Bonneville Speed Week 2019: How The Heck Does The Record Setting Procedure Work, Anyway?
Aug 08, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift News, LAND SPEED RACES
It is the dream of many hot rodders to attend Speed Week at Bonneville. It is the dream of a smaller group to actually drive something down the salt in anger, and it is the dream of an even smaller...
Rough Start: 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 – It’s Ready And Waiting!
Aug 08, 2019Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
It is rare…exceedingly rare…to find a Rough Start candidate that doesn’t need a massive, three-paragraph writeup in order to sell the average reader on the idea of acquiring a good...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Alphabet Soup – What Do All Those Class Designation Letters Mean, Anyway?!
Aug 08, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift News, LAND SPEED RACES
(Editor’s note: Starting this coming weekend, BangShift’s coverage of SpeedWeek 2019 will commence! As we are always gathering new readers we run this story about how to decipher...
Spitting Fire: Mating A Supercharged Snowmobile Engine Into A Tiny Triumph
Aug 08, 2019Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
During the height of the small British roadster era, the plan of attack wasn’t a full-on assault of horsepower. Instead, it was about balance: a small and light chassis, the barest of needs and...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro: Chapter Six – One Run by the Blitzen Benz Changes the Course of History for the Salt Beds of Salduro
Aug 08, 2019Brian LohnesEvent Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – On Wednesday, August 12, 1914, the express train from Salt Lake City was met at 12:45 PM by three drivers...
Action Photos: 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals – Pro Class Photo Coverage
Aug 07, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – When old timer drag racing veterans talk about a race that just happened in pretty reverential terms you know it was a special deal. It’s one of those races...
Watch Matt Hartford Steal A Western Swing Sweep From Greg Anderson In Seattle – Holeshot!
Aug 07, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It was signed, sealed, and nearly delivered. In all of the craziness surrounding John Force’s historic win in Seattle, one of the big stories that may have gotten lost in the shuffle is the pro...
Hard To Hate On: This 1974 Chevelle Is An Awesome Example Of How Cool These Cars Can Be
Aug 07, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, Craigslist Find
For a very long time I have had a lot of dislike for the Collonade styling cars of GM’s mid-1970s. Not really sure why. Maybe there was some post-muscle resentment. Maybe there was some...
The Rise of Force: Bret Kepner and Phil Burgess Talk About John Force’s Improbable Path To Drag Racing Immortality
Aug 07, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
When it comes to understanding what a big moment means, you call in the experts. In the world of drag racing, specifically the world of professional level drag racing there are two guys that jump to...
Snake Bitten: Keith Haney Rolls Out His New “Black Mamba” Camaro – Pro Mod AND Drag Radial!
Aug 07, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
“This is the most expensive, most experimental, and nicest race car I’ve ever ordered”, he said as the nose of the Jerry Bickel Race Cars-built Camaro sat, nearly kissing the...
Jay Leno Takes You On A Tour Of His Latest Restoration, A 1934 Frazer Nash TT Replica!
Aug 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
I won’t hide it…when it comes to anything built before 1955, I’m somewhere between bad and God-awful. The first half of the American motor car is a mixture of Tin Lizzy shapes, fat...
Unhinged: The Reawakening Of A Field-Car Cordoba And A Call-Out
Aug 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartVideos
So, I’m not the only person who recently got a nice note from Austin Griggs that mentioned a race in Alabama around the middle of October. A lot of people who were known to have Mopar projects...
Morning Symphony: Horsepower Versus The Dirt – Off-Roading Mechanical Violence Lives Here
Aug 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
The dragstrip offers up the most horsepower per event than anywhere else on Earth short of space launches. A fully-loaded NASCAR starting grid typically has 30,000 horsepower on tap when you add in...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Chapter 5: Ernie Moross, Bill Rishel, Teddy Tetzlaff and the Blitzen Benz II arrive on the Salt Beds of Salduro
Aug 07, 2019Brian LohnesEvent Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES
(By Bret Kepner: SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – Throughout the weekend of August 8-9, 1914, William D. “Big Bill” Rishel had been hard at work...
