The Devil’s Taxicab: An Australian Valiant 10.5 Outlaw Quarter-Mile Monster
There is just something sinister about seeing a monster door car pulling into the lanes with a great big bug catcher sitting on top of a ton of cubic inches, isn’t there? In the case of Custom...
eBay Find: Two Wheels, Two Tires, $5,000 Starting Bid – Scary Thing? They May Be Worth It
I have not been trying to turn BangShift into eBay rare tire weekly but after finding the old Firestone Bonneville tires last week and not stumbling upon this pair of magnificent wheels/tires I...
NHRA Summit Racing Series Division 7 Final Results From Auto Club Dragway
Words by Eric Lotz – NHRA Photos by Bob Johnson – NHRA Pacific Division In the final results from the NHRA Summit Racing Series Pacific Division Finals held at Auto Club Dragway in...
Fuel Altered Fury! One Minute Les Mayhew AA/FA Video Captures The Insanity Of The Cars Perfectly
Good fuel altered runs are beautifully violent fleeting moments in time that you keep playing over in your head long after the actual pass was made. Why? There’s an anticipation...
From The Land Of Oz: Check Out This 8-Second Ford Ute Run The Quarter At Sydney Dragway
As the Earth tilts and we start to get cooler in the Northern Hemisphere, in the land of Oz things are finally starting to warm up. I think…from what we can tell, the fun never does seem to end...
Shakedown At The Summit 2015: Here’s Our Final Load Of Killer Photos From The Race
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Well we have finally worked our way to the bottom the massive pile of photos that Mike Brooks shot while he was at the Shakedown at the Summit 2015. This race has...
Land Speed Action Photos: More High Speed Images From The Ohio Mile September Meet
(Photos by David Whealon/DWPhotos.net) – Land speed racers are a very interesting lot. For the most part they do not get to ply their trade nearly as much as people who race stock cars or go...
This Hellcat Challenger Whips Up On The Unsuspecting At A VMAX200 Event In Europe!
Ranting, raving, and fawning over the Hellcats should be over…they are out and about, and hunting. Quarter mile times are known, top speeds are known. Done and done. What’s left?...
Land Speed Coverage: Action Photos From The 2015 ECTA September Meet – Final Runs Of 2015
(Photos by David Whealon) – The final event of the 2015 ECTA season was a barn burner for sure. The place was jammed packed with more motorcycles and hot rods than anyone could remember, the...
Shakedown At The Summit 2015 Photo Bomb: More On Track Action From The Wild Norwalk Weekend
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – The negative Nancys of the world that think they know the sport of drag racing and don’t will be the first to tell you that there are no young people involved...
eBay Find: This Amazingly Preserved Set Of Four Firestone Bonneville Racing Tires Date To 1964!
It is not often that we run stories about old tires here at BangShift but this is a set of rubber that is unique, interesting, and is unused even though they were manufactured 51 years ago and...
Ten Cars, One Quarter Mile: Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race 5!
In what has turned into tradition for the guys over at Motor Trend, the field of new cars battling it out for the title in their annual Best Driver’s Car series are hauled off to an airport...
Death Wish? We Have The Craziest Looking Thing We Have Ever Seen – V8 Snowmobile
We know a bunch of guys from Wisconsin and those guys are some of the hardest core hot rodder, partiers, and lovers of life that we have ever run into. Why? Because for lots of the year Wisconsin is...
This Turbo-Four Eagle Talon Is A Monster That Can Hold It’s Own Against Turbo V8s
I had all sorts of Mitsubishi-related jokes lined up. “Danger to Manifold”. “Dude, I almost had you!” “See crank walk. Walk, crank, walk.” Fine…we all saw...
