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Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance

As we predicted, the crew at Spectre Performance rocketed into the record books on Sunday with a two run average of 324mph to shatter the existing A/BGS record by a large margin of nearly 50mph. The...

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Saturday – Presented by Spectre Performance

As day two of Bonneville Speed Week 2010 dawned, the Spectre Performance crew saw themselves in line as the first streamliner of the day. Driver and company owner Amir Rosenbaum needed to make a...

Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Friday – Presented by Spectre Performance

Spectre Performance has stepped up huge to become the presenting sponsor of BangShift’s 2010 Bonneville Speed Week coverage. That means our own Chad Reynolds will be on the salt as of Sunday...

See All the BangShift.com Photos and Videos of 2010 Bonneville Speed Week Here

BangShift.com is all over the 2010 Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats. We are bringing you photo and video coverage all week long, so come back regularly for updates and results, as we’re...

The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.

As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...

Dumbass Alert: Thieves Use Bulldozer to Steal ATM, Lose ATM

The media is always so inaccurate. When we saw the headline that thieves had used a “bulldozer” to steal an ATM in Detroit we were expecting to see a Caterpillar D8 in the middle of a...

Virtual Reality: Incredible Engine Renderings From Cosworth

The name Cosworth conjures up images of Formula One cars screaming around European road courses. It also conjures up the name of the rare Vega model that used an engine topped with a cylinder head...

Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price

Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...

Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage

With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds hurtling east to attack the salt with wall to wall coverage courtesy of Spectre Performance this year, we thought we’d remind you of all the greatness that...

Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes

Aeromotive has once again changed the fuel system game with the introduction of their Stealth System for 2003 1/2 and up Corvettes. This is a complete drop in fuel system that slides right into the...

Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon

We’re getting into Bonneville mode already as Speed Week has already gotten off the ground with tech inspection yesterday. We were planning on finding some clapped out junk Bonneville for Chad...

Barnstormin’: It’s About the Show, Stupid

With the recent announcement that New England Dragway will be leaving the IHRA to race under the NHRA banner in 2011, I’ve been thinking a lot about the format change that IHRA made coming into...

EcoRace: Roush Yates to Hot Rod EcoBoost V6 Engines for American LeMans Series

When Ford’s EcoBoost turbo V6 engine hit the shelves and dealerships, we were wondering if it would gain any traction as a racing engine at some point. It makes great power from the factory and...

Video Bonanza: Fun With Military Deuce and a Half 6×6 Trucks

The M35 family of trucks that have been serving the military for decades certainly do not get the amount of love that the little WWII-era Jeeps get with respect to their vital role in the service,...