New Helmet Removal System Mandated for NHRA Pro Classes in 2010
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
An interesting new piece of safety equipment will be mandatory for NHRA competitors in the sanction’s quickest and fastest classes for the 2010 season. The Eject helmet removal system is being...
Pinks All Out Announces 2010 Schedule: Large Venues Abound
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Pinks All Out has been a smashing success for the SPEED Network over the last few seasons. The show, which grew out of the original Pinks series, takes 400 racers at each track and boils them down to...
Carnage Video: Un-F’ing-Believable In-Car View of a Massive Clutch Explosion
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
This one will blow your mind, and driver Tony Defelices is lucky that nothing else got blown off during this massive clutch explosion in his PSI-blown 1967 Camaro. Though the car is left-hand drive,...
Video and Tech: We Fix the Brakes and Drive Goliath, Our Project C50 Truck
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We recently made some progress wrenching on our big 1964 Chevy C50 that we’ve named Goliath. We repaired the rear brakes and got the truck functional enough to actually attempt driving it on...
Video: Even More SEMA and Street Car Invitational Coverage From Ridetech.com
Dec 01, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, OTHER, Videos
The 2009 SEMA Show is a memory by now, but you can relive it with the most recent coverage posted by BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech. The company introduced a bunch of new products at the show,...
Weirdo: The 1969/2010 Camaro SS Concept by Danz Custom
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Our friends over at Autoblog unearthed photos of this strange Camaro built by a shop in Wisconsin called Danz Custom. Autoblog totally panned the car. We’re not too hot on the way it looks,...
Abandoned Drag Strip History: Dover Drag Strip in Wingdale, New York, With Video
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Dover Drag Strip operated in Wingdale, New York, from 1961-1976, and is now a ghost track with nothing but the return road still in place. The track is still remembered with a web site operated by...
The Forgotten Sports Car Decade, The 1950s
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It tends to be forgotten, but the 1950s were hot with traditional sports cars. Little cars from Europe, combined with some interesting domestic models, made for a strong marketplace of cars that...
SoCal BangShifters, Be at the NHRA Museum Cruise and Toy Drive Dec. 2
Dec 01, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
If you live anywhere in Southern California, it’s totally worth it to come to the NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona on Wednesday night, December 2, from 4 to 8 pm, for the annual Prolong Cruise...
Book Review: Proving Ground – A History of Dodge, Chrysler, and Plymouth Racing by Jim Schild
Dec 01, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Chrysler’s true golden age of racing and performance came during the 1960s and early 1970s. This week’s literary selection, Proving Ground: A History of Dodge, Chrysler, and Plymouth...
