The Poncho Road Trip, Coming Soon
Jan 19, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Even before the Red Ball Express cross-country bucket brigade of our AMC Javelin begins, I’ve got some car deliverin’ to do. Our friend Todd Ryden at MSD Ignition scored this ’65...
Monday Time Killer: Twin-Engine Drag cars
Jan 19, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Our Monday Time Killer posts have often directed you to web sites with tons of photos to look at, and this one follows suit: It’s a site that claims to have 475-plus images of twin-engine drag...
Motorized Freak of the Week: Russian ZiL Screw-Propelled Truck Thing
Jan 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This week’s Freak entry is short on factoids but long on weird. This is the Russian ZiL-29601, a military vehicle that ditched the idea of wheels or tracks and went straight to giant screws....
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: New EPA Boss Wants States to Decide on Auto Emissions
Jan 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
With the new administration on the way into the White House next week, we’re thinking that cars and the car hobby are going to be under closer scrutiny than they have been in some time. The...
Gearhead Destination: The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum
Jan 15, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Knoxville, Iowa is the home of the Knoxville, Nationals. For the uninformed, that’s the biggest, baddest Sprint Car race in the world. It’s the US Nationals, Indy 500, and Wrestlemania...
Video of the Week: Chassis-Dyno Accidents
Jan 15, 2009Chad ReynoldsTECH, Videos
I nabbed four clips off of YouTube for this week’s videos, all of them showing what can go wrong on a chassis dyno. Many of us here have countless dyno pulls under our belts, and it’s...
Homegrown IRS for a ’66 Dodge Dart
Jan 15, 2009Chad ReynoldsSUSPENSION, Tech Stories
This is pretty fascinating and well done! A guy named David Belau is blogging over at CarDomain.com about how he’s installing a ’93 Thunderbird SuperCoupe IRS unit under his autocrossing...
The Violation Game: Interior Overkill
Jan 14, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
At first glance, this one would seem to be a gimme—the sort of thing that no one in our world could defend as even mildly acceptable. The Violations just keep on coming: instrumentation...
Site of the Week: Speedway Posters
Jan 14, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Over the past few years it’s become not at all unusual to be able to buy reproductions of pretty much any old speed poster you want, but this guy has a pretty cool blog site in conjunction with...
The Red Ball Express: How To Get a Junker Cross-Country For Free In 8 Easy Steps
Jan 14, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
By now most of you regulars know the wacky story of Freiburger trying to give away his dirt-track racer Javelin and how, on a dime, I became the recipient of this fine piece of machinery. The caveat...
Neat Gearhead Open House and Chassis Training Seminar
Jan 14, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
If we lived closer to Missouri, we’d totally be at Andy McCoy race Cars on February 21st to check out the shop and learn the ins and outs of chassis certifications. It would sure beat the hell...
New Stainless Pipes for New Challengers
Jan 14, 2009Brian LohnesNew Products
We like to complain about the weight of the new Challenger, but there’s another area that the well sculpted car lacks, and that’s sound. Obviously, OEM manufacturers can’t be...
Moroso Motorsports Park Conundrum
Jan 14, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve been following with some interest the revitalization of Florida’s former Moroso Motorsports Park since it was purchased by an ownership group last year. The new guys really went to...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Audi’s Group B Quattro S1
Jan 14, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
To fans of rally racing, Group B rally cars hold the same reverence that vintage Fuel Altereds do for drag racing fans. Something along the lines of, “That actually happened?!” Like the...
