Watch Sammy Miller Try To Run Over 300mph In The Eighth At Under Two Seconds….On A Road Course In The Netherlands
Sammy Miller’s exploits have been often written, raved, and ranted about here on BangShift. The guy was known and loved all over the world as the king of the rocket powered drag races deep into...
Go For A Lap of Road America in a Jerico Equipped 1970 Mustang Road Racer
This sweet, sweet hunk of video goodness takes us to the historic road racing course known as Road America. We traverse the course courtesy of a bad Larry 1970 Mustang. The car sounds beautiful and...
From Revival To Restoration: Starting Work On A Flood Victim 1978 Ford!
It’s sat underwater, without a doubt. The contents of the oil pan and oil filter said as much. If that wasn’t enough proof, this 1978 Ford F-150 barfed out some rank, rusty water from the...
Random Car Review: 1971 International Harvester 1010 “Johnnie Reb”
(Lead photo: Chris Castoldi) It isn’t every day that I find a vehicle that I know exactly nothing about, one that I have never heard of in my lifetime, one that even according to die-hard fans...
That’ll Wake You Up: Car Explodes At Gas Station Thanks To Leaking Acetylene Tank
(Photos: Ryan Welch) In a combined 26 months of time spent in Iraq, both times in heated, tense months where things were very volatile, hearing bomb blasts was a common occurrence. Mortar shells just...
Rough Start: 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle That Looks Very Familiar To One Of Us…
The moment I saw the listing for this 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle, a meme popped into my head: “It’s called ‘karma’, and it’s pronounced ‘Ha-Ha, F*** You!'”...
Basic Bad Ass: This K30 Is A Diesel Powered, No Frills, Wheeling Machine – Watch It In Action
There’s nothing wrong with liking fancy things. Hey, we occasionally like to put sprinkles on our ice cream so we know exactly what the finer things in life are. This K30 is not one of those...
Great Sleeper: A Buick Regal GS Laying Down Twelves On A Tune Night
I know that people I used to work for and with back in my military days read the stuff I write. They have ever since I posted up my ode to the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter that I used to wrench on...
Historical Footage: Head-To-Head Crash Testing A 1982 Mustang Vs. A 1982 Plymouth TC3
Digging through old NHTSA footage brings up a strange trend in the early 1980s: these guys loved to crash-test Fox Mustangs into whatever car they could nose up against it. Why the Mustang? Was it...
Spinning In The Rain: When NASCAR Put The Drivers In The Wet
It’s the running joke against NASCAR: How can a sport that has history dating back to good ol’ boys from the American South, moonshiners and the like, wind up scared of a spot of rain?...
NASCAR Nitrous Party: Cleetus Takes The Dale Truck To The Dragstrip!
“If you don’t cheat, you look like an idiot. If you do it and you don’t get caught, you look like a hero. If you do it and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me in the category...
8 Ton Sledge: Gar Wood’s 7,000hp Miss America X Boat Owned The World In ’32 and ’33 (Video)
If there is one giant in the history of American speed that I’d give anything to meet it would be Gar Wood. The guy made immense amounts of money in his life inventing stuff like the hydraulic...
Carlisle Ford Nationals 2020: From The Basic To The Baddest
(Photos: Joe Grippo) Fun fact: not every car on the planet needs to be a rolling testament to testosterone, roid rage and loud rock music to be interesting. Most cars aren’t. Plenty are...
The Last Dinosaurs: The Story Of The Northwestern Steel and Wire Steam Locomotives That Worked Until 1980!
(By Greg Rourke) – Long after steam was dead on most railroads, a few soldiered on. No, we don’t mean on tourist trains and such. These were working hard in a very non glamorous task....
