Report: NHRA To Sanction Tracks Worldwide
Nov 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Respected drag racing journalist Rob Geiger is reporting that the NHRA will be sanctioning drag strips in the Middle East in the neat future. This is huge news in the sense that the organization will...
EBay Pick of the Week: Wild Blown Hemi Powered Street Legal Bantam Altered
Nov 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, we share the same mental illness. Our thought process when we laid eyes on this wild hunk of iron jumped directly to Hot Rod’s Drag Week. It...
Monday Time Killer: Tons of Bonneville Pics From the Last 10 Years
Nov 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This week’s Time Killer will have you spending some quality time on the salt at Bonneville. We happened upon this major league collection of photos while doing some research on another story...
Columnist: NHRA Rules and NASCAR Sucks
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Jeff Wolf is a highly respected columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. He often has interesting takes on the worlds of drag racing and Stock Car racing. He never spares the rod when he...
Mendy Fry Set to Haul the Mail in Pomona This Weekend
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The end of the NHRA season is upon us once again. It all comes to a screeching halt this weekend in Pomona, Califoria, at the Auto Club Finals. Aside from the normal slate of Sportsman and Pro racing...
Living Legends of Auto Racing Ripped Off By Rogue Employee
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Living Legends of Auto Racing is an organization that works hard to preserve the history of racing on Daytona Beach and of all the the pioneers of Stock Car racing. Unfortunately for them, the...
Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Dan Strohl over at Hemmings has ROSS (Rusty Old Stuff Syndrome) just as bad as we do. Being that he works for Hemmings, Dan digs awesome stuff up that’s for sale all the time. This instance...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This week’s CraigsList find comes from the lovely burg of Quincy, Illinois. Long story short, it’s a great 1965 Chevelle that spent a couple of decades snoozing in the back of a barn. The...
Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve talked about columnists and writers who were in the tank for NASCAR in the past, but we’ve reached a new level on that front with a recent column that appeared on Bleacherreport.com...
A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...
Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...
Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...
LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...
Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
A while back we featured Wayne Sheeley’s crazy nuts Jeep FC-170 truck. It has been highly modified for off road action and was voted in by readers as a competitor at the wild Four Wheeler...
