Video: A Holley Equipped Twin Turbo LS Drag Week Motor Hits The Dyno At Steve Morris Racing Engines
Jul 18, 2013Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Drag Week competitor Clark Rosenstengel is stepping up his game in a major league way for Drag Week 2013 and we have video evidence! In 2012 Clark raced his 2010 Camaro in the Street Race small block...
Saturday Night Nitro: Records Fall, Heat Rises, And The Bakersfield Boise Blitz Is In Full Swing
Jul 18, 2013Chad Reynolds1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Text and Photos by Darr Hawthorne, Photos Paul Schmitz) Another hot Kern County, California weekend welcomed nitro cars to the second Saturday Night Nitro event of 2013 to Auto Club Famoso...
Gallery: The 12th Annual Muscle Car Madness at the York Reunion – Drag Cars, Muscle, and More!
Jul 18, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – York US 30 was shuttered way back in 1979 but the memories and history of the legendary Drag Strip continue to draw old racers and fans back to York, Pa once...
Burnout Video: Watch A Crusty Maverick Sleeper Destroy A Set of Slicks
Jul 18, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
(Words by Tommy Lee Byrd) – If you’re thinking this car looks familiar, then you might remember us posting a video of it making a sketchy pass on the drag strip a few months back. The owner...
Event Photos: Hot Rod and Street Rod Photos From The PPG Nationals In Columbus
Jul 18, 2013Chad ReynoldsCAR SHOWS
We told you we would have at least three galleries of photos from this past weekend’s Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus Ohio, and now it looks like we have even more photos coming in!...
BangShift Question Of The Day: If Money Were No Object, What Old Or New Dream Car Would You Buy?
Jul 18, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
With all these cool car auctions coming up featuring dealer and barn finds, plus cool collections, and even stuff from the Petersen Museum, it got us thinking. If we had a pile of cash, and an...
The Last Vehicle Steve McQueen Ever Rode In Up For Auction – 1952 Chevy Truck With Custom Camper
Jul 17, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
Steve McQueen was trying anything and everything that he could to beat the cancer that would ultimately take his life, when he rode in the back of the truck below with the Reverend Billy Graham on...
Photos: A 108 MPH Motorhome, BellyTanks, Gas Coupes, And More. SCTA El Mirage July Meet.
Jul 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, LAND SPEED RACES
This past weekend’s SCTA Meet at El Mirage Dry Lake wasn’t as big as usual due to the close proximity to Bonneville Speed Week which is only three weeks away. But what it lacked in total...
Would You Drive It? A Casket Bodied Roadster Ala Drag-U-La…Sorta
Jul 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
When we saw this one on Ebay, we couldn’t help but giggle. There is something cool about it, while also being disturbing of course. The thought of a coffin or casket bodied roadster makes us...
Video: This Guy Built A Running And Driving Life Sized Tonka Tow Truck – He Is A BangShift Hero
Jul 17, 2013Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Thanks to OG BangShifter Joe Haber, we were tipped off to the greatest thing that we’ve seen in a good long time. Virtually all of us played with Tonka trucks as kids. Not to go into old man...
Ebay Find: A Thiokol Model 1300 Swamp Cat Amphibious Tracked Recovery Vehicle
Jul 17, 2013Chad ReynoldseBay Find
This thing will drive on land, snow, ice, water, you name it. And at this very moment Brian is literally oozing all over his Lazy Boy while checking it out. The fact that it says it is ONLY available...
Event Photos: Goodguys Columbus PPG Nationals 2013. Street Machines, Muscle Cars, And More
Jul 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS
Last year’s Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus were miserable. I mean horrible. We’re talking 108 degree temps and 85% humidity. It sucked out loud. This year kicked ass. With temps in...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Highway Patrol” by Junior Brown (1993)
Jul 17, 2013Chad ReynoldsBS Daily Tune Up
Junior Brown, guitar player extraordinaire, inventor of the “Guit-Steel”, and one time house band of the famed hot rod hangout Continental Club in Austin, does it up right with this one....
EBAY Find: NHRA Top Fuel Dragster For Only $19,000! You Can Own The Yankees Top Fueler!
Jul 16, 2013Chad ReynoldseBay Find
That’s right folks, this is the Mike Dunn driven, Darrell Gwynn owned, New York Yankees Top Fuel Dragster. And it’s yours for only $19,000! This one is the show car that was on display at...
