Tag Archive: spotlight
Nostalgia Drags Gallery: The 2012 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Fitchburg, Massachusetts
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – One of the coolest nostalgia drag racing and hot rod events in New England doesn’t happen at a drag strip at all. Instead it happens at an airport in central...
Antron Brown 2013 Winternationals Crash Video – Here It Is
Of all the crazy stuff that happened during the 2013 NHRA Winternationals, Antron Brown’s scary high speed wreck was by far the worst. As you’ll see in the video below Brown’s...
Buford T Justice Update: A Very Frustrating Day On The Dyno And How We’re Planning To Fix It
So first, I’ll lead with an apology. This update was supposed to run last week but a blizzard and a bunch of other stuff jumped up and caused the delay. With the amount of email, text, forum,...
Gallery: The Rumble Cats Hot Rod Club – Rally In The Alley 2013 – Spring, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Texas scene is rolling and our man Charles Wickam is on the scene bringing us great photos as the glaciers close in around BS eastern world hq. Charles hit the...
Gallery: The Brock Yates Cannonball Run Exhibition At The Saratoga Auto Museum
(Photo by Joe Grippo) – Brock Yates is a guy we openly idolize here at BangShift. He’s one of the most important and influential automotive journalists ever and his list of books,...
Gallery: Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night 2013 – Awesome Rods, Engines, And More!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The recently wedded Joe Grippo attended an open garage night at the famed Rolling Bones hot rod shop where he hung out with a bunch of people and blasted a ton of...
The AMX/GTO: 1969 AMX + 2006 GTO + Home Garage = BangShift Appproved Tire Melting Awesome
If you give a hot rodder three things: a welder, creativity, and time, you are guaranteed some type of cool result. Such is the case with my neighbor (literally about a 1/4 mile down the road) Scott...
Gallery: More Super Bad Ass 1980s Pro Street Photos – A True Time Warp Gallery Of Photos!
(Photos by BS Member DragBike425) – Man, the hits just keep on coming with respect to killer shots of the 1980s Pro Street craze that completely enveloped the hot rodding hobby in the 1980s and...
Phil Remington Dead At 92 – Legendary Fabricator, Designer, and Engineer – American Racing Hero
With sadness, I report the passing of Phil Remington who accomplished more in his 92 years on Earth than most can ever dream of. Remington’s skills as a builder, fabricator, engineer, and...
Click Here To Watch A FREE LIVE Stream Of The PSCA Record Breaker Nationals And NHRA Pro Stock Testing Feb 9-10th. 9AM Sat, 10AM Sun
That’s right folks, it’s time for PSCA Racing action LIVE here at BangShift.com where for the second year in a row we’ll be broadcasting start to finish action at the PSCA Record...
Watch Aussie Mark Sheehan’s Top Fuel Dragster Erupt In Flames On Start Up – Wild Nitro Fire!
This is some wild video! Top Fuel racer Mark Sheehan and his tuner, American John Smith were lucky to escape unscathed from this scary fire down in Australia. Sheehan was sitting in his car and Smith...
Liberation Of A Sanctioning Body: How The IHRA Was Saved, Who Saved It, And What The Future Holds
Not a shot was fired, no blood was shed, and there were no adoring crowds lining the sidewalks when Kenneth Feld, leader of the family owned Feld Entertainment empire agreed to sell the International...
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 Update: A TCI 700R4 And Breakaway Torque Converter Get Our 9C1 Caprice Shifty!
Last week I installed the cylinder heads, COMP lifters, rockers, pushrods,and LS lifter guides into Buford’s small block mill. While all that was nice, we still had a massive problem on our...