The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Is All Internal Combustion, All The Money, and Not That Bad On Gas!
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you have a spare four million dollars lying around? Do you care about fuel economy? If you do, you would be buying a Ferrari FXX K, Porsche 918 RSR, or a Mclaren P1 GTR...
NHRA Insider Podcast: The Funny Car Strongman And Some Big 2020 Numbers
Matt Hagan joins Brian Lohnes on this week’s episode of the NHRA Insider podcast and talks about his 2020 NHRA Camping World Funny Car Championship season. The ups, the downs, the motivating...
Killer Coyote: Watch As A 315ci Ford Coyote Engine With A 3.8L Whipple Blower Makes 2,000+ HP On The Dyno
Chris Holbrook is known far and wide in drag racing circles as a guy who can build basically any combo of engine into a beastly class mangler. I have personally seen his work in a multitude of drag...
The Desert Truck Of Your Mopar Dreams: This Dodge Bodied Class 8 Baja Truck Is Nearly Done – Unique And Awesome!
Chad’s usually the certified Baja racing freak around here but when I laid eyes on this model done, Dodge bodied class 8 Baja truck I could not stop staring. The project was started and nearly...
Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!
It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the...
Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Sending The Year Off With Screaming Engines
The one thing that stands out about Ratty Muscle Cars events isn’t that the cars are wicked fast, or that they are just rough versions of dream machines. It’s that they are used and not...
Spin Cycle FTW! Check Out This Collection Of AWD Donuts!
Up until the last couple of years, the only AWD vehicle that I had ever spent a good amount of time actually driving it was a black Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. It belonged to an aunt, and every now and...
Meet The Man Who Built A Replica Of An Audi Quattro S1 E2 So Well That Racer Who Drove It Got Goosebumps
In late 1985, Audi unleashed the Sport Quattro S1 E2. Or, in simple terms, the wildest, most violent form of the Audi Quattro rally car to be set loose in World Rally, period. After having endured a...
Intake Intensity Video: Watch Four Intake Manifolds Get Tested On A 600hp LS Engine
This video is a total model of speed and efficiency. You are going to see four LS intake manifolds run in about five minutes and all four of them have their performance data included from the dyno...
A Longer Long Block: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Gets A Head – One Step Closer
The saga of the Hagerty Buick Straight eight build is not over yet but it’s moving in that direction. This engine has been a protracted battle from the jump and the cool thing is that the...
The Race To Nowhere: This Footage From The 1927 Dole Air Race Is Creepy – The Last Flight For Many
The 1927 Dole Air race will forever live as one of the most tragic examples of bravado preceding technology ever. The event was funded by James D Dole of pineapple empire fame. After Charles...
Goodbye, Jim: Ride With Jim Pace At Road America In An Can-Am Car – We Remember A Racer Gone Too Soon
I never actually met Jim Pace. If you look back at the BangShift archive of stories you will see his name all over the place. We ran dozens and dozens of videos of Jim competing at places like...
Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Welcome To A Day Full Of Surprises
Everything that occurred this past weekend in Alabama should not have happened. T-shirt weather with sunny skies is something that does not happen this late in the year. Postcard-worthy drives in...
Classic YouTube: “Autocrossing” At Alveringem – Small Cars, Muddy Field, Big-Time Fun!
Doing muddy laps in a farmer’s field sounds less like an actual race and more like something I may or may not be guilty of doing in some beater car, but apparently in Europe it is perfectly...
