Video of the Week: The Snow Tow
Dec 04, 2008Chad ReynoldsFUNNY STUFF, Videos
This video is another oldie, but when I saw it for the first time I laughed so hard I nearly needed to go clean out my shorts. This one is a short edit that gets to the point pretty quickly. I hope...
The Violation Game: Sweet Pipes
Dec 03, 2008Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
This week’s cruel display of automotive styling takes today’s gaudy trend of stick-on portholes (or “pahtholes” if you ask Lohnes) and turns it up to 11. But what could be...
Web Site of the Week: Abandonded Airfields
Dec 03, 2008Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
This week’s highlighted Web site is not directly related to cars, but there are a bunch of reasons to dig it, anyway. The site www.airfields-freeman.com includes the histories of 1,413...
Vintage Racer of the Week: Swamp Rat 14
Dec 02, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
There are few if any other singular race cars on the planet, in any form of racing that were the catalyst for as much change as Don Gartlits’ Swamp Rat 14, his first rear-engine dragster. On...
Book Review: Against Death and Time
Dec 02, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
Against Death and Time is an interesting look at the 1955 racing season on an international scale. For starters, 1955 was not a good year for racing. James Dean was killed (in a non-racing accident),...
Viper V10 in a Mustang
Dec 02, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
Every once in a while even we get dope-slapped with something. This Mustang is one of those somethings. Long story short, Scott Vanderschoor of NiteMare Motorsports in Des Moines, Iowa is more than...
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: The King in Action
Dec 02, 2008Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
I admit that this Pic of the Week is not my own snapshot, but one by Rick Amado. The scene is the second Hotchkis Media Shootout at Buttonwillow Raceway Park here in California. I don’t...
The Top 11 Things We Never Thought We’d Hear Ourselves Say
Dec 02, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
Times have changed. We have changed. Our families have grown. Standing back and looking at the state of the hobby and of our near homelessness and of our shift to the Web, we had to sum it all up in...
Moran: Quickest and Fastest in the World With Turbos!
Dec 02, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
For years we’ve been wondering and waiting for someone, anyone, to figure out how to properly harness the power of a turbocharged Pro Mod and throw some numbers up. Andy Jensen has been doing...
The New Weld Wheels
Dec 01, 2008Chad ReynoldsNew Products
This is kind of old news after the buzz got around at the SEMA show, but we were just copied on the official press release so we thought we’d share with you that Weld Racing has been purchased...
eBay Pick of the Week: The F-Troop Gasser
Dec 01, 2008Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
As radical and cool and historic as this is, I don’t think I’d throw down $425,000 for this even if I had Leno kinda money. It’s the F-Troop Willys Gasser, and its story is well...
Monday Time Killer: Horsepower Guesser
Dec 01, 2008Brian LohnesBangShift News
Monday morning universally sucks unless you are at the US Nationals and are still racing. Other than that, it blows. Luckily, we here at FreiburgersJunkyard.com will provide you with something to...
Gale Banks Display at the Wally Parks
Dec 01, 2008Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
The photo shows just a few of the 34 engines that were headed out of Banks Engineering last week, on the way to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, for this week’s...
