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Gearhead Guys You Should Know: George Hurst
George Hurst was one of the founding kingpins of the modern performance automotive aftermarket. He had a rare mix of business savvy, mechanical skill, and promotional genius. Many people have one or...
The Dirty Gearhead Phrase That Isn’t: Balls to the Wall
It is a phrase that lots of gearheads use frequently and probably few know the origin of. When you’re yapping with buddies and tell them that you’re going to run your car, “balls...
The Top 11 Greatest Ever Names of Race Car Drivers
Don’t be confused. This is not a list of nicknames, it’s a list of real names. As per usual, we’ve probably made some glaring omissions here so feel free to insult us and tell us...
Barnstormin’: Stuck in a World of Mere Mortals
I wonder if Art Arfons did his own laundry. I’m sure Evel Knievel didn’t. That’s what I was thinking the other night while switching the lights and darks down in my basement....
The Top 11 Greatest Automotive Sauces
We use a lot of automotive chemicals every day, and we refer to ’em all as sauce. Carb sauce, gear sauce, gasket sauce–whatever. By the time you’ve been through a few decades with...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Vince Piggins
Vince Piggins was a force to be reckoned with at GM. He was pals with Smokey Yunick, understood what the role of performance cars could be to the company, and was a genuine car guy in every since of...
The Top 11 Best Dragstrip Names
Back when we did the Top 11 Race Car Driver Names it that tripped off a firestorm when people failed to read the intro and assumed we were calling those guys the Top 11 Race Car Drivers ever....
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Colin Chapman
This week we head across the pond to England for Gearhead Guys You Should Know. Colin Chapman was the founder of Lotus Cars and without question one of the most brilliant car guys of the 20th...
Top 11 Best Ever Race Car Paint Schemes
Modern race car paint jobs can’t hold a candle to the classic, care-free stylings of generations ago. There were classy, subtle schemes, and gaudy, loud, attention-grabbing hues slathered down...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong
When the dust settles and the big book of drag racing history is finally written, Dale Armstrong will stand alone among a group of five or six men judged to be the greatest crewchiefs of all time....
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Art Arfons
Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further: Art Arfons was a genuine American hero, and not just in the theater of speed. Arfons was a WWII vet and saw combat during the invasion of...
Follow BangShift on Facebook – We Are Closing in on 25,000 Likes!
If you aren’t a follower of BangShift.com on Facebook, you should be! There are nearly 25,000 people already in our BangShift Facebook clan and the number is growing every day. It is a perfect...
Scrapple: The BangShift Guide to Automotive Crap That Happened This Week You Care Nothing About
It has been far too long since we last came at you with some scrapple here on BangShift. Chad and I have been working our asses off on a model rocket project in North Korea as of late and that has...
Action Video: Cars Drag Racing on Dirt in Mexico!
This is not drag racing on sand. It isn’t drag racing through mud. This is freakin’ drag racing on dirt! It’s held in Naco Sonora, Mexico, south of Bizbee, Arizona, but that’s...