All-Time Carnage Video: Coach Bus Crash Testing
Aug 09, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
We’re total suckers for crash test video. We can watch cars smash into walls for days on end, but we’re now going to up our requirements. This is video of a coach-style bus being crash...
Another Big Drag Strip’s Future in Limbo
Aug 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Like the now defunct Memphis Motorsports Park before it, Gateway International Raceway, which is owned and controlled by the same company that killed MMP, is staring down the barrel of a gun. Dover...
Sad News: Top Fuel Hydroplane Champion John Haas Passes at IHBA event
Aug 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
John Haas, a multi-time and defending Top Fuel Hydroplane drag racer, was killed during the IHBA (International Hot Boat Association) Mid-America Summer Nationals on Saturday. His boat hit a small...
Video Carnage Bonanza: More Circle Track Spectator Drags Wreckage
Aug 09, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Few things we have posted over the years here at BangShift.com have gotten us the response that the recent video bonanza featuring spectator drags wreckage from circle tracks across the country...
Craigslist Find: A Death Trap Masquerading as a Snowmobile
Aug 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
When we were tipped off by a BangShift reader in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to this insane creation we didn’t know how to react. At first we kind of thought it was a joke, and then the more we...
Rumor Confirmed: New England Dragway to Race Under NHRA Sanction in 2011
Aug 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
BangShift.com has confirmed, through discussions with highly placed sources that New England Dragway, a longtime IHRA national event facility will switch sanctions at the end of the 2010 season and...
The Parting Shift: Bumper Cam Footage of Bob Self’s 218mph Ford GT From Loring, Maine
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Bob Self’s totally bad ass 2006 Ford GT can lay claim to being the fastest car at Loring, Maine during the 2010 LTA event. Bob ran this monster to a 218mph lap and it sounded as sweet as...
Mustang Outsells Camaro by Three Cars in July
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The battle royale between the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro continued in earnest through the month of July, 2010, with the two in a virtual dead heat for sales during that time period. Only three...
BangShift Project Car Spotlight: A Crazy Tube-Chassis Fiero From the Netherlands
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Car Features, Project Cars
One of the truly cool things about this whole BangShift deal is the fact that we’re international. Guys are building nasty hot rods all over the world and thankfully we’re able to see...
Video: In-Car Foootage of a Run Up The Big Eliminator at Gravelrama
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
If there is one event we’re going to commit ourselves to checking out in 2011, it is Gravelrama, held every year in Cleves, Ohio. A veritable orgy of horsepower, rock crawling, flat drags,...
NHRA Unleashed: BangShift’s Chad Reynolds Announcing at Indy This Weekend!
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you are in the greater Indy area this weekend, August 6-8, make sure to stop by O’Reilly Raceway Park to check out the NHRA’s new Unleashed series and the dulcet announcing tones...
Mecum Auctioning Off Pieces of Reggie Jackson’s Car Collection Next Weekend, Jaw Dropping Stuff
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Mecum at Monterey auction, to be held August 13-14 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey, California, will feature 15 cars from the private collection of Reggie “Mr. October” Jackson, who is...
Great Read: Tommy Ivo’s Tow Rig History
Aug 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Tommy Ivo is rightfully known as drag racing’s first great showman. He had awesome looking cars that ran up to their appearance, and even his towing equipment was top shelf. He understood that...
Epic Crane Fail Video: Crane Drops Another Crane
Aug 05, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Driving a crane must be cool, but as this video will show, there are certainly risks both physical and financial. In this clip, you’ll see a huge crane lifting a smaller road going crane with...
