Easy Bolt-In For Chevy II: American Powertrain’s New Trans Swap Crossmember Makes It Simple
Oct 17, 2012Chad ReynoldsSponsor News
The dudes at American Powertrain just keep coming up with more and more cool products. And since we’re in the middle of building an engine for a ’66 Chevy II, we thought this one was...
Chadmouth: More Travel Woes… Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Fly…
Oct 17, 2012Chad ReynoldsChadMouth
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a Chadmouth titled “Travel Rookies Suck”, that got a lot of interest and resulted in lots of comments, emails, and phone calls. If you didn’t catch...
Ebay Find: All Fiberglass ’69 Camaro On A G-Body Chassis… Weird? Cool? Hmmmmm
Oct 17, 2012Chad ReynoldseBay Find
Scott Payton, one of the geeks that keeps BangShift.com up and running on the web, sent us this one yesterday and we have to say it shocked us. We had never heard of Corbin Rods all fiberglass...
Another Test of Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer and Today’s Challenge!
Oct 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
Once again, there was no stumping the BangShift readership as Jim Forbes knocked it out of the park yesterday nailing the little four cylinder block we showed as an old Ford ‘banger out of a...
Drag Gallery: The Atlanta Dragway $10,000 Nostalgia Race – Gassers, Diggers, and Loads of Great Stuff!
Oct 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Another weekend down, and another nostalgia drag race is in the books. This time, it’s the Atlanta $10,000 race, held at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce,...
Buford Update: Our 9C1 Caprice Gets Real With Mickey Thompson Tires and Cragar Wheels
Oct 17, 2012Brian LohnesBuford - 9C1 Caprice, Project Cars
(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Last we left you, Project Buford T Justice was sitting on all four tires suspended by a complete Hotchkis Sport Suspension system and some hardcore...
Roadside Find: Whit Bazemore’s 1993 Fast Orange Dodge Daytona NHRA Nitro Funny Car Body!
Oct 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – BangShift contributor, Tommy Lee Byrd, took the scenic route to Atlanta Dragway this weekend and stumbled upon a rare sight—a dilapidated funny car...
Video: First 6-Second LS Powered Drag Radial Pass Ever
Oct 16, 2012Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION
Mark Carlyle put the smack down at the LSX Shootout at Lucas Oil Raceway Park and ran the very first 6-second Drag Radial pass by an LS Powered car in his super bitchin Corvette. The team has been...
Event Coverage: Lucas Oil Raceway Hosts NMCA World Street Nationals And LSX Shootout
Oct 16, 2012Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races
Indy is one of the most iconic dragstrips in the country, and when the NMCA rolled in for the LSX Shootout and World Street Finals this past weekend, the place was packed with bitchin big and small...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer And A New Challenge!
Oct 16, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
Yesterday I threw a tough one out there in this string of parts identification blog items. Basically I gave you two photos of an interesting looking engine block and asked you to identify it. Well...
Video: Watch Leon Smith And His Hot Rod Kenworth Take On The Toughest Canadian Big Rig Drag Racers Yet!
Oct 16, 2012Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
We can’t get enough of the balls out Canadian big rig drag racing scene, especially when it involves our favorite participant Leon Smith and his hot rod Kenworth dump truck. Sure it seems a wee...
Dead Guys, Dead Brands, Legendary Cars, and Coolness From The 1964 NY International Auto Show Program
Oct 16, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
Like today, companies and car manufacturers employed many different techniques in their ads back in the 1960s. The collection below, culled like so many others before it from the 1964 NY...
Gallery: Over 100 Wheelstand Photos From the 2012 NHRA Dutch Classic!
Oct 16, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We will make one guarantee with this gallery. In every single one of the 116 photos, at least one of the cars in the frame is hiking the front end up to the sky. Joe...
