Tag Archive: spotlight
Watch Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger Drive a Lingenfelter Tuned Camaro ZL1 202mph!
Like everyone else, we saw the announcement the other day from Hot Rod Magazine, that Freiburger ran a ZL1 tuned by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering to a terminal speed of over 202mph at the...
FREE LIVE Streaming Video From Battle at the Banks Starts Saturday Morning
SCHEDULE UPDATE SCHEDULE UPDATE: WE WILL BE LIVE BY 7:45 AM DUE TO A SCHEDULE CHANGE HERE AT THE EVENT RATHER THAN 7AM. If you want to see what is arguably the coolest Pro Touring Event on the...
Heartbreaking News: EJ Potter, “The Michigan Madman” is Dead
Elon Jack Potter, better known to hot rodders the world over as “EJ” or “The Michigan Madman” died on April 30th, 2012 in Ithaca, Michigan. EJ was 71 years old. Normally I...
Project Buford T Justice Hits the Strip with Some Pretty Shocking Results!
(Photos by Dave Nutting/Words by Brian Lohnes) – When we asked BangShift nation to guess the ET that our 1987 Caprice 9C1 called Buford T Justice would run in the quarter mile, the guesses were...
Shop Tour Gallery: Midwest Hot Rods – Plainfield, Illinois
(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – Talk about an American hot rodding success story! A couple of guys have dream jobs building high end street rods, hot rods,...
Build Your Own BangShift Garage…You Could Be In The Spotlight!
BangShift.com’s newest Forum feature just got a few updates, and now is the time to Build Your Own BangShift Garage. Join our Forums, throw up some pictures, give us the specs, and tell us what...
Event Coverage: 25th Annual Seal Beach Classic Car Show, Featuring Hot Rods, Racecars, and More!
The last Saturday of April means the Seal Beach California Classic Car Show is going on, and it’s one we hate to miss, so we hit the streets of Seal Beach with our camera clicking and had a...
Florida Man Drives 1967 Camaro Into Swimming Pool (W/Video!)
Sherman Holland had a bad day on Monday. He went cruising in his 1967 Camaro around the Pembroke Pines suburb of Miami, Florida only to lose the handle on the car and plop it directly into a swimming...
Watch Lizzy Musi’s Huge ADRL Bristol Wreck From Two Angles – Camera Man Nearly Killed!
Pat Musi’s daughter Lizzy is no stranger to the drag strip having grown up at tracks all across the country with her dad Pat. 2012 marks her first year as a competitive driver, though. Musi was...
Donut Derelicts Photo Gallery: Spring is King and Cars are Out in Force
For more than 25 years guys have been hanging out at the Donut shop at Magnolia and Adams in Huntington Beach California. A couple hundred cars per week show up now, and despite a few bitching shop...
BangShift New Car Review: The 2012 Buick Regal GS [w/video]
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buick fans, it’s time to tell your friends that “Going Fast with Class” is back! After seven days and seven hundred-plus miles behind the wheel of a 2012 Buick...
Driveway Tech: Bodywork on Buford T Justice – We Close Our Roof Hole For Fun and (NO) Profit!
Few jobs will give you the self-satisfaction of repairing the outside of your hot rod, project, or racer. Yes, screwing together a fire breathing engine will give you levels of joy that will make you...
Event Gallery: The Orange Plaza Car Show – Orange, California
(Photos by Chad) – With the vibe of a small town center, a setting that has been used to film lots of commercials and tv shows, and the location that literally have Circle City Hot Rods their...
The Parting Shift: A Bad Ass and Drama Free Stick Box Strip Pass
Yeah, we’re late with this week’s Parting Shift, but that is OK. The video of this expertly driven, slickly shifted Mustang is worth it. Normally I like to hunt down huge wheelies, or...