Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
This is a pulling event we have to try! It takes place on asphalt and is completely basic in nature. There’s a sled with concrete blocks chained to a truck and the truck’s job is to drag...
RacingJunk Find: A ’56 Pontiac Chieftain Drag Car
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
After seeing all that cool stuff at the Hunnert Car Shootout, we decided to go looking for an awesome, old school racer for ourselves. We piled through all sorts of ’55 through ’57...
Monday Time Killer: The Mother Load of Info on 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC Trucks
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’re not going to say that 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC trucks are unloved, but we will say that they are under-loved when compared to trucks of the previous generation and the following 1967-1972...
Historic Carnage Video: Major Wreckage On the Old Beach Course At Daytona
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
We unearthed this radical ancient video of Modified jalopies whooping it up on the Daytona Beach circle track in the late ’40s or early ’50s. These guys really thrashed the cars, almost...
Event Coverage: The 2010 Hunnert Car Shootout from Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove, Wisconsin
May 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage
The Chrome Czars car club of Chicago put on the second annual Hunnert Car Shootout. These are the same guys who host and run the humongo Hunnert Car Pileup retro-rod show. Think of this as a...
The Parting Shift: Stretching the Legs of a Dual Quad 1964 Buick Wildcat
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
This week’s Parting Shift is a change of pace. We’re stepping away from the race track and all the transmission violence in favor of some good old fashioned muscle getting a leg stretch....
Crazy Video: An Alky-Burning Drag Race Lawn Tractor
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
You’d laugh at us if we told you that there are lunatics out there racing 100hp, alky burning, two-step equipped lawn tractors. Impossible, right? Wrong. The escaped mental patient driving the...
NHRA Unleashed Teams Up with ORSCA
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
NHRA has teamed up with the Outlaw Racing Street Car Association to solidify the racing operations end of the new “NHRA Unleashed” series. This four-race series will feature heads-up...
Fuego Video: Little Car, Big Flames
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
After getting all nostalgic for LACR we decided to go hunting for some cool video action from the track. Unfortunately we only got as far as the staging lanes. This video shows a cool old Lloyd that...
Will A Mega-Strip Replace The Void Left by the Closing of Los Angeles County Raceway?
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
While it is always great news to hear of new drag strips being proposed in California, our happiness is tempered by the bleak track record of such projects in recent history. The latest project that...
Craigslist Find: A Nicely Done 1989 Cammer-motored ‘Stang
May 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’re starting to come around to the whole, “stick a DOHC Cobra motor in a Fox-bodied Mustang” thing. Even if just for the crowd reactions at car shows and the strip, it’s...
Speedway Motorsports Announces First Quarter Earnings
May 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s safe to say that the racetrack business is still profitable, but not as much as it was in 2009. Speedway Motorsports Inc, otherwise known as O. Bruton Smith’s company, made a pile of...
Ridetech Announces Cool Power Tour Shirt Offer
May 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The boys at Ridetech are at it again! If you’ve been around BangShift.com since we first launched you know that Ridetech has been with us from the get go. They’re always thinking up and...
NHRA Says Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Still on For Beech Bend Raceway
May 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The NHRA has announced that the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is still on for Father’s Day weekend and will be held at the currently submerged Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green,...
