BangShift Candidate Endorsement: Scott Palmer Needs Your Votes To Race In The Traxxas Shootout At Indy!
So here’s the deal, we like all three of the guys up for the 8th spot in the Traxxas Top Fuel shootout at the US Nationals. Terry McMillan, Troy Coughlin Jr., and Scott Palmer are the three...
Eight In A Row Make It Go! This Dragster Has Been A Lakester And Uses A Buick Fireball 8 For Power
Eight in a row make it go! While it is not common to see Buick straight eight powered dragsters at the strip these days, the engines are practically sprouting out of the ground at the Bonneville Salt...
eBay Find: This 1965 AMC Rambler Is A Long Way From Ramblin’ Again, and That Power Plant!
(By Greg Rourke) – I love me some AMC’s. Something about my oddball personality attracts me to the underdog marque. They always did the most with what little they had to work with up in...
Is This The Weirdest Drag Racing Crash You’ve Ever Seen? It Is Definitely Top 5 For Us!
Now, this is weird! Thanks to BangShifter Steve Valdez we got tipped off to this video that shows a pair of Aussie Top Doorslammer competitors rip roaring down a drag strip. Like many door slammer...
Turn-Key Rocket: This Drag-Prepared 2002 Saturn SC2 Is Built To Run Tens!
Ok, yesterday’s foray into the world of Saturn automobiles was pushing an envelope, one the size of a freaking Post Office. I knew that. But I honestly like early Saturns, before they became...
Four Wide: The Strip At Las Vegas Motor Speedway Joins zMax Dragway As Second Four Lane Drag Strip In World
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. When The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as built about 20 years ago, it was intended to be a four lane drag strip. Anyone who has ever visited the...
Fuel Altered Video: Wild, Nitro Fueled Action At The US131 Northern Nationals – Take A Trip Into The Sand Trap!
(Video Credit: Drag Strip Riot YouTube Channel) – This is a video that is teaming with win. So much win that some may actually leak off the screen and onto your keyboard. If that happens we...
Drag Strip Fun: Check Out This Punishing Burnout, Period Backup Action, and Dry Hops!
Ahhhhhh, showmanship! In an amazing twist, the world of modern pro stock seemed to stumble upon the idea of entertaining their fans last weekend in Brainerd, Minnesota. How? Breaking in tires. Those...
Bonneville Speed Week 2017: More Cars, Trucks, Racing, and Scenes From The Sprawling Pits
So here’s a photo-set that I shot on Tuesday and it is basically presented as a “day in the life” of the salt type of situation. There’s the killer Barracuda with its twin...
Sleeper For Sale: This Chevelle Has Four Doors, a Big Block, and a Blower!
Sleepers come in all shapes and sizes. From tricky mini-vans to tiny pocket rockets and muscle cars that appear to have seen better days, there’s no wrong way to sleeper in our book. That being...
Anything Goes: This 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Can Do Just About Everything!
Early on Sunday morning, as Haley and I were packing up Angry Grandpa for the long drive back to Kentucky, few cars remained from the MSHS group that we had been hanging around with all week. One...
Amazing Video: Original Footage Of Don Garlits Winning The 1967 US Nationals And Shaving His Beard At The Starting Line – All Time Stuff!
I know that I am a weird guy and I am OK with saying that out loud because when I watch a video like this, I feel myself getting emotional because of how cool the whole scene is. Just one of the...
This 1970 Dodge Challenger Is Mopar Perfection: Hemi, 4-Speed, Black On Black, With A Dana 60.
In 1970 everyone was buzzing about the new Mopars, but it was the Cuda that was the star of the show. With that said, Dodge’s new Challenger was one hell of a hot rod and shared the same E-Body...
