John Rains Sets Mustang Cobra Jet Top Speed Mark At Mojave Mile Event
Mar 23, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
a name that may be familiar to you if you follow the worlds of land speed racing or NHRA drag racing. He runs a killer ’68 Hemi Dart SS/AH car in drag racing competition and has hauled...
Project Goliath Update: The One Cylinder Rebuild, Part One
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Tech Stories
The great thing about having a couple of project vehicles beating around here at BangShift.com is that our pain and suffering gets to become your entertainment! This is the first of a two-part story...
Video: More Mud-Based Bad-Assery From Bithlo Motorsports Park
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Last week we dropped some killer video of huge trucks flying through the air at Orlando, Florida’s Bithlo Motorsports Park. There’s no hang time in this video but there is one kick ass...
Roadside Find: A Killer Tennessee Junkyard Hidden in Plain Sight
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Intrepid BangShift.com reader Phil Cooper sent us an awesome batch of photos he took on a recent trip through Tennessee. Phil was minding his own business driving down the road when he came upon...
Register for the Midwest Musclecar Challenge. It Will be on Fox TV!
Mar 22, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Time is running out for preregistration to the Midwest Musclecar Challenge, and you don’t want to miss it. Sign up online by clicking here and registering before April 1 to save $50 over...
Gallery: The March 2010 Long Beach Swap Meet
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, SWAP MEETS
The first Long Beach Swap Meet of the spring of 2010 came with real “chamber of commerce” type weather. The sun was out and promised warm temps from the moment it peeked over the San...
70 MPH is the New 55
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
This will not come as a shock to anyone, but it seems that most people move down the highway closer to 70 mph than 55. We were tipped off to a Wall Street Journal story which highlighted some data,...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool 1969 Buick Sport Wagon
Mar 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
If it seems like the last few RacingJunk.com finds we’ve made have been wagons it’s because they have been. We’re not seeking wagons only, it’s just that we keep finding these...
English Cops Stop Woman Driving With Hood Up, Not A Fake Story
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
You literally cannot make this stuff up. English coppers were out in droves earlier this month running a campaign they call “No Excuses” aimed at identifying dangerous drivers. They...
Friday Nitro Video: Don Prudhomme Fires Up His Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Flopper
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Don Prudhomme hung up his drag racing spurs prior to the 2010 NHRA season. Without a major sponsor to support his racing operation, the Snake wasn’t going to run a sub-standard team, so...
CraigsList Find: 1950s Kurtis-Kraft Quarter Midget Racer
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We like that our own kiddos run around with Cozy Coupes, but in the 1950s and ’60s, it was commonplace for hot rodding toddlers and pre-teens to race around in Quarter Midgets. There’s...
Hellion Releases Twin Turbo Setup for Dodge SRT8 Platform, We Drool
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesNew Products
Hellion Power Systems first lept to fame with twin turbo kits for blown Mustang Cobras that made 1,000 hp to the rear wheels. We’ve seen some cars with their stuff installed and they make...
Crazy Video: In Car Footage of a Sleepy Cab Driver Rolling His Cab Over
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
In a previous life, when we had a job that required us to oversee a company fleet operation, we worked a deal with a company called Drive Cam, which installed unique cameras in our trucks. Drive Cam...
New Product: New Street/Strip Valve Springs From COMP Cams
Mar 19, 2010Brian LohnesNew Products
COMP Cams has debuted a newly designed valve spring that, while intended for the LS engine crowd, has characteristics that would make it a good fit for a broad range of motors running a street/strip...
