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BangShift Announces the Engine Failures Challenge: Worst Engine Builders in the Country To Gather for Contest

After watching the popularity and prestige of the Engine Masters Challenge grow every year, BangShift has decided to get their piece of the pie by announcing the creation of the Engine Failures...

Caption This Photo: A Convertible Cab Over Big Rig the Hard Way

Obviously this photo comes from somewhere in Asia, but that is really beside the point. It could come from the moon and we’d still glare at it for minutes on end because it is absolutely...

BangShift Question of the Day: Have You Ever Saved a Car or Truck From the Crusher?

Hearing about old cars and trucks getting crushed always causes us to grit our teeth, but knowing one is headed for certain destruction and having the chance to save it is a totally different deal....

Question of the Day: Which Buick Electra 225 Would You Pick?

Big Buicks represent some of the finest cars Detroit pushed out during the good ol’ days. Imagine our joy when we stumbled upon two of the lumbering giants, a decade apart in age but nearly...

Wreck Video: When Co-Driver Indecision Causes Rally Havoc

This video is from the Targa Tasmania, a race three times as wild as the name would suggest. You’ll see what happens when a codriver and driver lose communication for only just a half a second....

Dyno Video: A Screaming 10,000-RPM Ripsaw Motor From Hell – Chevy SB2 Goodness!

While the 9,000 rev dyno pull we showed you the other day was really neat, this 10,000 rpm scream to the horsepower heavens is even cooler. The engine on the pump is a 355ci SB2 style Chevy and it...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Bitchin’ Big Rig Race Video: The Great American Truck Race, Atlanta, 1980

Earlier today we dug up an old story that we ran about the Great American Truck Racing series from the 1980s and announced the creation of the ChumpTruck budget big rig racing series for 2014. This...

Funny Video: The Unnecessarily Complex and Dangerous Russian Way to Start a Car With a Dead Battery

Pop starting a stick shift car with a dead battery is like BangShift 101. Hell, both Chad and I have owned vehicles that ONLY started this way for months at a time. I used to park my truck in college...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s The Ugliest American Car?

So this one may ruffle a feather or two. We’re interested in hearing your opinion on the ugliest American car of all time. There’s the low hanging fruit of blurting our something like the...

Video: TRARS!

It’s Friday and that means the weekend is nearly here, which means our serious, news hunting, journalist-selves are in the mood for some fun. We’re getting our jollies this week by...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Video Bonanza: Coil, Force and Steve Evans, The Glory Years

Courtney Force’s win at the 2013 NHRA Winternationals was big. That news got us to thinking and remembering the days before the Force clan was saturated in all forms of the media and John still...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Non-Mainstream Engine?

After watching those two killer drag motor dyno pulls, our thoughts wandered off the beaten path to engines that we’ve owned, wanted to own, or will own in the future. While a small cadre of...

Best of BangShift: Blizzard Preparedness- Screw Canned Goods and Batteries, Fix the Antique John Deere Snowmobile!

While weiner, clean-handed automotive bloggers were preparing breathless items about the new Kia Rio, sipping a Mochachino and working up a semi to Ken Block videos, we were laying in the snow,...

Historic promo video: The Olds Jetfire Turbo V8

We’ve been on a kick for old promotional videos lately and this one, featuring the “new in ’62” Olds Jetfire turbocharged V8, is totally cool. Touting the performance and...