2019 Mecum Harrisburg Coverage: The Incredible Todd Werner Collection – Race and Muscle Cars 1
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Generally speaking, car collections are all pretty incredible. They tend to have themes or eras, or some sort of thread running through them to create some language...
Horsepower For Peanuts: This Dude Takes A Forlorn Chevy 307 And For Nearly No Money, Makes A Fun Little Engine
The 307ci Chevy small block was never intended to be a performance engine. This was a piece designed as a prime mover for any number of cars and trucks in the Chevrolet and GMC families over the...
Update: Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Start Of Racing Delayed Until Tuesday
Here’s the latest update on Bonneville Speed Week 2019: SW 2019 Update #10 (8/11/19): Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. we will start racing. There will be no Pre-Stage it is first come first serve and the...
The Pile Of Parts: It’s A Chevy Truck With Big-Boy Power And A List Of Donor Vehicles A Mile Long
Frame: 1989 Chevrolet S-10. Cab: 1951 Chevrolet with 1952 doors. Bed: 1962 Chevrolet, modified to fit. Engine: 496ci big Chevrolet that’s somewhere near 700 horsepower with the help of just a...
Todd Paton, Driver Of The Paton Racing Top Fuel Dragster, Starts Performance Data Systems To Support Racers
We are super excited for our friend Todd Paton, driver of the Paton Family Top Fuel Dragster, as he is taking a leap into a new business venture after leaving Racepak Data Systems recently. Todd has...
2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: The Land Of Plenty For Fans Of The Fins
When you look at a car like a 1955-57 Chevrolet, it’s easy to have the legend overrun reality. You want to see that picture-perfect red and ivory Fuelie Bel Air, or the matte black 1955 with...
2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Getting Rowdy With The Oldies
“I didn’t think that many of these things still existed!”, I heard a young guy say to his parents as I walked through the show fields at Beech Bend. Surprise, my dude: while there...
Bonneville Record Breaker: This 1963 Film Shows Andy Granatelli Hauling On The Salt
Here’s some fun Bonneville video but it ain’t from speed week! Nope this video was made in 1963 by Studebaker to promote the safety and performance of the beautiful Avanti model. The...
2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Celebrating Three Years Of Chevrolet In One Massive Throw-Down!
Bowling Green is home of the Corvette, right? Not this weekend. Right now, Chevrolet’s sports car is taking one huge backseat to the legendary Tri-Five Chevrolets. Be it 150, 210, Bel Air,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Love To See Return To Drag Racing?
Nitro. Nitrous. Personalities. Actual names on the cars instead of sponsorships. Funny car bodies that don’t look like someone did quick bar-soap art while scrubbing themselves down in the...
Pro-Jacks: The Most Bad Ass Race Car Accessory You’ll Have That Doesn’t Make It Faster
In this video the always entertaining Tim McAmis talks about Pro-Jacks. On their own, Pro-Jacks won’t make your car quicker or faster, but they are one of the more bad ass things you can have...
Old Bikes, New Payday: Old School Kaws take NHDRO’s Biggest Money Ever – Race Report
(Words and photos by Tim Hailey) – The sharpest, most up-to-date tools in the motorcycle drag racing box came out to win NHDRO’s biggest money event ever—the APE Summer Celebration and Big...
Disaster Video: Incredible Footage Of The Yellow River Drag Strip Calamity Has Surfaced – 50 Years Ago, 11 Killed
50 years ago the worst disaster in drag racing occurred at a little known, little spoken about track about 40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was like so many places in...
