Author Archive: Eric Rood
Ouch! This Evo’s Engine Annihilates Itself at a Track Day in Australia
Sandown Raceway in Australia is one heck of a place. The racing circuit is built around the outside of a horse racing track and hosts one of the big three endurance races on the Virgin Supercars...
Here’s a Curious, Sharp-Looking Javelin For Sale In AMC Racing Livery
While American Motors Corporation is perhaps best-known in the general populace as company that built the oddly proportioned Pacer and Gremlin, AMC also produced a few iconic muscle cars. The...
Watch Tony Stewart Say Goodbye to Bristol Fittingly With Tire Smoke
As the 2016 NASCAR season heads toward its final leg, Tony Stewart’s stock-car career begins that final farewell tour. The man known as “Smoke” to the NASCAR world has been around American...
This Cayman Spins On the Nurburgring At 150 MPH and Somehow Doesn’t Hit Anything
Ah, the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, that narrow 15-mile ribbon of asphalt winding through the Eiffel Mountains in western Germany. The harrowing “Green Hell” has crunched up many a car during...
In Australia, NASCAR Only Used To Turn Right
If you’re a devoted fan of The Simpsons, you already know the most important question about crossing the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere: When you flush a toilet, does the water swirl the...
Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
It’s no secret that we at BangShift love the McLaren M8 Can-Am cars: They’re absolutely brutal machines with big displacement, big noise, big power, and requiring big commitment from a driver. As...
Watch This 1953 World Sidecar Racing Champion Go Racing Again in 2015
“At the end of the war, I was told, ‘What do you want to be? Do you want be a wireman or an insulation inspector or what?’” Stan Dibben said. “And I said, ‘To hell with it, I wanna ride...
This Australian Pro Stock Motorcycle Rider Makes a Ridiculous Save After His Rear Tire Blows Deep Into the Run
In a lot of racing, there’s a fine line between skill and luck. Finding yourself on the wrong side of either can be an occupational hazard, but sometimes you end up having enough skill to overcome...
This Vintage Sunbeam Tiger Club Racer Takes a Big Shunt But Races On
Tom Patton has made a name for himself in the club racing world for steadfastly campaigning his white Sunbeam Tiger in the SCCA for decades. Today, Patton’s old Rootes Group V8 roadster races in...
Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia Looks Like a Riot – Check Out This Highlight Video
As Europe’s first permanent drag racing facility, Santa Pod Raceway carries the torch for big muscle and small ET’s across the pond and this year finds Santa Pod celebrating 50 years of...
The Hangover 150 Looks Like the Best Way to Ring in the New Year
The people of western New York come from hardy stock. The shrug at a couple feet of snow during the long, Great Lakes-aided winters, opting to down a few Labatt Blues and carry on with their day...
This Grainy 8mm Footage Captures Some of the Earliest Winged Sprint Cars Ever Built
In the 1950s, the study and application of aerodynamic principles in race cars was a fairly novel concept. For the most part, aero was a slippery subject: Streamlined cars surely sliced through the...
Scared of Flying? This Turboprop Coming and Going From a Mountainside Grass Strip May Not be For You
The aviation world is full of small private airports, some in difficult-to-reach places. Those airports tend to draw mostly small general aviation planes like your standard Cessna 172s and Piper...
For $2,000, Here’s a Fiero With the Right Number of Cylinders
Remember when you used to hear that the Pontiac Fiero had the engine behind the driver “just like a Ferrari?” And remember how that engine was either the gutless, fire-prone Iron Duke...