Where’s The Beef: Here’s Three Of The Most Pokey New Cars You Can Buy Right Now
(By Tom Lohnes) – The average amount of horsepower a new vehicle sold in America makes is right around 200, give or take. As there is a lot of high-horsepower exotic cars there are also a few...
The Boys Are Back: Michalek Brother Racing Teams With Fund That Flip, Prepares To Burn Nitro At NHRA US Nationals!
It’s always cool when good stuff comes together for good people. Our pals Corey and Kyle Michalek are those good people and their newly announced partnership with FundThatFlip.com is that good...
Century Of Speed: This Rajo Intake Manifold/Exhaust Header Is A 100+ Year Old Relic Of Horsepower Making
When it comes to names in the high performance industry, Rajo Manufacturing Company of Racine, Wisconsin stands tall. Why? Because the company existed before there was even the faintest idea of...
Watch A V12 Ferrari and a V8 Powered Lotus Battle At Goodwood – Jimmy Clark Drove The Lotus When It Was New!
This is vintage racing in its absolutely finest form. You are about to se a V12 Ferrari Formula One car and a Coventry Climax V8 powered Lotus race the wheels off of each other at Goodwood in...
Brawny: 1947 Dodge Cab-Over – Paging Lohnes To The Courtesy Phone!
What’s there to say? It’s a mutt in the truest sense of the word. Powered by a Ford diesel made by Navistar, fitted with a GM steering column, and meant to be worked. No, that’s no...
Mini Raging Italian: This Lancia Montecarlo Is A Micro-Machine That Moves!
Do you have that one friend that has been working on their car forever, yet it never seems to be progressing? That’s my friend Paul and his Lancia Scorpion. It’s a neat little car (and I...
The Fiero Revival, Part 10: Oh, The Joys Of Bodywork And Priming
For a while during my “in the yard” days, it seemed that all I could smell for just about four years was Bondo, primer paint and masking tape. For many years there was a constant haze of...
Great Escape: What Living With A Slide-In Camper Is Like In A Nutshell
Another day, another day of living with this craving for a recreational vehicle setup of some kind, because getting away from everyone and living next to a stream somewhere near Tarryall, Colorado...
Watch A 2015 Mustang Race A VW Jetta Down The Strip…In Reverse!
File this one under, “who thought this was a good idea?!” No, the Mustang you see in the image above and below is not running the wrong way down the track, well technically it is but it...
Colonnade CPR: Bringing A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Back To The Outside World
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
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!
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
(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...
