Cool Suspension Video: Ride UNDER A 1988 Thunderbird As It Attacks The Autocross
We have not run a good “under car” suspension video for a while now and frankly, we’re sorry. The goal is to make up for lost time with this one, though. We’ll be riding under...
Shut Up, It’s A Great Idea: Furze’s Flame-Throwing Screw Tank Is Finished!
Imagine, just for a second, that you built something like this in the garage of your house. All your neighbors have heard for weeks on end is the sound of welding, of grinding, of drilling and...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Back On All Four Feet!
In case you missed our veiled update on Project Great Pumpkin, the 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia that has been in my wife’s family since new, here’s a rough synopsis: I had finally gotten off of...
Brakes For The Booger: Getting The Flooded F-150 Mobile
If you watch Ford ads of today, all they seem to tout is how the vehicle will do just about every ounce of driving for you. Scared of parking in a city? The Explorer will let you know when it has...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Our Final Gallery From The Blue Oval Troupe
The leaves are tinging, and soon they will be falling. The morning dew on the windshield is starting to frost up. Normally, this time of year is where the racing and the car shows end and we settle...
Mad Mike Whiddett And His 4-Rotor Mazda Wants To Rip Your Face Off – Listen To The Racket This Thing Makes
We have featured Mad Mike Whiddett’s antics here on BangShift before. The Aussie drifter has had a string of pretty angry rotary powered Mazdas and the car he brought to Goodwood in 2018 was no...
Video: The LeTourneau Sno-Freighter Was A Monstrous, Lumbering Pack Mule Designed For The Harshest Places On Earth
RG LeTourneau is a BangShift hall of famer for sure. The guy was an engineering and design genius and he came up with some of the coolest and most effective equipment ever built during his life. No...
Video: Hit And Miss Engines At Work – These Old Mills Revolutionized Life As The World Knew It 100+ Years Ago
(By Greg Rourke) – Hit and miss engines…no, I’m not referring to the engine I attempted to build for the slowest dragster in the Midwest. I’m referring to some of the earliest gasoline...
Video Bonanza: A Ton Of Great Television Ads for 1980s Gearhead Toys
As I speed toward my 35th birthday, I’ve been taking a little stock of my younger days. Growing up in the 1980s was a fun situation because there were so many awesome gearhead toys showing up...
In 1950s Germany They Towed Skiers Behind Porsches At 100mph For Fun (Video)
More than 60 years ago in Germany thrill seekers were hauling ass around road courses carved into snow with skiers hooked to the bumpers for bragging rights. We’re not talking about idling...
Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
If you have never treated yourself to the sound, speed, and fury of Supermodified racing on a circle track, you’re doing it wrong. These are the most beastly short track race cars in the world...
The Top 11 Worst Ever Special-Edition Vehicles
Oh the dreaded “special edition” car. In many ways it represents the worst part of the car-making business. These are packages born completely from the heads of people who count beans, sell ads,...
This Video Featuring A 1970s Chevy C10 From Brazil Proves How Universal Hot Rodding Is
While McTaggart has a fascination with the cool cars that Australians have gotten over the years I have gotten really interested in the iron of South America, specifically Brazil. Why? The stuff is...
