Merrill Ice Drags Coverage – 100+ MPH In The Eighth On ICE! 100% BangShift Approved Mayhem
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – For us Midwestern gearheads it’s not often that we get to hear open headers and smell the sweet scent of race gas in the cold winter months. And even...
See The Don Garlits Quest For 200mph In An Electric Dragster As Never Before – Nitro America Film From Inside Testing
This is a rare exception to Les Mayhew’s always loud and rocking drag racing videos. No, we’re not saying that the quality or story telling is lacking but what is not present is the noise...
Who In England Is Drag Racing A Richard Petty-Tribute Plymouth Superbird?
Yes, this video is a couple of years old, but let’s face it: it’s not everyday you see any Plymouth Superbird doing a burnout, much less a Superbird done up as a tribute to Richard...
Watch Dewayne Mills Incredible Wreck From Lights Out Six At SGMP – Camaro Takes Flight!
Legendary small tire racer Dwayne Mills walked away from an incredible wreck during Lights Out Six at South Georgia Motorsports Park yesterday when his 1968 Camaro, the famed “Golden...
Watch The Wild Peace Maker Cadillac Wheelstander Spit Out A Rear Axle At Great Lakes Drag-O-Way In 1987!
A little while back we put out the call for info on the Peace Maker wheelstanders from our readers. Jim Brewer ran a series of these Caddy bodied exhibition machines and they were all cool to look...
Crash And Burn: Any Guesses As To Why This Maverick Wound Up Going Turtle?
It’s official for the driver of this Ford Maverick: this day is gonna suck. Information is very limited on what actually happened at Memphis Motorsports Park late last year, but the video from...
Sleeper Footage: A Trabant Versus A Nissan GT-R – Which Will Win, The Angry Vacuum Cleaner Or The Beer Can With Headlights?
In stock form a Trabant’s two-cycle engine would struggle to power one of the Nissan GT-R’s turbos, so just what exactly is going on here? A lesson in humility, my friends. Look at the...
Australian Burnout: “UIDIOT”, A Chevrolet-Powered Ford Cortina, Lets Loose At Brashernats
As most of us continue to freeze our bits off here in the Northern Hemisphere, in Australia they are still enjoying their summer. And of course, that means that we get more and more gratuitous...
Pro Mod Action: More Great Photos From The Pro Mod Class At The 2015 US Street Nationals
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – As we showed you earlier in the week, there was a great variety of iron at the US Street Nationals this winter. Racers from all over the country escaped the...
The Parting Shift: Watch This Driver Pull Wheelies And Rip Gears In A Beautiful, Clutchless G-Force Equipped Monte Carlo
After Nutting’s transmission spit the bit in his Monte Carlo last week he has been mulling which direction to go with a gearbox. Should he just have the 200 rebuilt and be done with it? Should...
Watch Lee Shepherd and Bob Glidden Square Off In the Pro Stock Final At The ’79 Cajun Nationals! Big Mac and Evans On The Call
Well this video certainly touches ALL the right bases, huh? For starters we have Bob Glidden taking on Lee Shepherd which was a common sight not only in 1979 but in the years follow up until Shepherd...
Indiana Loses A Strip – Can The Eighth Mile At Chandler Motorsports Park Be Saved?
The drag strip at Chandler Motorsports Park in Indiana has been open for more than 50 years but as recent news tell us, the hometown drag strip will no longer be opening its gates for drag racers to...
Dynamite Run – A Documentary About the 1974 AHRA Winternationals
We got a note from pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian cluing us in the on the fact that she unearthed and posted an totally cool old drag racing documentary film called “Dynamite Run”....
Update: 1949 Cadillac Is The Standard Of The World (When It Comes To Sleepers) – A Total Q-Ship From Hell! (And Now It Is For Sale)
When Jon Sandahl called me up and said, “Hey, you should probably come over here and take a look at this thing,” in reference to a 1949 Cadillac coupe, I was a little confused but hey,...
