Nitro Video: A Nitro Guzzling Flat Four VW Dragster That Goes 7s (and Could Go Into the 6s!)
Sep 09, 2011Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Yesterday we told you about a slingshot powered by a nitro burning Jeep engine and today we’re bringing you more oddly awesome nitro powered stuff! This video is of the Wolfgang International...
Last Day of Voting: The First BangShift Burnout Battle Ends Today!
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Consider this a sneak preview of coming attractions here at BangShift. We’re planning on a weekly burnout contest called the BangShift Burnout Battle! The details are still being worked out...
Big Drag Gallery: The 2011 Yellow Bullet Nationals
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
The second Yellow Bullet Nationals did lots of stuff. It showcased some of the best doorslammer racers in the country, it packed Cecil County Dragway, and best of all, it silenced all the idiots who...
Event Gallery: The 2011 Paw Paw Pull in the Park – Paw Paw, Illnois
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, OTHER, Truck / Tractor Events
We normally get photo dispatches from Greg Rourke that feature cool shows, drag strip action, and muscle car hooliganism. This time we’re heading to the smoking section with pulling tractors...
Racing Junk Find: A Slingshot Dragster Sporting A Nitro Slurping Jeep Straight Six
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
There are lots of unique slingshot dragsters out there but we’re for sure this is the only one in the world that runs down the track with power provided by a nitro drinking Jeep straight six...
More Vintage Carnage: The King and Marshall AA/FD Climbs the Stairway to Heaven!
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
We’re back again with more crazy video from Jim Knights at Lebanon Valley Dragway. On the same weekend of the insane Funny Car Wreck we showed you earlier, Ray Helger, driving the historic King...
Funny Car Wreckage: A Video Flip Book of a Flopper Burnout Gone Very Wrong
Sep 08, 2011Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Driving a Funny Car of any significance is pretty serious business. Just because it doesn’t have a huge huffer, nitro running through the fuel system, or potential to run 300mph doesn’t...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 Countdown: Rumors, Reality, and More!
Sep 08, 2011Chad ReynoldsDRAG RACES, Event Coverage
It’s September boys and girls and that means the baddest street cars on the planet are about to embark on the most bitchin road trip in history; Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, presented by...
End of the Line: Ford Crown Victoria Production to Cease at the End of September Despite Sales Surge
Sep 07, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Police departments are rushing to get their final orders in for the venerable Ford Crown Victoria sedans that have served them so well for decades as it has been announced production will cease at...
Great Video: Hot Cars, Hot Laps, and Melting Tires at Norway’s Arctic Circle Raceway
Sep 07, 2011Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
We were tipped off to this great video by BangShift member Blazerteam, who happens to live in a Norwegian town called Mo i Rana. He’s a huge gearhead with a wild big block Chevy powered...
BangShift Sponsors tear it up at the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge
Sep 07, 2011Chad ReynoldsEvent Coverage, OTHER
BangShift Sponsors Detroit Speed, Ridetech and Spectre Performance were all on hand at this past weekend’s Midwest Muscle Car Challenge where, as usual, they tore it up in grand fashion. The...
Wild Carnage Video: Tony Kanaan Flies Over Helio Castroneves, Walks Away
Sep 07, 2011Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Crazy stuff happens when open wheel race cars get together. Two of the best guys in the business of driving said open wheel cars are Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves. They had a violent encounter...
Ridetech takes 3 of 4 class wins at Goodguys Kansas Autocross…Full Results Here
Sep 07, 2011Chad ReynoldsCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Not since Britney Spears and Madonna has going both ways been such a hit, and who knew that it would apply to shocks just as much as hot chicks? Ever since Ridetech came out of the closet and...
Combo Show Gallery: The Country Cruisers and Kauffman’s Chicken Farm Car Shows
Sep 06, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Rain totally sucks. It kills attendance at shows, closes the drag strip, and makes working on your junk outside a deplorable experience. Doug Garrison, our intrepid Pennsylvanian photog, donned his...
