Watch a Toyota Supra Start a Drag Strip Pass on the Tires and Cross the Traps on the Roof!
Posted in CRASH & BURN April 11, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Supras have been dying at a high rate on drag strips in both Europe and North America. A couple of weeks ago we showed you one blowing up and turning the strip at Englishtown into a hibachi grill. Today we’re heading across the Atlantic ocean and back to our favorite English drag strip, Santa Pod. [...]
Watch England’s Andy Frost Run 6.995/218mph at Santa Pod – World’s Fastest Street Legal Drag Car!
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 10, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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England’s own Andy Frost, in his wild Red Victor III ran 6.995/218mph at Santa Pod Raceway’s Easter Thunderball last weekend. That run makes Frost’s car the fastest street legal drag car in the world, with the USA’s Larry Larsen holding onto the quickest title with his runs deeper into the 6.90s. Frost’s latest iteration of [...]
Watch an Incredible Video From Under a Funny Car That Illustrates the Brutal Forces on a Drag Slick
Posted in OTHER TECH April 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve been talking a lot about tires around here over the last couple weeks. Mostly we’ve been talking about high performance road tires as that’s what we’ll be bolting under the Caprice project to enhance the handling of the car. On the other end of the performance tire spectrum is the venerable drag slick. Invented [...]
Action Video: Cars Drag Racing on Dirt in Mexico!
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This is not drag racing on sand. It isn’t drag racing through mud. This is freakin’ drag racing on dirt! It’s held in Naco Sonora, Mexico, south of Bizbee, Arizona, but that’s about all we can tell you since we can’t find any more information online that isn’t in Spanish, but we know that “cuarto [...]
Watch Bob Riggle Take the Hemi Under Glass Wheelstander Up the Hill at Goodwood Circa 2007
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 3, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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When I ran the video of Ron Hope’s crash in the Rat Trap AA/FA at a road course type event in New Zealand the other day, I knew that the video was going to get picked up and run everywhere. I also knew that 90% of the people that picked the video up would butcher [...]
Watch Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel Autocross the Company Dually and Actually Finish Mid-Pack!
Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel is a mad man. He is also one hell of a driver, so when we saw a video that showed the Ridetech Chevy dually truck attacking the autocross at the Goodguys Pleasanton, California show we had to watch. As it turns out, Bret wheeled the 7,000lb behemoth around the cones in a quick [...]
Watch a Pro Stock Tractor Pull The Sled All the Way Through the Building at the 2012 Keystone Nationals
Posted in CRASH & BURN March 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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A little later today we are going to run a big gallery of photos from the 2012 Keystone Nationals, a huge pulling event held in Pennsylvania. This event has everything from the awesome two and four wheel drive trucks all the way through the Pro Stock diesel tractors and the big multi-engine blown alky burning [...]
The Parting Shift: Gear Banging Insanty in a 1980s Era Turbocharged F1 Car – Amazing Footage
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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In all the Parting Shift blog items we have run on the site, I believe this is the first one that features a Formula One car on the track. Today’s F1 drivers use paddle shifters and have steering wheels in their cars with more buttons and functions than a lap top. Back in the 1980s [...]
Watch Amazing Footage of 1940s SoCal Hot Rodders Dirt Track Racing – A Young Jim Rathmann Among Them
Posted in HISTORIC March 22, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We were tipped off to this incredible seven minute film by a BangShift reader. It looks like B-roll footage from a production company or movie studio that was working on one of the myriad of hot rod exploitation films that exploded in the late 1940s and early 1950s. What you will see is an awesome [...]
Watch a Fuel Altered Launch Like a Moon Rocket When the Wheelie Bar Breaks at Santa Pod
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 20, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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While we respect and admire racers that run in classes where wheelie bars are outlawed, there are lots of cars that really need them. Among those cars that need wheelie bars to keep from becoming low flying aircraft are fuel altereds. As you will see in this video from England’s Santa Pod Raceway, without a [...]
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The Parting Shift: A Doug Nash Five-Speed Gets Worked at an Aussie Hill Climb
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This week’s Parting Shift takes us to the land down under. We get to go for a ride with the driver of an old Falcon GT powered by a healthy 351 Cleveland motor. He is stabbing and steering while shifting a Doug Nash five speed with the wrong hand. Normally when we hear Doug Nash [...]
Friday Time Suck: The Entire 1971 Watkins Glen Can-Am Race Broadcast – Awesome Cars, Racing, and People!
Posted in HISTORIC March 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It is Friday, more specifically, it is Friday afternoon. Let’s be honest with each other. You don’t want to be at the office any more. Leaving isn’t an option because the last time you tried that the boss saw your fake plaster of paris replica head roll off the chair and smash on the floor. [...]
Cool Video: Talking AFCO Shocks at the Drags
Posted in OTHER TECH March 15, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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There’s a reason that AFCO shocks are the choice of virtually every seriously fast small tire car in the country. They are the most tuneable, tweakable, and tailored pieces on the market. In this video you’ll see what we’re talking about as Mark Menscer of Menscer Motorsports talks about building shocks with the correct valving [...]
Bitchin’ Video: Watch a Seriously Bad Ass 1973 Camaro Attack the Autocross at the 2012 Run to the Coast Event
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 13, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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In the coming days we are going to show you photos and info from the 2012 Run to the Coast Pro Touring event. There are several of these multi-day, multi-function events going on this year and we plan on covering a bunch of them because they highlight kick ass cars being driven like they have [...]
Bitchin’ Nitro Video: Top Fuel and Funny Car Warm Ups From the 2012 March Meet
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We often joke about trying to add “Smell-O-Vision” technology to the BangShift streaming drag race broadcasts to inject the scent of nitro into the shops and homes of viewers all over the world. After seeing the following video, we are going to double our R&D efforts from $5.00 to $10.00 invested in making this happen. [...]
Awesome March Meet Video: Four Days of Madness – See All of 2012′s Thrills and Spills!
Posted in RACING & ACTION March 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The killer media keeps flowing from the 2012 March Meet. This latest piece we were tipped off to was created by our friend Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian who is an awesome drag photog and video maven as well as the owner and operator of DragStripGirl Designs. In this video she managed to condense a four day drag [...]
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