Video: Watch The Ridetech Factory Five ’33 Hot Rod Lay Waste To A Lambo On the Road Course!
Feb 19, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
The Ridetech ’33 Factory Five Hot Rod has been a force to be reckoned with since appearing on road courses and autocross tracks across the country in 2012. Bret Voelkel drove the car to a...
Craigslist Find: A Cantara Camaro – Or The Weirdest Third-Gen Body Kit We’ve Ever Seen
Feb 19, 2013Brian LohneseBay Find
Reader Brian Kanen sent us a Craigslist link to what has to be the oddest third-gen Camaro we’ve ever seen that was “professionally” built. This car is a so called Cantara Camaro...
Nostalgia Drags Gallery: The 2012 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Feb 19, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – One of the coolest nostalgia drag racing and hot rod events in New England doesn’t happen at a drag strip at all. Instead it happens at an airport in central...
MSD DYNAFORCE Alternators: A Race Alternator That Works
Feb 18, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift News, Sponsor News
I’ve always found it incredibly annoying to race with someone that doesn’t have an alternator on their race car. Even worse is the guy that has one but it is so poorly installed it might...
Sideways, with Rodney Prouty: An Average Hot Rodders Adventures In Car Building And Racing
Feb 18, 2013Chad ReynoldsSideways
The first Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, got great feedback and Rodney is really cranking on these things because we already have another in the can for next week. Read on. As always with Rodney,...
Antron Brown 2013 Winternationals Crash Video – Here It Is
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Of all the crazy stuff that happened during the 2013 NHRA Winternationals, Antron Brown’s scary high speed wreck was by far the worst. As you’ll see in the video below Brown’s...
Question of the Day: Who Is the Most Volatile Personality in Racing History?
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
All disciplines of racing are stressful and potentially dangerous. There’s a certain type of person that finds racing cars to be an appealing exercise and those people don’t tend to be...
Buford T Justice Update: A Very Frustrating Day On The Dyno And How We’re Planning To Fix It
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesBuford - 9C1 Caprice, Project Cars
So first, I’ll lead with an apology. This update was supposed to run last week but a blizzard and a bunch of other stuff jumped up and caused the delay. With the amount of email, text, forum,...
Gallery: The Rumble Cats Hot Rod Club – Rally In The Alley 2013 – Spring, Texas
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Texas scene is rolling and our man Charles Wickam is on the scene bringing us great photos as the glaciers close in around BS eastern world hq. Charles hit the...
Dead Drag Strip File: A Visit To The Sleeping Remains Of Seneca Dragstrip – Northern Illinois First Strip!
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Recently, Bob Chiluk and I made the trek out to Seneca, Illinois to visit the remains of Seneca Dragstrip. Never heard of it? Not many people have, it was...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – (1971)
Feb 18, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
A bunch of different bands and artists have covered the song Hot Rod Lincoln over the year but my all time favorite is the version of the tune by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen that was...
Blow It Up Sunday: Jack Beckman’s Crazy NHRA Fuel Funny Car Explosion At Pomona
Feb 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsCRASH & BURN
As the NHRA season opener Winternationals is underway today in Pomona, we thought it would be appropriate to show our pal Jack Beckman’s 2012 Pomona explosion that happened mere months ago at...
Blow It Up Sunday: A Chevy Van Tests The Rev Limiter… And The Connecting Rods. Which One Fails First?
Feb 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsCRASH & BURN
We are firm believers in testing all the available options on rental cars, new cars, etc. This of course means the rev limiter as well. And various manufacturers have very different rev limiters that...
Blow It Up Sunday: Watch This Turbo Motor Explode Spectacularly On The Dyno
Feb 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsCRASH & BURN
For this Sunday we decided it was going to be all about exposions. Engines blowing up, cars blowing up, rods and pistons getting away from crankshafts, etc. It’s awesome. Watch in this video as...
