On This Day: The Lindal Railway Incident, or How To Make A Locomotive Disappear Forever
“There’s a hole, there’s a hole…there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea…” It was one of my favorite cadences in the Army, about a hole that fit damn near...
Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck
We’re definitely fans of the RideTech StreetGrip line of suspension systems. We have installed them here at BangShift we have driven cars with them installed and we have come away understanding...
Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?
(By Tom Lohnes) – The kind folks at Kylotonn provided a review copy of WRC Championship 9, their biggest racing title and a game I was excited to try out. My excitement was not wrong, because...
A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed
To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...
Pro Touring Vs Germany: A Killer 1966 Mustang Takes On A Porsche 911 Turbo S At The Streets Of Willow!
Well this is a fun surprise! A couple years back, I was part of a show for Motor Trend called “Put Up or Shut Up”. It went for two seasons and the idea behind the show was simple. Race...
Nitro Time Machine: The Day Don Campanello Tasted Pro Stock Glory At The 1986 Gatornationals
Don Campanello was a 1980s pro stock racer from New Jersey who was a stalwart on the tour, especially for the eastern parts of it. He was not a guy who necessarily had the raw horsepower of someone...
Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury
When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...
Money No Object: 1985 Crown Supercoach Tandem With Cummins 855 Big Cam
For the six years I spent attending school in the Pacific Northwest, I rode on a very different bus than I had ridden prior to. In Illinois, the school buses were Chevrolet and GMC 60-series...
Tiny Adventures: Going Overlanding In Hopped-Up Power Wheels
For the last couple of years, we’ve been showcasing the builds that the guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have been putting out, especially the ones that involve a Power Wheels toy, a ton of...
Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...
Project Bargain Racement: Building A Race Car From An $1100 Hatchback. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Come on, you’ve had to have heard dummer ideas than this! And it won’t surprise you to know that our friends from Bad Obsession Motorsports, the home of Project Binky, are behind this...
Rough Start: 1996 Ford Probe – Funny Name, Serious Business
When Ford decided that the rear-drive Fox chassis Mustang would get a stay of execution in the later 1980s, the car that had been tapped to replace it, a front-driver sport coupe developed with...
Racing Carnage: Watch As This Mitsubishi Eclipse’s Transmission Explodes During A Run
Collin Willshire is the owner of Jett Racing and the badass 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse in this video. Don’t snicker at the idea of a badass Eclipse, this car has claimed the title of the fastest...
