2011 Hot Rod Power Tour Locations and Dates Announced
Oct 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Forum Freaks of the world unite! Hot Rod Magazine has announced the dates and stop locations for the 2011 version of the Power Tour. GM Performance Division is back as the presenting sponsor of the...
Crash and Burn: Richard Petty Motorsports Appears To Be Finished
Oct 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well, there seems to be one NASCAR team that won’t need to worry about the introduction of electronic fuel injection in 2011. Richard Petty Motorsports appears to be financially insolvent. Team...
More Diesel Death Video: A Land Rover Smoke Machine
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
We can’t help ourselves. After seeing the Toyota van run itself to death we kept on searching for videos and found one featuring a Land Rover that had just been started for the first time after...
Quaker City Raceway Auctioned: Will Remain a Drag Strip; We Rejoice
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Finally, the good guys win one! After a year filled with high profile drag strip closures, Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Ohio, went to auction and was purchased by a man who vowed to keep it open as...
Not Green: A Runaway Toyota Diesel Dies In a Massive Cloud of Smoke
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
The runaway diesel engine is an interesting thing. The condition can be brought on by a number of factors. In this case it was apparently caused by overfilling the engine with oil. With no throttle...
Video Update: Spectre Speedliner goes 415 mph at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout
Oct 21, 2010Chad ReynoldsEvent Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, Videos
A few weeks ago we posted this item, but now there’s some cool video (below) to see. Already the fastest Cadillac powered vehicle in history, the Spectre Speedliner just went 415.7 miles per...
CackleFest Video from the 2010 California Hot Rod Reunion at AutoClub Famoso Raceway
Oct 21, 2010Chad ReynoldsCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Videos
If you saw our live broadcast of all the racing action at the 19th Annual NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion presented by Auto Club of Southern California, and Justice Brothers, you know that Nostalgia...
Score Ridetech’s New 130-Page Catalog FREE!
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We got word on the executive tip line that our buddies at Ridetech are offering their brand new 130pg catalog for free to anyone who requests one. There are no strings attached and just a simple...
eBay Find: A Factory Supercharged 1954 Kaiser Manhattan
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
Believe it or not, the 1954 Kaiser Manhattan was the first car to offer a factory supercharger after WWII. While that sounds sexy and exciting, you have to realize that the blower was forcing air...
Watch Hot Rod’s Rob Kinnan and His Lemons Team Finish Their Car at Craftsman Experience Live
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Hot Rod Magazine editor Rob Kinnan (seen in the photo snoozing on the salt in 2008) will be at Chicago’s Craftsman Experience with his 24 Hours of Lemons team wrenching on their car to get it...
Website of the Week: A Massive Collection of Race Driver Biographies
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’re unrepentant racing history geeks here at BangShift and we know lots of you out there in reader land are too. We got tipped off to the most incredible collection of stories and biographies...
Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...
Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza 2010
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
From the Long Beach, California area, we now whisk you to League City, Texas, where our Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam attended the Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza car show. This was a...
Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – September 2010
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, SWAP MEETS, Swap Meets
Our intrepid West Coast correspondent Scott Liggett dragged himself out of bed in the pre-dawn hours a couple of weeks back to hit the September version of California’s vaunted Long Beach Swap...
