eBay Find: An Awesome Tracked Slow Plow We’re Not Getting for Christmas
Dec 24, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
With tonight being the “big night” with respect to visits from Santa Claus, we’re too late to edit our wish list. In the event we had another week or two, this kick ass little...
BangShift.com Approved Re-Run: Nitromethane on a Budget With a Carb and Stock Heads!
Dec 23, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Chuck Noble is a name that we were familiar with long before we actually met the man. Chuck’s been around the drag racing scene in New England for a while and ran a totally bad ass, blown,...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: Altered Wheelbase Mopars, Fuel Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, and a Tragic Fire
Dec 23, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
This is one of the coolest vintage drag racing videos we’ve dug up so far in our years of trolling YouTube. It features never before seen footage of some legendary altered wheelbase Mopar...
Crazy Wreckage Sequence Re-Run: A Dragster Pulls a Backflip
Dec 23, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
While our eyes were trained on the 52nd March Meet, the IHRA was holding their second event of the 2010 season down in Louisiana at State Capitol Raceway, March 5-7. One of the things that the IHRA...
Racing Junk Find: A Gorgeous 1964 Pontiac Catalina with Tri-Power 421 Power
Dec 23, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
Early 1960s Pontiacs have a class all their own. In their time, not much was capable of hanging with them on the strip. The 421ci Super Duty engine was legend and having a street car sporting that...
Barnstormin’: A Pre-Christmas Brain Cleanse
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
I’ll let you know right up front that this will probably be the most disjointed column you’ve ever read with about half of it having anything to do with cars, trucks, tractors, or...
Car Feature Re-Run: 10-second, Pump Gas, Big-Block Chevy Powered 1970 Buick Skylark
Dec 22, 2010Brian Lohnes1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature
Throw your nitrous away and leave your turbo at the door. Tom Spinella’s 1970 Buick, powered by a 489ci big-block Chevy, cruises at 65 mph and nearly runs 9s on 93 octane straight out of the...
Last Minute BangShift Chistmas Must Have: Pro Stock Drag Racing Photo History by Lou Hart
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Lou Hart has released some awesome drag racing photo collection books over the course of the last several years, but nothing has come close to this amazing opus to the class of Pro Stock. Pro Stock...
Bangshift Question of the Day: Do You Have a Favorite Old School Monster Truck
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
There’s been a resurgence in old school monster trucks recently. So much so that there is an effort to open an international monster truck museum and hall of fame celebrating the...
Odd Vintage Stunt Video: Jim Bullet Bailey at OCIR Circa 1981
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Unlike Captain Jack McClure, stuntman Jim “Bullet” Bailey is 100% dead. But that’s jumping ahead. Bailey gained some level of fame in the 1970s and (very) early 1980s by becoming a...
Chrysler Registers the Word Cuda as a Trademark, We Dunno Why
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The website AllPar.com, known for being 100% Par and free of any artificial fillers is reporting that the Chrysler Corporation has registered the word “Cuda” as an official trademark....
Epic eBay Find: A Modern DUKW Made From Either an H1, H2, or Mercedes G55!
Dec 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
Greatest….body kit….ever! This is an H20 ASPT Ocean Rover, not a vintage military DUKW amphibious vehicle. According to the eBay ad, these can be made from a Hummer H1, H2, or Mercedes...
Big Willie Robinson is coming to the Big Screen
Dec 21, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
We’d love to give you more details, but the truth is we don’t have many. What we do know is that Big Willie Robinson has been signed for a movie, to be shot here in Southern California,...
Three Historic Pro Stocks to hit the Block at Mecum Auction in January
Dec 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Three cars that seemingly make up the holy trinity of early Pro Stockers will hit the auction block at the Mecum Auction to be held January 26-30 in Kissimmee, Florida. A Sox and Martin Hemi...
