Hot Rod Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors – Wheelstand Sequence of the Day – A Neat Poncho Leaps Out of the Hole
Sep 14, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
From one end of the wheelstand spectrum to another with today’s glimpse at the drag strip gymnastics that went down in Great Bend, Kansas on Tuesday. Yesterday we showed you a massive...
Hot Rod Drag Week Day Two Gallery – Great Bend, Kansas
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
2011 Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors rolled into Great Bend, Kansas for the second day of action. The results were much like the first when it comes to the Unlimited realm of...
Breaking Drag Week News: Project Sick Seconds is OUT!
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Chad has just informed me that the Sick Seconds Camaro, driven by Jeff Lutz has retired from competition on Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week. The team was struggling mightily today to get the car...
Nitro Video: The Beauty of a Perfect Nostalgia Fueler Run at Night
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
We got a note in our e-mail box from pal Cole Coonce, tipping us off to some video he shot over the weekend at Bakersfield, where the big “Saturday Night Nitro” match race was slated to...
Quick Pics – The Drag Week Thrashing has Begun in the Pits and in Parts Store Parking Lots
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Reports of busted cars, knuckles, and spirits are rolling in after the first day at Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 presented by Gear Vendors. As we get the photos of said breakage and thrashing, we’ll...
Hot Rod Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors – Wheelstand Sequence of the Day – Jon Huber’s Four-Banger Turbo Stang
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’re total suckers for a good wheelstand sequence, and there should be a bunch of them coming from Chad’s lens this week on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2011 presented by Gear Vendors. On...
UPDATE: Hot Rod Drag Week – Day One News, Video and Huge Gallery – Topeka, Kansas
Sep 13, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
The quarter mile combat at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors 2011 has officially begun! It was a big day at Heartland Park of Topeka, where the largest field of Drag Week racers in...
VOTE NOW — BangShift Burnout Battle: A Hot Rodded Harley and a Healthy Mustang Burn ’em to the Cords
Sep 12, 2011Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
For our second installment of the minty-fresh BangShift Burnout Battle, we’ve got two guys from Massachusetts slugging it out in very different ways. Mike and Jeff were the first two guys to...
Photo Link: 1320Video’s 2011 Hot Rod Drag Week Gallery From Topeka
Sep 12, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
We’re not the only embedded media unit on the 2011 Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors. Our pal Kyle Loftis of 1320Video is out shooting lots of killer video and photos as...
Screaming Dyno Video: Repeated 9000-RPM Pulls on a NASCAR Engine Being Converted to EFI
Sep 12, 2011Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
One of the latest videos from the prolific Nelson Racing Engines shop is a near eight minute cut of dyno testing a legit ex-NASCAR engine that the shop converted over to EFI for a Bonneville team. It...
Photo Link: Optima Batteries Coverage of the 2011 Holley LS Fest
Sep 12, 2011Brian LohnesEvent Coverage, OTHER
It was another great weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky as the second annual Holley LS Fest went down at historic Beech Bend Raceway just a couple days ago. Our own Chad Reynolds was in town to serve...
Saturday Night Nitro Lives on Both Coasts; Bakersfield, CA and Epping, NH Both Hosting Big Flopper Match Races This Weekend
Sep 09, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
When we got tipped off about the big Saturday Night Nitro show happening at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield this weekend, we smiled widely. The reason? About 3000 miles east of Famoso, New England...
Explosion Video: Scary Footage of a Big Rig Tire Exploding on German Firefighters
Sep 09, 2011Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
If this video doesn’t make you cringe, we don’t know what will. The footage shows a team of (reportedly) German firefighters showing up on the scene of a burning trailer that was being...
Gateway International Raceway is Latest Drag Strip to Rise From the Ashes; On NHRA 2012 Schedule
Sep 09, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Dead drag strips seem to be crawling out of their graves like zombies this summer and that’s a-OK with us! Gateway International Raceway, just outside of St. Louis, Missouri has been lifeless...
