Arizona’s Manzanita Speedway Closing; Final WoO Race This Weekend
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you are a Sprint Car fan from the Phoenix area, you best be getting yourself out to Manzanita Speedway this weekend for the last ever running of the World of Outlaws series there. The track is...
News Flash! Big Media Does a Drag Racing Story and No One Got Killed!
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Check out this MSNBC report on the state of the drag racing world in these trying economic times. We were stunned that the mainstream media decided to do a drag racing story that didn’t involve...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Jr. Thompson/Mazmanian Opel Gasser!
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Wow. Just wow. This may be the Criagslist ad to beat them all. It’s the actual Gasser campaigned by Big John Mazmanian and Junior Thompson in 1968-1970 in match races and competition all across...
F-Bomb Camaro at the Fast and Furious Hollywood Premiere
Mar 26, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Better late than never, huh? It was nearly two weeks ago and I’m only reporting on it now, but we did manage to weasel our way in for the hot action when we attended the Fast and Furious...
Gearhead Destination: The Blue Ridge Parkway
Mar 26, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
A while back we told you to go check out the Tail of the Dragon, an amazing stretch of road that will test your nerve and your ability to toss your junk through the corners. Today we’re sending...
Comp Cams Acquires Quarter Master Clutches
Mar 26, 2009Brian LohnesNew Products
Comp Cams continues to build a portfolio of strong brands with the addition of Quarter Master Industries to its corporate docket. Quarter Master builds high-performance clutches and driveline parts...
Video of the Week: Trans-Am 1969
Mar 26, 2009Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
This right here is more than five minutes of video zen of SCCA Trans-Am racing in 1969. It seems to be a portion of a longer video and it has all the feeling of some type of promo. We dig the natural...
Nostalgia Fuel Funny Cars will Assault the East Coast this Summer!
Mar 26, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This announcement really kicks some ass for us East Coasters. For too long, the West Coast guys have had a hammerlock on the nostalgia nitro Funny Car craze. Now we’re getting our dose of the...
Cool Video: King of the Hammers
Mar 25, 2009Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION, Videos
Three weeks ago our friend Fred Williams at 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine told us that he was going to compete in King of the Hammers, a rockcrawling off-road race held in Johnson Valley,...
F1 Pay Cut: Send Fernando Alonso a Few Bucks
Mar 25, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Brother, can you spare a dime for team Renault F1 driver Fernando Alonso? His pay was cut by 33% recently and instead of making a modest $17.5 million dollars a year, he will be forced to scrape by...
BangShift Chad Will Be On Site at Goodguys Pleasanton and Del Mar
Mar 25, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The real old Barris Batmobile is going to be on display at the Goodguys All-American Get-Together in Pleasanton, California, this weekend. They obviously didn’t know that our own BangShift Chad...
Lohnes Pic of the Week: Dude, Your ‘Chute is Hanging Out
Mar 25, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
One of the more embarrassing things that can happen to the pilot of a high-powered drag car is premature parachute ejection. If the condition persists for more than four hours consult a crew chief....
Site of the Week: Internet Car Movie Database
Mar 25, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Most people know about the Internet Movie Database. It’s a massive site that has info on just about every movie and television show ever made. A lot of people though, have no idea that there is...
Yates No. 28 Travis Kvapil NASCAR Team Shuts Down
Mar 25, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Don’t go looking for the number 28 on the track this weekend. ESPN and NASCAR.com are reporting that Yates Racing has suspended all operations of the team and sent most of the crew people to...
