UPDATE Breaking News: Garlits Attempting To Break 200 MPH Barrier On Batteries RIGHT NOW!
Apr 30, 2014Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight
Update 3:30pm Eastern Time: On the third run with the dragster the power shut off unexpectedly at half track. The crew says that early numbers show that it would have easily been a 200 mph run, but a...
VIDEO: Gerry Marshall fends off a swarm of 2.0-liter cars in a Camaro at the 1971 Crystal Palace race
Apr 30, 2014Craig FitzgeraldApex Video, BangShift APEX
A few weeks ago, Lohnes posted a great in-car video of Gerry Marshall muscling a Chevy 302-powered Vauxhall Firenza around a British road course. This two-part, 16 minute video has him dicing it out...
Flips, Flops, Saves, And More. Formula Off Road In Sweden Takes Crazy To A New Level
Apr 30, 2014Chad ReynoldsXL Spotlight, XL Videos
We love Formula Off Road Racing because it’s awesome. Take some jillion foot tall pile of gravel, send high horsepower, light weight, 4 wheel drives with paddle tires on all 4 wheels and tell...
The Thrash Is On To Complete This Steel, 1967, Big Block, Four Speed Barracuda For Drag Week!
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
Arizona’s Robert Reynolds was one of the many people who answered the call we put out for Drag Week project builds the other day and like Gary Putnam’s car we featured yesterday, Reynolds...
BangShifter Creates Drag Week “Scholarship” And Awards It To First Time Competitor – This Is Super Cool
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
In one of the coolest things to come out of the BangShift forums since their inception in 2008, multi-time Drag Week racer Kerby Suhre decided that since he wasn’t going to be able to make the...
Win A Burnout Contest And Win An Atomic EFI – Kill Tires For EFI Because MSD Gets It!
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesSponsor News
We love it when companies understand their customers and MSD certainly does. We got a tip from our man Chuy over at the MSD bunker in El Paso and he told us that the company has teamed up with the...
This Music Video Has Awesome Drag Cars In It And Is Actually Pretty Neat
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We have to thank ace BangShift photo contributor Benoit Pigeon for tipping us off to this cool music video for the song Summer by the artist Calvin Harris. While we’re not much for the tune...
Doorslammer Gallery: Pro Modifieds At The 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Photos By Charles Wickam) – Yesterday I told you how awesome the Pro Modified class was at the 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals and today we’re showing you through the great...
2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs Raceway – Historic, Cool, And Fast Fords Take Over The Strip
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it happened again. Jody Aberts, Doug Bender and Beaver Bob McCardle pulled off another fantastic weekend of Drag Racing and Car Show actioffeaturing...
Craigslist Find: This Fully Built Volvo Race Wagon, Despite Being A Volvo, Is Awesome And Cheap!
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
There’s a big part of us that thinks something may be fishy with this ad for a totally cool 1995 Volvo 850 wagon that has been modified with upgraded suspension, a full cage, and apparently...
Gallery: Hundreds of Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Cool Pickups Invade Main Street Cruise-In in Cleveland, TN
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – This past weekend was a huge weekend for car shows, cruise ins and racing, and Tommy Lee Byrd double dipped by attending the Mitty vintage road race event...
Barnstormin’: NHRA Pro Mod Has Gone Straight And That’s Fine With Me
Apr 29, 2014Brian LohnesBarnstormin'
Now that racing season has ramped fully up to speed, my schedule for traveling and attending races that I am either working at or covering has gone completely nuts. This exponential increase in time...
Watch The Incredible Stupidbaker Land Speed Car Get Wind Tunnel Tested At The A2 Wind Tunnel
Apr 29, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Of the cars I have had the good fortune to see in action during my life, there are a handful that have made an immediate and everlasting impact on me and the 1953 Studebaker build by Johnson’s...
OPG Is Giving Stuff Away! Free Shipping, Free Catalogs, And More Parts Than Anyone Else!
Apr 29, 2014Chad ReynoldsSponsor News
The guys at Original Parts Group, OPG, have been manufacturing and distributing parts for classic GM A-Bodies forever. And because they’ve been doing it so long, they do it better than anyone...
