BangShift Daily Tune Up: Drag Race Version Of The Star Spangled Banner. Tulsa Style
Jul 12, 2013Chad ReynoldsBS Daily Tune Up
This is awesome. The guys at Tulsa Raceway Park put this together and it’s just plain awesome. If this isn’t a good way to start off the road to a weekend of hot roddng, I don’t...
PowerShift LIVE: Tonight At 6pm Pacific. We Talk Street Racing, Monster Trucks, Video And More.
Jul 11, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
It’s been a week of hot and heavy content here at BangShift.com and tonight Chad and Brian are going to be bringing you a recap of their favorites, some hot topics, and more. We’ve even...
Bangshift Exclusive: Veteran Nitro Dragster Champion Going To The Dark (Funny) Side?
Jul 11, 2013Chad Reynolds1320 NHRA News, BangShift News
(Words and Photos Darr Hawthorne) Veteran Nitro Racer to the Dark Side? We’ve now heard from a number of sources that multi-event and March Meet Top Fuel Dragster winner Adam Sorokin will soon be...
Holley Releases New LS Oil Pan Baffle For Road Racers, AutoCrossers, Drag Racers And Anyone Who Needs Their Oil To Stay Put!
Jul 11, 2013Brian LohnesSponsor News
Every high performance car has its own specific needs. What works on a street machine that sees occasional drag strip duty may not be great for a car that gets pounded on at the road course or at...
Ebay Find: A 1971 Solid Axle Vega With BangShift History, Celebrity Status, And Dougan’s Horsepower
Jul 11, 2013Chad ReynoldseBay Find
If you don’t recognize this little Vega Wagon from our March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion coverage, then you haven’t been hanging around here very long. The little “Passin...
Buy The Book: Steve Magnante’s 1001 Muscle Car Facts
Jul 11, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News, New Products
When Steve Magnante recently told me that he had a muscle car facts book coming out, I was both excited and a little worried. Being a guy who reads lots of lots of books, many of which are about...
Event Coverage: Great Photos And Results From The Pro Mod vs. Fuel Altered Showdown In North Texas
Jul 11, 2013Chad Reynolds1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Photos and Text by Chris Graves, MaxCacklePhotos.com) After over a decade, the rivalry between the Texas Outlaw Pro Mods and Painless Performance Outlaw Fuel Altered Association was revived as...
Drag Gallery: The Pro Street Racing Association Invades Thunder Valley Dragway!
Jul 11, 2013Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Photos and words by Brad Klaassen) – Thunder Valley Raceway Park near Noble, Oklahoma pulled out all the stops for this month’s edition of their Pro Street Racing Association event this past...
BangShift Question Of The Day: It’s Illegal, Dangerous And Exciting. Street Racing. What Do You Think?
Jul 11, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
Let me start off by saying that here at BangShift.com we do not support or condone street racing. It is illegal and dangerous, and we know that. With that said, from the late ’80’s...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Detroit Made – John Hiatt
Jul 11, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
For whatever reason, there seems to be way more songs about giant Detroit iron than anything else. The good thing is that most of them are pretty good, this one included. In the tune you’ll...
Drag Video: Three Minutes Of Killer In-Car Action From 422 Motorsports Team Cars – Wheels Up And Gear Jamming Fun!
Jul 10, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Jim Amos has been creating killer drag racing video for longer than just about anyone on planet Earth. He tipped us off to some of his latest clips that will be made into a DVD soon that features...
Must Attend Show: Haddick’s Hot Rod And Custom Car Show. This Weekend In So Cal
Jul 10, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Just a couple years ago Newell Ruggles, the first BangShift.com contributor ever, decided that he was going to put on a car show at his families Haddick’s Auto Body and Towing facility. It...
Former Shelby Designer John Chun Passes At 84 – Instrumental in Late 1960s GT350/500 and Famed Company Logo
Jul 10, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
For many years, John Chun was known simply as the guy who ran the Chinese food restaurant in his small Minnesota town. Outside of his wife, no one ever really knew that Chun was a great designer who...
Video: Munster’s Drag-u-la Dragster Racing For Pinks
Jul 10, 2013Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION
Yesterday we got an interesting email from a BangShifter asking about this video of Grandpa Munster driving Drag-u-la. The video shows Grandpa trying to win back the Munster Koach after Herman lost...
