eBay Find: This Third Generation Pontiac Firebird Has Stacked Blowers, Invisible Roll Cage Bars, And A Fake Hemi – Wow
Normally under circumstances like this we try to keep the person who tipped us off to the vehicle you are about to see anonymous. In order to do that we’re going to protect his name by saying...
Barnstormin’: A Drag Racing Revolution Repeats Itself Nearly 50 Years On The Dot
As a sport of ritual and repetition, drag racing is nearly unparalleled. That whole repetition thing goes a lot deeper than burnout, backup, stage, and run though. In the case of the current state of...
Watch The Quickest Pass In Drag Radial Racing History Lose On A Holeshot! Quickest Side By Side Ever
Yes, the current drag radial world record held by Kyle Heuttel was set on a losing pass! In this video you will see Shawn Ayers who is driving the Fletcher Cox owned Mustang actually catch a win...
Sacramento’s NHRA Heritage Series And Funny Car Fever Hand Out Wallys
(Photos and story by Stephen Justice and Wayne Lederer – Courtesy of NHRA Communications) A lot of new faces showed up at Sacramento Raceway’s winner circle Sunday after the conclusion...
Woah Vs GO Part 2: The Proponents Of Nostalgia Funny Car Body Evolution Get Their Say
Back in late February we showed you part one of Les Mayhew’s two part series on nostalgia nitro funny cars called, “Woah! VS Go!” which was made for CompetitionPlus.com. If you did...
Drag Action Gallery: Opening Day At Galot Motorsports Park In North Carolina Was Awesome
(Words and photos by David Whealon) – Was it worth the long three year wait? Judging by the well over 300 drag racers that braved the heavy morning rains and showed up at the newly opened...
BangShift Brawl: What’s The Greatest Factory Built Drag Car Ever?
So with this weekend’s upcoming NMCA/NMRA All-Star race we’ll get the season’s second dose of the awesome Holley EFI Factory Supercar class. This is a heads up eliminator where COPO...
eBay Find: This 1977 Pontiac Catalina Safari Station Wagon Is Perfect And 400 Powered – Sleeper Potential!
You can bust my chops all you want but I see this car and I see potential for something really, really fun. For starters the car is absolutely immaculate and has to be the finest 1977 Pontiac...
Great Video: Check Out This Feature With Rick Hoback And His 200mph C5 Corvette That Did The Job With A Full Interior And Stock Bottom End
Everyone claims that they want a multi-use car that they can use to compete or at least participate in multiple different faces of racing and do so in a competitive fashion. Rick Hoback is no...
“Dyno Dom” Blasco Assumes Director of Operations Role At Memphis International Raceway
Like one of those logic puzzles where you can only move one piece at a time to get to the end result, such has been the news coming out of the drag racing world over the last day. Just down the page...
This Goodyear Commercial From 1988 Features Bob Glidden’s Pro Stocker
We sure do dig old commercials like this one from Goodyear. We can’t remember the last time a commercial that featured anything Drag Racing related had anyone in it that didn’t drive...
In Memoriam: Jake Brantner, Drag Week Veteran, Fabricator, Builder And Father
It saddens us to inform you that Drag Week racer Jake Brantner is gone. Brantner, 39, was gunned down in the parking lot of a strip mall in Kansas City, Missouri in the evening hours of Sunday, April...
Dyno Dom’s Sikeston Dragway Is Now Jeffers Motorsports Park – Famed Chassis Builder Buys Dragstrip
One of the great stories that the drag racing world has produced over the last couple of years is that of a small eighth mile drag strip in Sikeston, Missouri. A man named Dom Blasco took ownership...
Crummy News: The Awesome Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Suffered A Major Crash Last Weekend – Driver OK
(Photos from Greg Lippard’s FB page) – If there has been a race car that we’ve been unabashed fan boys over here at BangShift it is the awesome Wild Rat injected fuel altered...
