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Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
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Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
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Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
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Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
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Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a water speed record attempt, and made untold hundreds of runs at drag strips and events across north America between 1962 and [...]
Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) – I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit, don’t believe them for a second. Few other activities are as effective at nurturing the problem solving and task-completion facets of the human brain as [...]
Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Last time we visited Dennis Spal at his High Speed Welding shop in Westmont, Illinois he was finishing up the mechanical restoration of Grumpy’s Toy X. That car was verified as the real deal by Grumpy himself. Recently Dennis invited me over to see his latest project, a [...]
Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift was in full force at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion this past weekend, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With Brian on the microphone, Chad manning the live feed and Charles Wickam shooting still photos, it was pretty much a wall-to-wall Bangshift weekend. But wait, there’s more! [...]
Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Any Taub was competing at Atco Dragway recently in her rear engine sportsman dragster. From the looks of the dial in board, this is a very low 7-second dragster, so we can safely assume that the car runs about 200mph and that means we can also assume that by half track it is making about [...]
GM Names Chris Liddell New CFO
Posted in General News December 22, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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GM has named 51-year-old Chris Liddell, the former CFO of Microsoft, to the same position at GM. Liddell may be the bravest man in America, taking on what has to be one of the most daunting jobs in the entire country. His tenure at Microsoft was marked by cost management and cash stockpiling, the two [...]
Another Historic Track Dead: The Milwaukee Mile, With Video
Posted in RACING & ACTION December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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It is claimed to be, at 106 years old, the oldest continuously operating race track in the country. It appears there will be no 107th season at the historic Milwaukee Mile. No national touring series has booked an event for the 2010 season there and no promoters have expressed interest in doing anything there either. [...]
Don’t Miss It: 32 Car Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Field at the 2010 March Meet, and BangShift.com Will Be There
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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We got slipped a note by our pals at DragRacingOnline that it has been decided the 2010 March Meet will showcase a 32-car field of Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars. This orgy of horsepower will be brought to you live and in living color here on BangShift.com through our exclusive deal to broadcast the race live [...]
2010 Camaro to Pace Indy 500
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Just a couple of days ago it was announced that a 2010 Chevy Camaro would be the pace car for the 2010 Indianapolis 500. The car is reported to be an RS/SS model. We have no idea who will be driving it, but we are very sure that a gaudy sticker package “Pace Car Edition [...]
Proposed Social Circle, Georgia, Drag Strip debated at Town Meeting
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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A while back we let you know that the town of Social City, Georgia was trying to decide whether or not it would allow a businessman to build an 1/8-mile drag strip on some land that he purchased. Residents had expressed concern about everything from noise complaints to the decline of civilization as they knew [...]
Saab: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Clint Eastwood once famously said in a movie, “Dyin’s no way to make a livin’.” That may hold true for people, but the protracted demise of Saab has gotten the company more attention than it has had during its entire stint as a wing of GM. Just when it looked like the division was really [...]
Cool Video: Kiddo’s First Time Driving
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Remember the first time you got to drive something? We’re not talking about a four wheeler, snowmobile, or dirt bike, we mean something substantial of the four wheeled variety. Some of our earliest “self piloting” memories involve a fork truck, but for the kiddo featured in this video, he can claim his first ride was [...]
Monday Time Killer: Cruising Antique Engines at Smokestak.com
Posted in General News December 21, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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With Christmas speeding toward us at the end of the week, productivity at work will be at an all time low. We’re going to contribute to the delinquency by directing you to check out Smokestak.com a resource dedicated to antique and obsolete engines. We’ve never heard of most stuff shown on the various parts of [...]
The Last Big-Block Chevy Was Built Today at the Downsized Tonawanda Engine Plant
Posted in General News December 19, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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We could not let the day end without noting that Friday, December 18, 2009, saw the production of the very last production big-block Chevy engine that will ever be made by General Motors. Actually, the legendary Town of Tonawanda Engine Plant may never see V8 production again. The end of the big-block meant 150 more [...]
Video: 351-Powered Ford Focus
Posted in MISC December 18, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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After showing you an LS1-powered Honda earlier today, we now present a video of a 351ci, V8-powered Ford Focus. There are a couple of outfits that manufacture pieces to complete this swap and, truth be told, we’d love to have one. The tiny wheelbase would make for viscious donuts and sliding the car around would [...]
Awesome Video: Corvette-Powered Honda Civic Runs 10s
Posted in General News December 18, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Meet the Civette, an LS1-powered Honda Civic. It rules just as hard as you’d expect it would. The little bugger runs 10s, and from the outside you’d never suspect anything was amiss until the rear tires start making smoke. The way this thing is packaged up is really impressive. Before word got out, we’re guessing [...]
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