Two Extreme eBay Nitro Dragster Finds, You Pick ‘Em!
(Photo courtesy of Jon Asher – Words by Darr Hawthorne) – Recently a friend sent an eBay link to one of my all time favorite SoCal dragsters, the restoration of the legendary Warren...
Watch LIVE FIA Drag Racing From Germany’s Famed Hockenheim Ring This Weekend!
(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – Once a year the best of the European teams gather on the “Rico Anthes Quartermile” for their joint trial of strength and this wonderful drag...
Tune In To Live Audio From Bonneville Speed Week 2016 – We’ve Got The Link
If you want live video from Bonneville, pay attention to the BangShift Facebook page for videos that Chad and I will do from around the salt over the course of the next week. They will be sporadic...
Street And Strip Master: This 1972 Pontiac Ventura Will Run Tens All Day Long, Then Cruise Home
We like speed on a budget. The less money you have to spend to haul serious ass, the happier we are. And no car has spelled “low-buck” quite like the GM X-cars. The NOVA series (for...
Jason Rupert Repeats With 3rd IHRA Funny Car Championship At Northern Nationals
(Photos by Big Bob Snyder – Words by Darr Hawthorne and IHRA Communications) Mother Nature once again came into play at the IHRA Northern Nationals in Martin, Michigan and prevented teams from...
The Crow Mod Will Be Pontiac Powered At The Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals
(Photos: Jason ‘Nubs’ Dun – Larry Jeffers Race Cars) – So the internet has been openly speculating about what will be powering Justin Shearer’s Crow Mod at the...
Money No Object: This Blown A/Gas 1964 Dodge 330 Is Giving Us Visions Of Racing Heaven!
It’s almost too perfect: a 1964 Dodge, packing a Hemi with a blower, set up to rock A/Gas, so close to being street worthy it’s not funny, painted bright red, with great trim and a stance...
More No Prep Nuttiness! This Radial Equipped Nova Spins A High Speed 360 and Only Hits Cones
We’re back with another crazy video from the no prep race at Kansas Speedway the other night. This time we see a pair of genuinely beautiful Novas lined up next to each other. Both cars have...
Buy These Two Whitney Twin Wasp 800hp Radial Engines And Start Your Bonneville Freak Today!
So this week at the Bonneville Salt Flats has done what it usually does. It gets our brains spinning at like 8,900rpm and we want to build some sort of bizarre freakshow car or truck to come out and...
The Scoop! Here Are All Of The Cars (and Trucks) Making Record Run Attempts On Tuesday Morning
The winds kicked up on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday afternoon causing SCTA officials to cut the Monday portion of Speed Week off earlier than planned. Runs were halted around 5pm and the...
No Prep Insanity: Watch This Blown Camaro And A Crazy Datsun Do A Bad Job At Crashing
The pit road at Kansas Speedway was recently used as a no-prep drag strip at an event called Operation Octane. As you will see, the event drew a BUNCH of people and there was a lot of wild racing...
Danny Thompson Clobbers Way To 400mph Record In Challenger 2 Streamliner!
As of this writing Danny Thompson is the fastest man on the salt at SCTA Speed Week 2016 after a triumphant 402mph run in his Challenger 2 streamliner on Sunday morning that sealed his place in the...
Salty Secret: Here’s An Old Turbocharged Triumph (We Think) Engine That Isn’t
I was cruising the Bonneville impound area last night with Chad and Bret Kepner and we happened upon a motorcycle that will be running for record book status today. It looked to us like the bike was...
