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Wild Video: A Monster Lane Changing Wheelstand From a Small Tire Mustang
Now this is some wheels up action! This Mustang dead hooks at the hit of the throttle and it is full sky, full time from there on out. The guy driving this car has some serious stones because he...
Great Read: Bill Caswell Goes Mini-Cup Stock Car Racing
Last we checked in with our rally pal Bill Caswell, he was hamming it up over at the Goodwood Festival in England. Since then he’s been keeping busy working on some other projects which we have...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Approach to Selling an Old Car?
I was cruising down the road yesterday minding my own business when I spotted this cool old Buick Riviera for sale on the side of the road. The gigantic FOR SALE slathered across the windshield...
Racing Junk Find: An Awesome Early 1980s Off Shore Racing Boat With 3,000hp!
It has been said that a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That statement can be not more truthful than when applied to off shore racing boats, the mammoth boats that super rich...
Drag Gallery: The 2011 Pennsylvania Dutch Classic – Maple Grove, PA
For 40 years, NHRA Division One sportsman racers have descended on Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania to close out the season at the Pennsylvania Dutch Classic. This year was no exception....
Cool Site: Thunder V12 – Where the GMC 702 V12 is King!
One of the more amazing things to us is how many small companies pop up to fill niches in the automotive world. Thunder V12 is a small company that builds high performance versions of the old 702ci...
Show Gallery: The Burnout Houston 2011
The Burnout Houston 2011 was a rockin’ good time as BangShift Texas photo correspondent Charles Wickam found out. The show bills itself as being about, “Beer, Babes, Brats, Badass Rods,...
Cool Story: Washington State Bus Mechanic Wins Lottery – Buys Back Camaro Project
It is always nice to find a pearl of good in the sewer pipe of bad news that flows freely these days. A regular Joe bus mechanic named William Sitdham from Olympia, Washington recently won more than...
MSD Rolls Out a New Logo and a New Approach to the Aftermarket
MSD has announced that they’ve tweaked their familiar logo and more importantly that they are taking a fresh approach to the aftermarket in general, becoming a company that handles all aspects...
El Boom Video: Test and Tune Night in Vegas Goes Very Wrong For a Mustang Owner
The interesting thing about nitrous explosions is that their severity doesn’t necessarily line up with the seriousness of the machine involved. Basically, the street car guy is just as likely...
eBay Find: A Crazy Rare and Stupid Expenside 1937 Mack Jr Truck
While on family vacation last week, I was trolling eBay during some quiet time. My truck loving self search up Mack with the hopes of finding a stupid deal on an old Model B or something. Instead I...
Drag Gallery: The 2011 Shakedown at E-Town
The 2011 running of the “Shakedown at E-Town” continued in a tradition that is heading for a tenth year in 2012. There were lots of great cars, lots of big time runs and some of the...
Carnage Photos: Driveline Destruction From The World of Pulling Trucks
Last year during the Loring Timing Association’s fall meet, I dragged Freiburger, along with Keith and Tonya Turk to their first truck and tractor pull that was happening at a large fair up in...
Crazed Video: Tasca Mustang Cobra Jet Goes 8.06 -170 in Testing
Carl Tasca and his lead wrench Ralph Porier have done it again and this video proves it. Last Wednesday, Tasca jammed the shifted through all the gears in a near picture perfect lap at New England...