Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
Video: Take a ride in a 235-MPH Corvette
Ed and Linda Van Scoy have been racing their C4 Corvette at Bonneville for 15 years. It has gotten Ed into the Bonneville 200-MPH Club, and has held several records. All of that experience clearly...
Video: Gary Hart’s 248-mph Studebaker Blows a Turbo at Speed
Blowing up a turbo isn’t good. It’s really not good at over 200 mph. Running a car at Bonneville Speedway is a lot like putting your engine through a 2 minute dyno pull, which means you...
Event Coverage: Tuesday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
It was another long day for BangShift.com at the 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats, as we tore all over the Salt to bring you a photo gallery of all the action from Tuesday. The...
Poteet and Main Speed Demon Streamliner runs 387 at Bonneville Speedweek 2009
When we arrived at Bonneville Speedway on Saturday for the start of the 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week, it was no surprise that the team of Poteet and Main had the first car on the line to make a pass....
Event Coverage: Monday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
The 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at Bonneville got hot on its third day, and we aren’t just talking about the 105-degree temperatures. With teams vying for a piece of record pie, the Hot Rod Top...
Video: In-Car Camera of a 218-MPH Pass at Bonneville
In 2008, Bonneville racer Ed Goodrich was a huge help to the BangShift.com race team. After our race Camaro’s front air dam was protested, we drove 180 miles to Ed’s home in Idaho, took...
Event Coverage: Sunday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
Speed Week 2009 is reinforcing Bonneville Speedway’s “World’s Fastest” designation, and in grand fashion. Jump here for the BangShift.com photo gallery of Sunday’s...
Event Coverage: Saturday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
Today was the first day of competition at the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week, and if today’s top speed is any indication of things to come, we are in for some great racing action. Poteet...
BangShift.com Coverage of the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Starts Now
It’s almost midnight in Wendover, Utah, on August 7, and I just arrived in town (late, as usual) to start off the BangShift.com coverage of the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week. Racing...
Roadside Find: Real 1966 Corvette 4×4 Trar
On a recent trip back to Texas, the parental units pointed out this well done 1966 Corvette 4×4 conversion. More often called a trar (truck/car), this particular homogenization is still more...
Video: Nascar Dodge R5/P7 Race Engine Lucas Oil Test
The name Lucas Oil can be found in conjunction with every kind of motorsport imaginable, and in order to provide lubricants for all these applications, the company has to do a lot of testing. At...
Summit Racing Equipment and NHRA together through 2012
During a period when every sponsorship or sanctioning body announcement seems to involve one or the other going away, we were thrilled to hear that our friends over at Summit Racing Equipment have...
Good Salt and Three Tracks for 2009 Bonneville Speed Week
Word broke late yesterday on the Southern California Timing Association web site that the surface condition at the Bonneville Salt Flats is perfect for racing and ready to be prepped. The better news...