Classic YouTube: Drifting A Suzuki Swift, One Way Or Another! Hooning A Beater Never Looked So Fun!
I have a weird respect for the Suzuki Swift and it’s USDM cousin, the Geo Metro. When they were being sold, I couldn’t make enough jokes about those cars…tiny hatchbacks always...
Tire Destruction Magnificence: This Rat Motored Toyota Hates Mud Tires And Destroys Them In BangShifty Fashion
(By Jason Mazzotta) – Burnouts, fire, superchargers, donuts, and noise are everything car fanatics love and this video has it all in one crazed package known as BLWNLUX. Brett Battersby of...
Street Car Super Nationals 16 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here With More Great Action Photos
Street Car Super Nationals 16 is in the books, but that doesn’t mean our coverage is done. Not by a long shot, as there are tons of photos we’ve been downloading after shooting all the...
BangShift Book Corner: Hurst Equipped – Factory-Special Muscle Cars, Speed Parts, and Legendary Race Cars by Mark Fletcher and Richard Truesdell
We’re back with another new title from the people at CarTech and this one hits us right between our muscle car loving eyes. The book, “Hurst Equipped: Factory Special Muscle Cars, Speed...
12 Barrel: This 1960s Edelbrock Intake Manifold Plunks Six Ford 2-BBL Carbs On Your Pontiac!
We’re not sure we have ever seen a Pontiac engine that NEEDED this much induction or carburetor on top of it, especially naturally aspirated but this is one bad ass looking intake manifold. We...
Under Pressure: The Story of Bill Lear’s Steam Powered Race Car That (Never) Ran The Indy 500
Bill Lear will go down as one of the most incredible inventors of the 20th century. The man who created the car radio, miniature tuning coils for radios, who invented auto-pilot, radio guidance for...
Watch The Brazilian Opala Metal Run 5.33 In The Eighth And The End Up Stopping On A Jungle Path!
The Opala was one of GM Brazil’s most popular models having been produced from 1969 through 1992. Over the years it evolved and changed but through it all, people loved the cars. As has...
Watch This Crazed Off-Road Nova Scream Up A Hill Climb While Catching Air – Who Is This Masked Man?!
We need your help! Thanks for a tip from BangShifter Christon Gerber we have video of a guy named Doug Smith hammering up a (dirt) hill climb that was held in Lisbon, Ohio. This is not the bendy,...
Teutonic Tank: The New Mercedes S-Class Is Horsepower, Luxury, and Technology On Full Display
(By Tom Lohnes) – For decades now the Mercedes S-class and all of its variants have been the pinnacle of build quality, luxury, and all-around German engineering. This new generation of...
That’s Novel: This 11-Second Jeep Wrangler TJ Looks Pretty Much Stock…Minus The Turbocharged Barra Six!
It’s not that we haven’t seen fast Jeeps before…LSX Willys immediately springs to mind, as does the “Holy Toledo” Jeep funny car from back in the day. And that’s...
Cool Vans, Weird Tagline: This 1979 Dodge Van Commercial Gives The Model Line Up And A Weird Pitch
While the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back to another scourge that came over the landscape, this one little more than 40 years ago and it was known as vanning. All of a sudden...
Plug In Or Get Paid Out: Cadillac Is Putting A Half-Mil On The Table For Dealerships Who Don’t Want To Go All-In On EVs
If GM is going to have their way, Cadillac’s will be quieter than they ever have been by 2030, with the top-tier GM badge ditching the German target they’ve had since the late 1990s and...
Draggin’ Ass: The 1991 Isuzu Rodeo Was As Slow As You Remember It – Talk About A Barge!
Tall tires, tall gears, and a 3.1L throttle body injected V6 from GM all added up to one of the slowest vehicles I remember riding in as a high school kid. In fact, it was so slow in my mind that I...
Faster Yet: Stevie Fast Jackson Talks About Being A Back To Back NHRA Pro Mod Champ – Loses 11lbs In The Process!
We live in an interesting time of racing history. There are lots of guys who have been groomed, trained, and educated as racing drivers, no matter the sport but they might not actually be...
