Will Ownership Of Laguna Seca Change, And Could The France Family Take Over?
Jun 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Monterey County, California officials have been looking into supplanting the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP)’s operation of the vaunted Laguna Seca race course...
A Somewhat Fond Look Back At The Pontiac Turbo Trans Am – A Lot Of Show, But About The “Go” Part…
Jun 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Videos
I like the Pontiac Trans Am in just about every version possible. Every experience I’ve had with one makes me think of the same thing: lots of torque, a willingness to whip donuts at driver...
SCTA El Mirage June 2015: The Coolest Push, Support, Tow, And Random Vehicles At The Meet
Jun 25, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Steve Murphree) – In my first visit to El Mirage I noticed that the support and spectator vehicles were awesome! I think that because El Mirage is so much closer to SoCal...
Craigslist Find: A 1974 Mazda Rotary Pickup With An Oldsmobile 455 Mounted In The Bed!
Jun 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, TRUCKS
Bring A Trailer doesn’t normally run features on freaks of this caliber, and when they do it’s something worth checking out. Other than their obscurity, why would they focus on a 1974...
Julien’s Hollywood Legends Auction Will Offer Up Some Big-Name Cars, From John Schnider’s General Lee Through KITT!
Jun 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Automobile auctions are still a circus to us, where people with more money than brains drive up the price of cars faster than an annoyed Saudi sheik will drive up the price of a barrel of oil. But...
Evel Knievel Apparently Had An Injected Cadillac Drag Trike And It Is For Sale Right Now
Jun 25, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Well count this as a new one on us. There is a guy in Germany selling a mechanically fuel injected Cadillac drag trike that apparently belonged to Evel Knievel before being sold to said guy in...
Holley’s Vintage Series Valve Covers And Air Cleaner Assemblies Are A Great Way To Dress Up Your Small-Block Chevy!
Jun 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartNew Products, Sponsor News
Holley Performance Products used the 2015 Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky as the perfect location to unveil their new Holley Vintage Series engine dress-up kits. Made from die-cast...
ACED: AutoCross Every Day! Mike Maier Kills It On The Goodguys Autocross Del Mar
Jun 24, 2015Chad ReynoldsApex Spotlight, Apex Video
I call him “Mad” Mike Maier, or “Crazy Eyes”, because Mike is nuts. Not like scary Uncle Eddie nuts, but rather “I want to hang out with that guy all the time!”...
Dunlap Stuns Bartone As “High Speed” Top Fuel Dragster Returns To Winners Circle
Jun 24, 2015Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage
In a spectacular return to form, 74-year-old Bill Dunlap captured Top Fuel Eliminator in his California-based “High Speed Motorsports” entry at the 13th Holley National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling...
LA Roadsters Show 2015: More Of The Coolest Trucks At The Massive Show
Jun 24, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
We told you that we had shot virtually everything that there was to shoot at the 2015 LA Roadsters show which was held last weekend at the Pomona Fairplex. The historic show has been a staple in the...
Snow Over? Watch This Snowmobile Power Itself Over Backwards (Rider OK)!
Jun 24, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
(By Jason Mazzotta) – In Wisconsin winter means snowmobiling and there is no better way to open up your sled than to bring it to the biggest drag event around and see what it has. At the...
Super Stockers, Cacklers, Historic Race Cars, And Vintage Drag Car Perfection At Beech Bend – More Photos!
Jun 24, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – There was a little irony in the fact that McTaggart was at the race hanging around the cool Prussian top fuel dragster that Maynard Rupp won lots of races with....
Photo Coverage Of The Rain Shortened IHRA President’s Cup Continues – Funnies, Pro Mods, Nitro Harleys
Jun 24, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It was wet and that means it was frustrating for the racers competing at the IHRA President’s Cup race last weekend. Sizable fields in all classes were really...
More Straight Axle Mafia Goodness From Thornhill Drag Strip – These Cars Rule
Jun 24, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races
(Photos by Doug Gregory) – The other day we showed you a smattering of the cars that make up a group affectionately known as the “straight axle mafia” at historic Thornhill Drag...
