The Bloodhound SSC Is Making Its 200mph Test Today – WATCH IT LIVE HERE
Oct 26, 2017Brian Lohnes1
The road to 1,000mph officially begins today! The pride of the UK and the hopefuls who are planning on running 1,000mph in the famed Bloodhound SSC will make their first official performance test...
A Tiny Bit Of Violence: Troy Scott’s Opel GT Was Tearing It Up At The Throwdown In T-Town!
Oct 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on A Tiny Bit Of Violence: Troy Scott’s Opel GT Was Tearing It Up At The Throwdown In T-Town!
Troy Scott’s Opel GT has been around for years and is legendary for what it can do on the strip. That’s not a stretch of the imagination…an Opel GT is the size of most kit cars and...
2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals Coverage – More Great Action From VMP
Oct 25, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on 2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals Coverage – More Great Action From VMP
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We’re back with a second batch of photos from the 2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals. Brian Olson was a guy I knew really well. In fact, I worked...
Photos And Fun From Our Daphne Reynolds Memorial Drag-o-Rama Trip, With More To Come!
Oct 24, 2017Chad Reynolds19
On September 22, 2017 my wife Daphne, and mother to Cole and Peyton, passed away after a year long battle with cancer. It was her 50th birthday. She was one tough chick, and for most of that year she...
Brought Back To Life: This 1965 Impala Uses A Single Turbo And A Stock Bottom End 6.0 To Run Deep 9s
Oct 24, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Brought Back To Life: This 1965 Impala Uses A Single Turbo And A Stock Bottom End 6.0 To Run Deep 9s
The other day I posted a 1965 Impala pro touring car that was pretty tough to look at. The thing was overbuilt and weird looking and just someone’s idea of what a high end pro touring car...
2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals Coverage: Nearly 400 Of Earth’s Baddest ‘Slammers Attack Virginia
Oct 24, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on 2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals Coverage: Nearly 400 Of Earth’s Baddest ‘Slammers Attack Virginia
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It was an amazing weekend of drag racing at the 2017 Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals last weekend and some of that had to do with news about the venue...
Not The Beach, Mate: This Ballistic Meyers Manx Runs The Quarter Hard Once It Gets Reeled Back In!
Oct 24, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
Bruce F. Meyers might be fully credited for taking the Volkswagen Beetle, shrinking it down, and adding a trailing arm-style rear suspension and a body tub that lent itself well to cartoons, but in...
Ever Hear Of This One? The 1969 AMC Javelin SST Badger Edition – A Limited Release Hot Rod
Oct 23, 2017Brian Lohnes4
(By Greg Rourke) – Ever heard of a Badger Edition AMC Javelin? Neither had I, despite being an AMC fan and living near the Badger State. Here’s one for sale, and bit of history. AMC was...
Morning Symphony: A Toyota Starlet With A Flame-Throwing Rotary
Oct 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart3
No replacement for displacement, eh? No, that old adage has been killed over and over. Sure, there is nothing like a big-bore, big cube V8 with all the civility of a Viking on full berserker mode,...
The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!
Oct 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...
Bad Goat: This Pro Street 1966 GTO Owned By Hollywood Bobby Is ANGRY – Watch It In Action
Oct 23, 2017Brian Lohnes2
Hollywood Bobby Treadwell is a well known dude in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. His 1936 Plymouth, with is nitrous snorting 632 was well known on the streets and the strips of the area and the car...
Watch The RTRA Texas Small Tire Throwdown Replay Right Here
Oct 21, 2017Chad Reynolds1
It’s the final RTRA (Radial Tire Racing Association) race of 2017 and we’ll be LIVE from a 60 foot boom lift right here at BANGshift.com starting around 6:30 pm Central Time. We’ll...
Sending A Car Or Truck To SEMA? Enter The 2017 Gran Turismo Awards HERE – We’re Judging Again
Oct 21, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Sending A Car Or Truck To SEMA? Enter The 2017 Gran Turismo Awards HERE – We’re Judging Again
One of the things I have been able to do over the last couple of years is work as a judge for the Gran Turismo awards at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. This is a bad ass deal because there are multiple...
BANGshift’s Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Lays Out Odds For The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion!
Oct 20, 2017Darr Hawthorne5
As nitro funny car racing matures, the task of picking the final rounds and a top ten in the class is getting tougher and tougher with each event. The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion at Auto Club...










