Plain Wrapper: A Nitrous Infused, LS-swapped 1984 Ford LTD Street/Strip Stomper
Dec 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart4
In an auto shop class in Colorado Springs in the fall of 1999, I came across a unicorn of a car, a Ford LTD LX. For those that don’t know the story, Ford and Bondurant partnered up to build...
Hang With Jay Leno As He Barks The Tires Around Town In This Hemi Dodge
Dec 20, 2016Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Hang With Jay Leno As He Barks The Tires Around Town In This Hemi Dodge
Jay Leno is hilarious, not only on stage as we recently experienced, but also in his shop and in his cars. Why in his cars? For us, it’s because he gets such real joy out of driving them, just...
Ride Along Video: Climb In The Awesome Limited Drag Radial Firebird of Frank Mewshaw!
Dec 20, 2016Brian Lohnes1
I have personally witnessed Frank Mewshaw do some incredible things on a drag strip. I have seen him cross the eighth mile finish line of a drag radial race on the back wheels, I have seen him pull...
One More Pass: This Short Film Shows The Drag Week Experience Of Larry Dixon
Dec 20, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on One More Pass: This Short Film Shows The Drag Week Experience Of Larry Dixon
Drag Racing’s version of the Ironman Triathlon. That’s what three time NHRA top fuel world champion and Drag Week alum Larry Dixon calls the event in in this awesome video made by the...
2016 Memories Video: Bucky Hess Suffers A Sickening Smack At The US Nationals
Dec 20, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on 2016 Memories Video: Bucky Hess Suffers A Sickening Smack At The US Nationals
The 2016 US Nationals hold a lot of great memories for me and I’ll touch on some of those later this week but today we’re looking at the most painful thing I had to call all year and that...
This 1965 Dodge Coronet Has A Drag Race History And Is Now A Rip Roaring Street Car
Dec 20, 2016Brian Lohnes1
Well, almost a street car. You’ll need to get some exhaust and stuff on this thing but you are looking at one cool Mopar in our eyes anyway. This was a former Nostalgia Super Stock car that has...
Watch The Proline Powered, EKanoo Pro Lexus RCF Run 5.54/272 In The Quarter Mile (Time slip photo, too!)
Dec 20, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The Proline Powered, EKanoo Pro Lexus RCF Run 5.54/272 In The Quarter Mile (Time slip photo, too!)
No, this isn’t the record…yet. What you are about to see is the first full quarter mile pass out of the Proline Racing powered, EKanoo Racing Pro Lexus RCF. This thing goes a rip-roaring...
2016 Memories: Steven Whitely and Shane Molinari Have Wild Lane Swap In Atlanta
Dec 19, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on 2016 Memories: Steven Whitely and Shane Molinari Have Wild Lane Swap In Atlanta
The early part of the 2016 J&A Service Company pro mod season was a wild affair. We’re talking wrecks and craziness the likes of which were happening at a very high rate. Two of the...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Exciting Class In Drag Racing Today?
Dec 19, 2016Brian Lohnes21
This is a pretty interesting question in our eyes because the sport of drag racing has drastically changed over the last 20 years. It is more scattered, fragments, and splintered than it has ever...
US Street Nationals Are Coming! We’re Going To Be There – This Video From Last Year Will Warm You Up!
Dec 18, 2016Brian Lohnes1
If there is a track that garners more early season drag racing headlines than Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida, we have no idea which one that would be. Hell, already the place is generating...
Watch The 1971 Nova Of Nathan Shaw Running A Stock 5.3 Block, An LS2 Crank, And Boost Run 7.90s!
Dec 18, 2016Brian Lohnes4
(Video and quotes by VictoryRedColorado YouTube channel) – For years one of the things that that LS world has been most, umm, enthusiastic about is going fast while using as many stock parts...
Dead Drag Strip Files: More Funny Cars and Cool Door Slammers From Montgomery Dragway
Dec 18, 2016Brian Lohnes1
(By Doug Gregory) – Local street racers would come to test before heading out to run for bucks at a couple well-known spots just North of Montgomery. Most of these were modest sleepers that...
This Beautiful 1969 Dodge Super Bee Looks Like A Restored Stocker – It Is NOT
Dec 18, 2016Brian Lohnes4
This is pretty close to our perfect definition of a resto-modded car. As much as I hate that term and its overuse it does do a damned good job of describing this complete beast in baby wolf’s...
Dead Drag Strip File: More Action, Cool Cars, And Racing From The Long Gone Montgomery Dragway
Dec 16, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on Dead Drag Strip File: More Action, Cool Cars, And Racing From The Long Gone Montgomery Dragway
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Local support for racers came from places like FAST auto parts (did a bunch of machine work and built motors), Bucky’s transmission, and SECO performance...










