Tag Archive: spotlight
Watch John Hall’s Massive and Scary Pro Mod Crash From NMRA Bradenton Earlier This Year
Back in March, Pro Mod racer John Hall suffered a massive wreck during the NMRA race in Bradenton, Florida. Hall was there testing his nitrous Camaro in preparation for the then upcoming ADRL season...
eBay Find: The Nicest 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro on Earth
The 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro marks the final effort from muscle car legend Don Yenko to take a normal factory high performance car and elevate it to “super car” levels. Starting with...
Watch the 2013 GT500 Mustang Make Hot Laps of The Nurburgring Ring in Germany
The hotly awaited 2013 Ford Mustang GT500 has been spotted and captured on video making laps around the famed Nurburgring in Germany. The car sounds 100% bad ass when wailing along, that is for sure....
Project Buford T Justice Hits the Dyno and Goes KABLOOEY! CARNAGE VIDEO INSIDE!
After we ran Buford T Justice at the strip and the 4,000lb tank shocked us with elapsed times in the 15-second range, we were immediately intrigued as to the actual power output of the 185,000 mile...
Buford T Justice Hits the Chassis Dyno Today…Guess the Rear Wheel HP!
So color us obsessed if you want, but after our 15-second stock drag romp with Buford a little more than a week ago, we were really interested in putting this car on a dyno to get a rear wheel hp...
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...