Carnage Video: Rear Engine Funny Car Backflip!
Nov 02, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
While rear-engine fuel dragsters took over the Top Fuel world in the 1970s, the rear-engine Funny Car never really made it off the launch pad. Yes there was mild success with them in the hands of...
SEMA Preview: Nine Rides We Could Do Without Seeing On The Floor
Nov 02, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, Event Coverage
SEMA can be the best that the automotive arena has to offer, but sometimes beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Both times I’ve gone, I’ve found myself wondering just how a particular...
Unhinged: The Dangers Involved With Pushing The Limits Is Simply A Reality And Must Be Accepted
Nov 02, 2014Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
This week has been a low spot for the space community. One Scaled Composites pilot was killed and another seriously injured when the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo shuttle craft suffered an...
Question Of The Day: What Else Will Get The Hellcat Treatment?
Nov 02, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
The numbers don’t lie, the Hellcat engine has been quite a stimulation for Dodge’s sales, with the Hellcat getting a surprising start. And the Charger Hellcat has been warming the hearts...
Peak Antifreeze To Sponsor John Force’s Funny Car For 2015 And Beyond
Nov 01, 2014Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight
That’s right folks. It was announced this afternoon that John Force will carry the Peak Antifreeze and Bluedef Diesel Exhaust Fluid brands on his funny car for 2015 and beyond. In addition,...
UPDATE: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Has Been Lost
Nov 01, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, BangShift XL
UPDATE 11/01/2014: In images released by AP, it is apparent that SpaceShipTwo USS Enterprise suffered an explosion in-flight that caused the breakup of the craft, bringing it down into the Mojave...
BREAKING NEWS: Captain Jack McClure Will Race His Famous Rocket Go Kart In Two Weeks At Motec Word Finals In Florida
Nov 01, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
WOW! About six months ago, Captain Jack McClure contacted us and said that he was close in getting permission to run his famed hydrogen peroxide rocket kart at a drag strip here in the USA for the...
In Japan They Run Top Fuel Cars On Unprepped Surfaces And The Results Are As Wild As You’d Expect (Video)
Nov 01, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Yes, there are top fuel cars in Japan. Yes, they get run. No they don’t prep the tracks…at all. Why? People we have spoken to told us that prepping the track is viewed as...
SEMA 2013: Brian’s Favorite Cars and Trucks From The 2013 SEMA Show
Nov 01, 2014Brian LohnesCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
Editor’s note: As busy and completely insane as 2014 has been, I can remember shooting every one of these photos last year at the SEMA show. I am sure looking forward to any surprises that the...
SEMA 2013 Mini-Feature: Galpin Ford’s Recreation Of The Awesome Backup Pickup Wheelstander Rules
Nov 01, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature
Editor’s note: Our 2014 SEMA show coverage will begin in earnest on Monday, so this weekend we’re looking back at least year’s show to get you revved up! So the SEMA 2013 hits keep...
This Pulling Truck Has A Giant LED Screen On The Front For Spectators To See Engine Vitals And A V8 That Revs To Nearly 10,000 RPM
Nov 01, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
So we love truck pulling here and you know that. You know that because we have shared hundreds of videos over the years of creations big and small pulling the sled. This is something entirely new...
Roadkill! Freiburger And Finnegan Are Back With An Outtake Show, Plus Two Big Teasers
Nov 01, 2014Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Normally, an outtake show is essentially where the stars phone in an episode, but the guys at Roadkill had a good reason to: they have amassed tons of great footage over the years that had not been...
Craigslist Find: A Guy In Las Vegas Is Selling Some Sweet Projects – Which Would You Take Home From SEMA
Nov 01, 2014Brian LohnesCraigslist Find
One of the things I torture myself with each year before SEMA is looking at Craigslist ads in the Las Vegas area to see all of the cool stuff that is for sale and could be brought home from SEMA. I...
Bootlegger Cams Releases Sneak Peek Teaser For Third and Final Portion Of Video Trilogy – How Does It End?
Nov 01, 2014Brian LohnesNew Products
We’ve been keeping you abreast of all the fun stuff going on with the Bootlegger camshaft line from the different cams that are available to the cool short films that have been released and...
