The Beginning Of The Endtimes: How The Pursuit Special Came To Be
I knew about the Mad Max film franchise when I was little. One of the Nintendo games that my mother had enjoyed was Mad Max (it came out in 1990) and all I could tell you about that game is that it...
Spring Fling GALOT $100K Saturday Bracket Racing LIVE Right Here!
We’ve got it all going on this weekend here at BANGshift. Drag racing is happening again folks and that means killer bracket racing from the Spring Fling at GALOT where $100k is on the line and...
Funny Car Chaos TODAY! BangShift.com Chaos Live Stream To Start In San Antonio At 4:30 Central!! SIGN UP TO WATCH HERE
We’ve been asked to provide LIVE Streaming Video for the Funny Car Chaos series, one where Funny Cars of all kinds can be seen hauling ass and smoking tires at a track near you. We’ll be...
Control Timing With Holley EFI. Here’s How To Install And Wire A Dual Sync Distributor For Your Sniper
Switching from a carbureted combination to one that uses fuel injection can be a great way to improve drivability, fuel mileage, cold starts, and more for your hot rod or street machine. But as good...
Weekend Paint Job! – Painting Kym and Jim Fissel’s Anglia With Alex and Dennis Taylor!
One of the best things about summer is getting to hang out with our friends the Taylors during Rocky Mountain Race Week. It’s always fun with mom “Dammit” Deb Taylor, dad Dennis,...
Just A Small Step In The Right Direction: Giving A 1964 Galaxie A New Spark
I love the whole idea of driving your classic. They were regular cars that just managed to get old…what’s the issue with still driving them? Well…a couple of things, to be fair....
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Worth Trying To Make A Living Racing Anymore?
I remember it clear as a bell: I’m on my hands and knees in the hallway of my grandfather’s house, pushing a large plastic toy that’s vaguely in the shape of a G-body NASCAR racer,...
BangShift Saturday Matinee: “The Junkman”, The World Record Holder For Wrecked Vehicles!
I had to watch this entire thing twice, just so I could attempt to comprehend what was going on besides a Cadillac Eldorado getting beat on like there was no tomorrow. There’s a story, but...
Some Like It Mellow: 1976 Ford Elite, The Moderate’s Cruiser
Welcome to 1976. Muscle is out the door, personal luxury coupes are in, bumpers are now battering rams that will prove their worth at demolition derbies across the country for decades to come, and...
Unhinged: The Safety Brief That Ends With “And They Walked Away…”
Let’s play a game. It’s called “Identify That Wreck”. You are looking at the remains of a car that went off of the road during the Sandhills Open Road Challenge in Nebraska. I...
The Greatest Drag Racing Wheelstand Video Ever Made? We Think So – More Than Four Minutes Of Bumper Dragging Fury
We love wheelstand videos and we know that you do as well. Know who else does? Sean Melton of Urban Hillbilly Action Video and he’s got an archive of footage from his years at the drag strip...
This Newsreel Footage Of Mike Snively Beating Out Don Garlits At Fremont Drag Strip In 1965 Is Awesome And Not Seen Since ’65
I love running across a video that has very few views on it because it means that the thing has just been sitting there on YouTube waiting to be discovered. In the case of this 1965 newsreel footage...
Wheels Up Video: Watch These Two Hot Rodded Lawn Tractors Rip Down A Short Drag Strip
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Strattanville, PA home to the best and fastest lawn tractor drag races in the nation. Strattanville is home to many things but it is the wheels up, shockingly fast...
Random Car Review: The 1958-61 Kamov Sever-2 – In Soviet Russia, Anything Goes When You’re Buried In Snow
Russian creativity has to be commended. What other country could have dreamed up such an idea as the semi-aquatic, kind of boat/kind of large airplane hybrid like the Lun-class ekranoplan? Very few,...
