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Author Archive: Chad Reynolds

Funny Car Stars Take Over Speed Scene Live Tonight. Check It Out LIVE!

Donnie Couch, proprietor of the West Coast Funny Car Factory, will take over Speed Scene Live on Tuesday evening September 4, while “Lucky” Hudson and Diana-Mite are off with their racer cars on...

Event Coverage: Kyle’s Ice Cream Cruise… As In 1320 Video Kyle… This Thing Was Huge

While in Kansas for the Goodguys show, which was mostly rained out, we hung out with several of our Kansas and Missouri based Drag Week buddies in preparation for the big event next week. While...

Event Coverage: Cacklefest Video And Nitro Cars At Ardmore Dragway Hot Rod Reunion

You already saw the crash photo sequence from Ardmore, where Bebo Chandler crashed his Outlaw Pro Mod car, but here are some photos, and video,  from the race that will let you in on how cool the...

Event Coverage: Hundreds Of Action Photos From The 2012 Yellow Bullet Nationals

Our boy Joe Grippo was at it again this weekend and got his photo finger all fired up at the Yellow Bullet Nationals. He sent us more than 300 photos and as usual got not only great wheels up on...

Crash Photo Sequence: Out Of Control Nitro Outlaw Pro Mod Impala At Ardmore Dragway

Chris Graves with Max Cackle Photography sent us this cool crash sequence from the recent Hot Rod Reunion at Ardmore Dragway in Oklahama. Aubrey, Texas driver Bebo Chandler took a wild ride in his...

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Free Live Streaming Video of the 3rd Annual Yellow Bullet Nationals

The YellowBullet Nationals V2012 is off an running. Mark Walter is live broadcasting the race and let us in on the fun. Hit the link below to watch the 2012 YB Nationals LIVE and FREE on BangShift!...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The Russian Caspian Sea Monsters

First off we have to thank forum member Malc for pointing us toward these most bizarre of vehicles. It seems we’re on a bit of a Russian kick as of late, but for some time, the Ruskies had the...

Video: Triple Black 440 6-Pack 1970 Cuda Owned By BangShifter John Cross On Big Muscle

BangShifter John Cross sent us this cool video that the guys at Big Muscle put together on his NorCal based 1970 440 6-pack Cuda. Although it is a numbers matching car, John pulled the original 440,...

COPO Camaro In Car Video: Aeromotive Fueled Patterson Racing Engines COPO Runs 9.78

The guys at Husky Liner are faithful customers of Patterson Racing Engines and Aeromotive, and shot cool video of their new COPO Camaro running 9.78 at Topeka this past weekend. You saw us showing...

Video: Rocky’s Evil Twin Dual Motor Small Block Dragster Running At Billetproof 2012

When Rocky Phillips first started working on his twin-engine Rocky’s Evil Twin dragster, he started a Project Build Thread on our forums that allowed us to follow along as he created this...

Shop Tour: Jet Hot High Performance Coatings Visits Petty Garage… Yeah, Like Richard Petty… The King

When Cheryl, Gordon, and Tim from Jet Hot told us that they got to go tour Petty’s Garage we were pretty jealous. But, they made up for it a bit when they sent us some cool photos of the place...

$200 Hauler Update: We Give It A Butt Lift With Some New Chrome And Ghetto Bodywork

In our last installment of the $200 Hauler build you saw us replace our broken grille, bashed lower valance, and boring bowtie which cleaned up our front end a lot. In fact, we’re not sure...

Cobra Mustang Or ZL1 Camaro? Comp Cams Asks: Which Would You Rather Drive?

Comp Cams has a new Facebook question up asking which you would rather drive. The new Mustang Cobra, or the new ZL1 Camaro. My choice is clear, but that’s because the front of that Mustang...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Are Hot Rodders Worried About Their Carbon Footprint?

Are you worried about your carbon footprint? On the surface it seems like such a simple question. In reality, it’s a fairly complex one. To keep it simple, I’ll say that yes I’m...