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Party-Time: The First Ever YellowBullet.com Nationals Will be Held at Cecil County on Labor Day WeekendBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
YellowBullet.com, the 900-pound gorilla of drag racing message boards, and pal of BangShift.com, has announced that it will be running a drag race on Labor Day Weekend at Maryland's Cecil County Dragway. The event will feature a bunch of classes focusing on small tire street car style drag racing. The event is being held the same weekend as the US Nationals and we're going to predict that this mother with make the NHRA race look like a church sponsored ice cream social. Read More >
Neat Video: Buddies Horsing Around With Their Jag-Powered Slingshot, Dry Hops IncludedBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
This video struck us as very cool in a subtle way. It's basically a few guys tuning on a vintage slingshot dragster powered by a DOHC Jag engine. The thing sounds cool as hell, and the fact that they are pulling dry hops in an alley behind their shop of house is even cooler. We dug it because it's just a couple guys wrenching on a dragster, having fun. Read More >
Neat Old Race-Rod: The 1950 Diedt Rochester SpecialBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
The late 1940s and early 1950s were some of the pinnacle times for hot rodding. The "rule book" had not really been established, there were lots of talented tradesmen fresh off duty from WWII, and so long as someone had either the talent or the bucks, they could have their wildest dreams come to life. Such was the case of this cool one off, the 1950 Diedt Rochester Special. Read More >
Columnist Wonders Why Pony Cars Don't Get Raced, Seems Unaware That They DoBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Austen recently penned a column lamenting the fact that none of the Big Three's pony cars get raced like they did in the old days. He has apparently missed the memo on the myriad of factory Mustang race cars, Drag Pack Challengers, and the rumblings that Chevy will be offering some sort of racer package Camaro into the mix. The column should really be wondering why they aren't raced in NASCAR as that's where it eventually ends up. Read More >
Cool Video: A Huge Custom Unimog Struts Its StuffBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
Unimogs are bad ass 4x4s, and modified Unimogs are even better than that. This video shows a totally tricked out Unimog built by Couch Off Road Engineering for the firearms company Magpul Industries. The truck has been converted into a bus of sorts and rides on massive tires, has a worked over diesel motor, and a bunch of custom fab work to boot. We want this truck! Read More >
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New Products: TCI Master Overhaul Kit for Ford 1980-1993 AOD TransmissionsBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/11/10
More and more Ford guys are running the venerable AOD transmission behind their blue oval motors in high performance applications. The folks at TCI have introduced a neat master overhaul kit that should serve the needs of rodders and sportsman racers who run an AOD transmission. Read More >
eBay Find: A Wooden 1950's Sports CarBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/10/10
We were stopped dead in our tracks when we laid eyes on their weirdly amazing car. It is a completely wooden sports car, powered by an odd-ball motorcycle engine, and sitting on a Citroen suspension system. The car was built by a west coast boat constructor and was modeled after sports cars and race cars of the day. Talk about one of one! Read More >
Party at Big Daddy's House and Everyone is InvitedBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/10/10
We got wind of a cool car show coming up at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida and figured we'd pass the word along to anyone that can attend. It's free to check out as a spectator, so we'll need to enlist one of our BangShift.com bretheren to hit the show and snap some great photos for us to build a gallery of and show the world. Hell, we'll even throw in a free t-shirt to the first person who sends us good photos to run! Read More >
Announcing The First Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge, a High Speed HillclimbBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/10/10
We love the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. They're proud sponsors of BangShift.com and more than that, they are as hard core as they come in the gearhead world. They ran 330 mph with a Caddy powered streamliner at Bonneville last year, have a fleet of truly awesome cars, and now have announced that they are putting on an insane high-speed hill climb in Arizona this June. This event makes the sauce of the Silver State open road race look weak! Read More >
Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County FairBy Brian Lohnes Posted 03/10/10
Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race big rigs around it. Where the hell do we sign up? This is friggin' awesome. Read More >
