BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is Your Partner In Crime In Your Misadventures?
I’ve only been writing about the stuff I do within my capabilities since 2014 in an official manner. Prior to that, you had to follow me around on the Internet, on about forty different forums,...
Between Muscle And Malaise: 1972 Ford Gran Torino
In each and every line of vehicle that was available at the time that could be considered a muscle car in any way, shape or form, there is a point where you see the muscle die and the malaise take...
Cleetus McFarland Almost Poops Himself Riding In Finnegan’s Game Over Jet Boat!
You’ve seen Mike Finnegan’s killer 700 plus cubic inch, 1,700 + horsepower, twin-turbo jet boat named Game Over on here before and we love the thing. It is sick, fast, and sexy as hell....
Four Digit Stomper: Check Out The Parts And Pieces Freiburger Is Going To Turn Into 1,000+ Naturally Aspirated Horsepower
Everyone has goals, right? Somedays our goal is to make it a full day without covering our shirt in mustard, somedays it is to get some work on a project knocked out, and somedays it is to find cool...
Watch And Listen To This Ford GT40 Make A 170MPH + Fly By At The Silver State Classic Challenge
The car you will see and most importantly hear cross your screen below is a late 1960s Ford GT40 that was running in the 170mph average class. What that means is that the car in the category with the...
Four Minutes Of Slick Wrapping, Ant’s Eye View, Slow Motion Drag Launches
Our pal Javier Padron made this video and it is four minutes of drag car launches shot with what we’d consider to be an “ant’s eye” view. Even more neat is the fact that the...
If Watching This Fire Truck Do A Burnout With The Siren On Doesn’t Make You Smile, You Are Dead Inside
Sometimes I like to post stuff because it makes me happy and by doing that I am assuming that it’ll make smile as well. Case in point is this bright yellow fire engine doing a burnout with the...
This 1962 Volvo 122S Commercial Has To Have One Of The Best Taglines Ever Used: “You Can Drive It Like You Hate It.”
Volvo’s reputation for building safe, durable automobiles has been cemented for years now, but in early 1960s America, if it didn’t come from an American manufacturer, chances were good...
BangShift Tune-Up: “This Is Gonna Hurt” by Sixx:A.M. (2011)
Do you know how hard it is to type with one finger bound up in bandages and Gorilla tape? I do. I’ve been doing it for the last week. I want to say that the injury was something gnarly in the...
Bring The Rattle: Waking Up A Hibernating V6-Powered Third Gen Camaro
The top end model always gets saved. Everyone wants the GT, the Trans Am, the AMX, the Super Sport. Nobody gives half a crap about the lower models. Four door? Nope. V6? Not unless it came with a...
Money No Object: 1979 Pontiac Catalina Brown-Bag Special
Oh, karma. You have decided to visit me once again, I see. Back when I was in middle school, I helped turn a Catalina just like this one in light blue into a ragged-assed demolition derby car. There...
This 1970s Chevrolet Video Is A Weird and Interesting Propaganda Film Against The Foreign Car Invasion
History is of course, just that. We can look back on it and see what happened with a different and sometimes more accurate perspective than the people who were living it at the time. When it comes...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What One Vehicle Seemed Hopelessly Antiquated In Your Eyes?
During my time working in the yard, we had probably hundreds of cars come through that weren’t immediately deemed worthless. Most of the time I was all about bringing them back to life, even...
Unkillable: This Video Talks About And Shows A JE Piston That Lived Through Two Hours Of Racing And 10 Minutes At WOT
Racers are a punishing lot, right? During competition they are using their machines to go as fast and as hard as possible, pushing the bounds of physical and mechanical endurance. What do they do...
