Auto Club Trading Bee!
Up here in the Boston MA area, we don’t have a lot of automotive flea markets and swap meets regularly like many other parts of the country do. For this reason, every gearhead in the area...
BangShift Goes Racing! Transforming A Cheap Street Car Into A 24 Hours of Lemons Racer!
Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...
A Herd Of Horses: A Breakdown Of The Ford Mustang’s Many Different Models
You could consider the Ford Mustang the best platform re-skin ever performed by an auto manufacturer. Ford already had a compact car in the form of the Falcon, but executives knew that in order to...
This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!
(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...
Wandering Colossus: This Former Big Foot Truck Went From Major Movie Stardom To The Corner Of A Florida Midway- How?
In today’s world few people likely remember the story of legendary boxer Joe Louis. The man had an incredible career that literally made him an American hero at its peak. Like many boxers he...
Muscle Mass: Big Horsepower And A Big Sticker Price – Does The 2016 Yukon Denali Deliver?
I’m always interested to see how the neighbors or my friends happen to react to a given test car or truck showing up at the BangShift eastern world offices. We have had some interesting stuff...
Bob Vandergriff Racing Disbands Top Fuel Team Effective Immediately – Shocking News
After the recent passing of C&J Energy founder and CEO Josh Comstock, many wondered aloud what the fate of Bob Vandergriff Racing would be. Comstock was the driving force behind...
Money No Object: If You Want A Brand New 1957 Jaguar XKSS Roadster, You Better Hurry…And Have Deep Pockets!
At the end of the 1956 racing season, Jaguar pulled out of factory competition, but faced a problem: there were still a handful of completed and partially completed Jaguar D-Type racing cars that...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Five-Point Plan To Happiness, Courtesy Of One Of The Angriest Guys Behind The Counter!
I am only just one person, one of millions who have manned the counters, the phones, the lifts, and spend every working hour interacting with both the public and the machines that the public relies...
Question Of The Day: How Do You De-grease Yourself After A Hard Day Of Wrenching?
It took you the better part of the day, cost you the skin on at least four knuckles, and fought you every step of the way, but the car is fixed, running better than ever, and you’re done in the...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: NO TOUCHY! UPCG Takes On The Strangest Corporate Policy Yet!
By nature, retail work is nearly robotic. On my end, I make sure the item you need is present and ready for you to acquire…for a fee, of course. I facilitate the purchase, I provide you with...