New England Dragway Completes First of Several Major Track Upgrades
Nov 23, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
One of the NHRA’s newest member tracks, New England Dragway has completed the first of several major upgrades to the facility in order to prepare for a Full Throttle Series event a few years...
Ancient Tech Video: A WWII-Era Training Film on Hydrovac Truck Brakes
Nov 22, 2010Brian LohnesTECH, Videos
We spent the weekend in two places basically. The first was parked in front of our computer monitoring the live video feed from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas that we broadcast and...
Event Gallery: Hot Rod Revolution 2010 – Austin, Texas
Nov 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
For the first time in the history of the event The Hot Rod Revolution was held in Austin, Texas this year. After gaining a great reputation in Southern California, event organizers decided to switch...
Baja Ate Bill Caswell’s BMW
Nov 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The good news is that Bill Caswell actually made it to the Baja 1000 and started the race. The bad news is that the desert jumped up and bit the BMW, cutting the trip far short of the finish line....
2010 Street Car Super Nationals Final Results: Find Out Who Won!
Nov 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Here’s the place we’ll be posting the most up to date and current results we can get our grubby mitts on from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals held on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor...
Video Replay: Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsDRAG RACES, Event Coverage
BangShift.com is bringing you the biggest and baddest doorslammer drag racing action live as we broadcast the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals from Las Vegas November 20th and 21st. Lucas Oil, Chris...
URGENT: SEMA needs help to legalize racing in Michigan!
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Land Speed Racers, Drag Racers, Autocrossers Unite! This Legislative Alert from SEMA will change your life. SEMA is supporting a Bill in Michigan that will allow any municipality to issue a permit...
Pat Musi heads to Las Vegas hoping to hit the jackpot in Pro Street.
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Anyone who has had the pleasure of talking to Pat Musi in person, or who has seen him interviewed on TV knows that he’s one hell of a character and competitor. For this year’s Street Car...
AutoTrader Classics Find: 4-Speed Pro Street 1970 Mustang
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Is Pro Street Dead? That’s a question that still gets enthusiasts riled up, but one thing is for sure, people still can’t stop staring at them. You might not be a fan, but we dare you to...
All-Star Lineup set to go head to head in Pro Street Competition at the Street Car Super Nationals in Vegas
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
An All-Star lineup of Pro Street Competitors is funneling into The Strip at Las Vegas Motorspeedway in preparation for this weekend’s Street Car Super Nationals VI. Names like Renteria, Musi,...
Memphis Motorsports Park to be Auctioned on December 14th
Nov 17, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Memphis Motorsports Park, the former NHRA National event drag strip and circle track racing complex is going to the auction block. The track has been closed since 2009 when parent company Dover...
Backdraft: Neil Young’s Converted Electric 1959 Lincoln Blamed for Warehouse Fire
Nov 17, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Neil Young made a big deal about having a 1959 Lincoln convertible converted to a hybrid drivetrain. We were so skeeved out by the project we didn’t even report on it. The whole thing reached a...
Hilarious Video: Ken Block Ride Along Turns Adults Into Screaming Eight Year Old Girls
Nov 17, 2010Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
While this video is about a year old, the laughs you’ll get are timeless. Media darling Ken Block is the star of this one as he takes some unsuspecting rally video game players on a real life...
Project Car Spotlight: A Killer Stripper 1967 Chevelle 300
Nov 17, 2010Brian LohnesCHEVY, Project Cars
One of the neatest project cars in the BangShift.com universe is the 1967 Chevelle 300 of forum member 67pete300. The car is ultra clean, straight, and nice. We dig it more for what it isn’t...
