The Right Combo: Watch This Supercharged Rolls Royce Meteor Powered Tractor Make A Full Pull
Once again we’re leering at a European pulling tractor with a freaking awesome engine combo and admiring the noise and the fury that it creates. In this case the tractor we are talking about is a Volvo BM Bison that has been repowered with a Rolls Royce Meteor engine that’s been enhanced with a pair […]
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The Roar Of Power: This 1970s Allis-Chalmers Dealer Film Is All In On Killer Tractor Pulling Footage
This is some gold right here. Between the cool tractors, the basic and awesome old sleds, and the footage of them both working together, this is about 10-minutes of gearhead heaven. The name of this Allis-Chalmers film is called The Roar of Power and it is a promotional piece made to show off the sport […]
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Nitro Dyno Failure: Watch This Turbocharged Drag-Bike Self Destruct On The Rollers
If there is one thing I have learned in nearly 20 years around professional drag racing it is that nitromethane is both the angel on your shoulder and the devil at the same time. It’s the fuel that seems to indicate that you’re making enough power to go fast enough at the same time enticing […]
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We Drive It: The Volvo V60 Cross Country B5 AWD – Better Than Bigger, Cooler Than A Crossover
The wagon is a very sadly endangered species in the automotive landscape anymore. We’ve watched over the years as the venerable wagon has been dislodged from its place as a practical family hauler by battleship sized massive SUVs and the contemptible and mostly crummy wave of little crossover utility vehicles which people cannot seem to […]
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Killer Vintage Match Race and High Performance Ads From 1960s Drag Mags
We dove back into the BangShift east coast office archives to dig up some cool ads and match race announcements from 1960s drag mags like Drag News and other small regional publications. We have a pretty substantial collection of these things, so if you dig ’em, let us know and we’ll keep the scans coming. […]
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Uproarious: This Video Profiles Every Detroit Diesel Two Stroke Engine From One Cylinder To 24!
This is really cool. You are about to see a video that profiles every to stroke Detroit Diesel engine from the 1 cylinder variety all the way up to the 24 cylinder behemoth and represents the largest iteration of the engine family ever produced. The two stroke Detroit is not just iconic because of its […]
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Ride Along On Bill Newlon’s Exhibition Puller – A Farm Tractor With An Allison V12! This Rules
The Minneapolis-Moline G1000 was produced between 1965 and 1969. These were 100hp tractors designed to do hard work on the farm and they were sold in a few different configurations to best meet the needs of the guys who would be using them. The Minnie Mo six cylinder engine they came delivered with measured out […]
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Behind The Scenes: This Video Shows The Awesome Process Used To Rush The 1992 Dodge Viper To Life
It’s almost like you remember where you were the first time you saw it. For guys of a certain generation (mine) the 1992 Dodge Viper represented not just the coolest car we had seen a factory make in 25 years but the rebirth of a legendary manufacturer in Dodge. It was this concept car that […]
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Great Chase: The Campy But Still Awesome Car Chase From The Stallone Movie “Cobra”
The Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra may be mostly unwatchable dreck, but I like the car chase in it, despite the fact that there’s a fair amount of campy weirdness throughout. The reason I like it is because it is the hardest I have ever seen, or will ever see an old Mercury get driven. Lead […]
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The Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies – Awesome WWII Film – Boost FTW Against the Axis!
The awesome power potential of the turbocharger is on full display these days. From little production engine to mighty racing mills, turbos are everywhere. Turbos were not widely used by anyone in the hot rodding world back in the 1930s and 1940s but they were starting to gain traction in places where you’d expect them […]
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