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Gallery: The 2013 Race and Performance Expo – St. Charles, Illinois
(Photos by Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – All the industry insiders get SEMA , PRI and other shows that are not open to the general public. With the midwest mid-winter deep freeze...
Vermonster 4X4 Snow Bog 2013 Action Gallery – Mega Trucks Action – Jumps, Donuts, Spills!
(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – This is the first of a few galleries we’ll have this week from the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog which went down last weekend in Bradford,...
FREE LIVE Streaming Video: Radial Revolution Lights Out 4. Wheel’s Up Small Tire Racing!
There are two things you will find in abundance at South Georgia Motorsports Park anytime Duck and Jim put on an event… Bad Ass small tire drag cars, and egos. And this weekend is the put up or...
Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!
I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following....
Wreckage Video: A Flat Track Motorcycle Crash That Sends Riders Flying And Snaps A Bike In Two
First off, everyone involved in this awful crash is OK and has since returned to racing. We lead with that because when you see this clip from the Lucas Oil flat track motorcycle race on the famed...
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...