BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Exciting Class In Drag Racing Today?
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!
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!
(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
(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
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
(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...
Dead Drag Strip Files: Speedworld, Three Years After Closing It’s Gates For The Last Time
Every last dragstrip I’ve ever ran down in anger is still alive: Little River Dragway (formerly Temple Academy Dragway) in Holland, Texas, Pacific Raceway near Kent, Washington, Bremerton...
Cleetus Gets His Shot At Running The “Open Container” Chevrolet Blazer, Hand Controls And All!
It isn’t too often you can get Cleetus McFarland out of his comfort zone. Whether it be petting bald eagles, doing burnouts in a Mustang with a crowd present, or even the one time we know he...
Why Do I Wish I Had $1200 To Throw Away So I Could Buy This?
It was listed for $1800, and then lowered to $1500 obro (Or Best Reasonable Offer), so I think $1200 cash buys this Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. Maybe it’s because I bracket raced a Pontiac Grand...
Heritage/Nostalgia Drag Racing – Lots To Do In 2017!
Three-time IHRA and three-time NHRA Heritage Series Champion Jason Rupert (Photos by Jeff Burghard, Mike Burghardt & Darr Hawthorne -Words by Darr Hawthorne) 2017 is transitional year for...
The Coolest Speed Part For Sale On eBay Right Now Is This 1939 McCulloch Supercharger
When most people think of hot rodding they think it started just after WWII and grew from there. The truth is that it started long before WWII and then completely exploded after the GIs got home from...
Dead Drag Strip File: More Great Photos From The Late Montgomery Dragway
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I saw my first drag racing accidents there and one of them is featured in this collection. Unfortunately the track was lined on both sides with a narrow...
PDRA World Finals Action Photos – One Last Look At The Baddest Eighth Mile Cars in The World
(Photos by David Whealon – DW-Photos) – We’re back with our second and final installment of sweet David Whealon photos from the 2016 PDRA World Finals at Virginia Motorsports...
