.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

A Peek Behind The Curtain At DMC Racing – Cool Builds In Progress!

Last week we stopped into DMC Racing in Halifx, Massachusetts to hang out and see what was new and exciting at the shop. We were not let down by what we found, which was a veritable raft of...

2014 PRO Winter Warm Up – All Of Our Photos – Pits, Flaming Nitro Action!

Nitro teams were attacking the famed quarter mile at Palm Beach International Raceway in West Palm Beach, Florida with zeal on Thursday as the week long NHRA nitro pre season testing session moved...

Bitchin’ Video: Watch a Seriously Bad Ass 1973 Camaro Attack the Autocross

So in this video we have a hood view of Brian Hobaugh’s gnarly sounding 1973 Camaro attacking the autocross. Brian’s orange screamer is well known and has gotten lots of ink in magazines...

Great Gasser And Funny Car Race Jim “Fireball” Shores Has Died At 86 Years Old

A tough weekend for drag racing legends for sure as Ken Dondero passed away and now news comes in that gasser and funny car great Jim Shores has died. Shores was the wrenching half of the famed...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The World War 1 Russian Lebedenko Tank

This thing is by far the weirdest and possibly most massive self-propelled land vehicle we’ve ever heard of. Built by a Russian engineer as the ultimate weapon for use in WWI, it ended up as a...

Video: “Car Fighting” Video Is Unreal

Have you ever watched a video where something you love is destroyed? You know that you shouldn’t watch, but you can’t peel your eyes away from the screen until it’s over? Maybe you...

A Photo From The Lohnes Archive: An Awesome Road Racing Malibu

SCCA racing gets unfairly labeled as being high brow and clean handed. I can attest as a low brow person who was normally up to his neck in fluids leaking from a VW Rabbit that it’s totally...

Video: Super Bitchin 1966 Ford F100 Pre-Runner Truck Catching Air At The Dunes

We always love jumping videos around here, and have also been getting into the whole pre-runner vibe while working on the $200 Hauler so when we can across this cool video from MOTOLife we had to run...

REPLAY: BANGSHIFT 2014 PRO WINTER WARM-UP BROADCAST

  To answer the most popular question that we have received at BangShift world HQ over the last two weeks….YES we will be live broadcasting the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach...

The RideTech Barrett-Jackson Adventure Continues….The Day Three Report With Photos Here!

Bret Voelkel of RideTech has been filing daily dispatches from the 2014 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. He’s there to sell his wife Sharon’s Pontiac GTO convertible along with his...

Top Secret Drag Tech: Toyota Racing Racing Has An Interesting New Device For Measuring Track Grip!

The photo below was taken yesterday on the starting line of Palm Beach International Raceway and it shows an interesting device that was being used, maybe for the first time in public, by the fellow...

CL Find: This Geo Metro Off Road Buggy Will Kill You….But You’ll Die Happy

We’ve got to give it to you guys, the BangShift army. There’s not a better group of readers on planet Earth, even though we believe a large percentage of you are technically not...

Watch The Baddest Ass Olds Powered 1967 Olds 442 Make More Than 1,450hp To The Tires! Absolutely Awesome

Oldsmobile fans, bow to your new master. Gene Newton’s absolutely shag nasty 1967 Olds 442 has laid the hammer down and we have the video to prove it. The car has been at DMC Racing in Halifax,...

Watch The First C7 Corvette In The 10s Make A SCREAMING Dyno Pull And Make Big Steam With An ECS Blower Kit

When I got down to Florida on Wednesday, Chad was stuck getting some sort of cavity search from TSA officials. I had a few hours on my hands so I hit the road and headed down to Redline Motorsports...