Colonnade CPR: Bringing A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Back To The Outside World
Aug 04, 2020Bryan McTaggart11
When I first saw it, I hated it. When I saw it with wheels that weren’t wearing Chevrolet Celebrity hubcaps, I started to come around. When I bought it in 2007, it spit the harmonic balancer...
The Everyday Supercar: We Cruise The Mind Boggling 2020 McLaren GT
Aug 03, 2020Brian Lohnes3
We’re normal guys around here. Obviously. If you have spent more than five minutes reading BangShift over the last 12 years you know that our tastes skew toward the low buck, the junkyard...
Power To Its Core: This Neat Demonstration Shows An Optima Battery Powering Its Own Deconstruction!
Aug 03, 2020Brian Lohnes2
Sometimes we all take for granted that everyone’s on the same page when it comes to the way that things work, right? For instance, when we talk about Optima batteries and tell you that they are...
Clean Sweep: Basically Every Hustling Japanese Sports Car On The Market Is Giving Way To A New Version
Aug 03, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Clean Sweep: Basically Every Hustling Japanese Sports Car On The Market Is Giving Way To A New Version
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of the old-school Japanese sports car. With the last Subaru BRZ, Nissan 370Z, and R35 Nissan GT-R rolling off the line...
Video From Inside A Tire While Driving Is Fantastic: A Weird View Of The Rolling World!
Aug 03, 2020Brian Lohnes2
This is about the wildest video that we have seen in a while. Mounting a GoPro INSIDE a tire and driving around is the type of stuff that can only happen in 2020, right? It would not have been long...
Mopar Freaks Rejoice! There Ain’t No Party Like A MoParty! Holley’s Inaugural MoParty Pre-registration now LIVE!
Aug 03, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Mopar Freaks Rejoice! There Ain’t No Party Like A MoParty! Holley’s Inaugural MoParty Pre-registration now LIVE!
Last year Holley went whole hog when they decided to have the Intergalactic Ford Festival in addition to Holley’s LSFest, but we knew more was coming. This year they’ve added a third...
Watching This Miniature Flat Plane Crankshaft Being Machined From A Piece Of Bar Stock Is Gearhead Zen
Aug 03, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Watching This Miniature Flat Plane Crankshaft Being Machined From A Piece Of Bar Stock Is Gearhead Zen
It may seem bizarre to say this out loud but some of the most honest and hardcore hot rodding in the world today happens in miniature engines. The guys who build these from scratch do not have a...
Morning Symphony: The Soundtrack Of LeMans
Aug 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
It’s been revised fifteen times in almost a hundred years of operation. It still uses sections of roadway that are normally open throughout the year for regular traffic. Chicanes be damned, the...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Trar – Luxury Wheeling!
Aug 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The “WTF?!” Files: 1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Trar – Luxury Wheeling!
I get the feeling that somebody in Crewe, England is going to puke if they ever catch wind of what I’m showing you right now. You see, Rolls-Royce isn’t just a car, or a brand. A Roller...
Propane Power! This 1960 International B-100 Is A Super Cool And Rare Workhorse!
Aug 03, 2020Tony Sestito3
Perusing the interwebs for old, weird stuff is one of our favorite pastimes here at BangShift. Today, we found something that’s equal parts strange and awesome, and I’ll be honest, I had...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: It’s All Bad!
Aug 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Another week down in the Year That Just Won’t End! We’re in the last month of summer before things start winding down and the weirdness takes over. We’ve got races to...
Rowdy And Ready: 1994 Ford Ranger Splash With 460 Power Under The Hood
Aug 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
The Ford Ranger Splash was one of the many trucks that hit the scene in the early 1990s with stepside beds. Was it supposed to be hip? Was it supposed to be sporty? Well, it was a Ranger,...
BangShift Top 11: Best First Car Options For The Ungrateful Little Brat!
Aug 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
So, one of the stories that went flying around the Internet this week was a report from the IIHS and Consumer Reports that was a list of the best cars for Mom and Dad to get a teenager for their...
The Colonial Classic Bracket Race Is LIVE From Virginia Motorsports Park!
Aug 02, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Colonial Classic Bracket Race Is LIVE From Virginia Motorsports Park!
The crew at Virginia Motorsports Park is one of the best in the business, and they were fully set for this weekend’s 7th Annual Colonial Classic, when the rain came. Friday was a wash out as...












