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Result for: Sick Week

The Underdogs: Can They Knock Out The Speed Demon? Or Will They Be It’s Next Victim?

We’ve already discussed the Battle Royale that was/is expected between the Poteet and Main Speed Demon and the Team Vesco Turbinator. What we haven’t told you is that there are two...

Saturday Night Nitro: Records Fall, Heat Rises, And The Bakersfield Boise Blitz Is In Full Swing

(Text and Photos by Darr Hawthorne, Photos Paul Schmitz)  Another hot Kern County, California weekend welcomed nitro cars to the second Saturday Night Nitro event of 2013 to Auto Club Famoso...

The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

Guys and girls who race cars tend to have mucho grande egos. It’s the nature of the business. Great racers never exist in a vacuum by themselves, so it’s inevitable that every great one...

Chadmouth: Paul Harvey and Ram – Plus A Bunch Of Other Whining Bitches

So let me get this straight. Dodge uses a Paul Harvey monologue in a commercial for Ram Trucks during the Super Bowl, thereby creating the best commercial of the game, and arguably one of the most...

Buford T Justice 9C1 Caprice Update: Metal Fab,Head Work, A Good Surprise, An Awful One

As promised, we’re back with another update of Project Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice. In the last installment we took the car to the dyno and thrashed all day bolting on more than 20hp...

Video: Robert Patrick’s Devestating Pro Nitrous Wreck From ADRL Norwalk – Patrick OK

The ADRL tour passed through Norwalk, Ohio recently running their wild equipment down the strip at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. The most violent occurrence of the weekend was the wreck...

Watch the Most Horrendous Crash at the 2012 24 Hours of LeMans – Drivers OK – Cars Annihilated

We missed watching the 24 Hours of LeMans last weekend due to our attendance of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. We did manage to catch some highlights and we saw the replay that you will...

Video: White Knuckle – The Story of the Motorcycle Cannonball – Pre-1916 Motorcycles Going Cross Country!

Brian Darwas, the awesome filmmaker over at AtomicHotRods.com sent us a link to the preview/teaser of his upcoming film entitled, “White Knuckle: The Story of the Motorcycle Cannonball”....

Chadmouth: The IndyCar Edition Including Photos and Video!

So, the Monday before the Long Beach Grand Prix our guy Jimi Day, with Optima Batteries, calls and says “Hey bud, Optima is a sponsor of the World Challenge Series and I have some credentials for...

The RideTech Mecum Diary: Tuesday

(Words and photos by Bret Voelkel) – I love buying cars! (doesn’t every hotrodder?) I have justified my car buying activities to this point by using these cars for product development,...

Event Coverage: NMRA Finishes Season On High Note in Bowling Green

As much as we try, the BangShift machine just can’t be everywher. But thanks to guys like John Fusco and Mike Galimi, we can still bring you results and highlights from the NMRA World Finals in...

National Collector Car Appreciation Day July 8th. SEMA Show List Here.

  The SEMA Action Network continues to do great stuff for the industry, the enthusiast, and the hobby, and we can’t stress enough how important their role is to all of us enjoying our hot...

GM Peformance Division’s Mike Copeland now running Operations at Lingenfelter

Longtime BangShift.com supporter and GM Performance Division God, Mike Copeland, is now the Manager of Operations for Lingenfelter. With Mike’s sick pension for all things loud and fast, we...

Barnstormin’: Road Trippin’ for Pizza and Planes

Rather than make our trip to the New England Air Museum a single day event, my intrepid wife and I decided to make it a weekend adventure for the kids. Well, we used the whole “weekend...