Kris Krabill Scores 1st NHRA Heritage Championship As Jason Rupert 3-Petes IHRA Nitro Funny Car Title!
Sep 06, 2016Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – IHRA photos Courtesy of IHRA Communications) Kris Krabill and the Austin & O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Firebird nitro funny car team wrapped up the 2016...
Schadenfreude: This Editorial From The Quad Cities Times Sums Up The Epic World Series Of Drag Racing Fail Perfectly
Sep 06, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
You can’t blame them and certainly we do not. The Quad Cities Times newspaper was quick to jump on the fact that the move of the famed World Series of Drag Racing from its ancestral home on...
This BAJA Karmann Ghia Is A Bad Ass And Rare!
Sep 06, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
You almost never see Karmann Ghia’s built into Baja style rigs. I guess that’s because they are kind of the girly VW and most are done up as cute cruisers. We much prefer bugs, square...
Dyno Video: Watch The Blown Flathead Powered Scrap Iron 2 Fox Body Mustang Roar Out 250hp
Sep 06, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Here’s a land speed racing video that has no salt, no Ohio mile, no Texas mile, and frankly no forward motion. This is a video made by the Landry crew who run a car at the Ohio Mile and at...
NSRA Streetkhana Action 2: More Cars, More Cones, More Cool Photos
Sep 06, 2016Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More coverage from the NSRA StreetKhana. Mild to wild stuff in here. Lots of heavy hitters came out to show off and get folks interested in turning...
Money No Object: Go Hellcat Trolling With This 2006 Chrysler 300 Executive Series!
Sep 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
You know how we like to tease Lohnes with all of the big, lumbering work truck beasts we can find on Craigslist and eBay? Yeah…it was funny when I was the one finding old trucks and posting...
Righting A Wrong: Regular Car Reviews Drives An LS4-Swapped DeLorean With The Factory Five-Speed Still In Place!
Sep 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartVideos
The ultimate disappointment for any fan of the Back to the Future films should involve the DeLorean. Not because they don’t time travel or because you just can’t fuel it with beer down a...
Long, Low, Wide And Heavy: Jay Leno Rolls Out His 1958 Imperial Convertible!
Sep 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartMOPAR, Videos
There is confusion on where the Imperial name sits within Chrysler’s history, so let’s make it clear: between 1955-75 and 1981-83, Imperial is a separate make, the top-tier level of the...
Morning Symphony: Testing A Brand-New Citroen C3 WRC On The Road!
Sep 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Right here is the dream job none of us even knew to ask for when we were growing up. Firefighter? Cop? Photographer for lingerie models? Nope, you can keep all of that…at no point did I know to...
How Much Nitrous Can A 305 Chevy Take Before Things Go Bad? Engine Masters Finds Out!
Sep 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The 305 Chevrolet V8…it’s not the Rodney Dangerfield of small-block Chevrolets (that honor goes to the 307) but it still has a big issue with reputation. Mostly because it’s...
Watch NHRA Funny Driver Ron Capps Hit The Sand Trap Hard At The US Nationals
Sep 05, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
It was a frightening day for veteran funny car driver Ron Capps yesterday when his NAPA Dodge had a parachute deployment problem at the top end and he entered the sand trap HARD. As you will see,...
Andy Bozell Sets 3/8-Mile Oval Record With Insane 9.465-Second Lap
Sep 05, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
That’s a staggering headline, isn’t it? And yet as part of Kalamazoo Speedway’s “Call of the Wild” event on September 3, Andy Bozell’s highly modified Super Late Model car smashed the...
IndyCar Returns to Watkins Glen and Scott Dixon Rewrites the Lap Speed Record Books
Sep 05, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
When IndyCar axed the ill-fated Grand Prix of Boston earlier this year, the series suddenly had a void to fill on the calendar. With a few options on the table, IndyCar settled on a date at historic...
NASCAR Truck Race Ends With Motorsport Dumpster Fire, Driver Tackling Rival
Sep 05, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
While IndyCar was busy setting an absurd pace at Watkins Glen International and a clean win for Scott Dixon last weekend, just across the New York-Canada border, the NASCAR Camping World Trucks...
