Final Hot Rod Drag Week Rules Announced: Some Good, Some Bad, All Right Here
As all regular BangShifters know, Drag Week is near and dear to our hearts here at BnagShift.com, so there was no way we were going to miss Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Rules Announcement at...
Watch Quain Stott Make The Greatest Gasser Save We Have Ever Seen – In Car And Out of Car Video
(We love great driving “saves” around here and the best save we saw in 2014 came from Rockingham Dragway and featured the legendary driving skills of Quain Stott. A Champion pro mod racer...
Watch A Fuel Altered Crash And Then Come Back Up The Drag Strip The Wrong Way At Full Throttle Before Exploding – Terrifying!
(Editor’s note: Looking back at the stuff we posted in 2014, this is by far the more terrifying video we showed you. It bears watching again, even if you have already seen it. Watching a AA/FA...
Video: The Wildest Starting Line Crash In Drag Racing History – Funny Car Rear Ends Mustang!
Thanks to BangShift forum member BigDad, I found this footage of the wildest drag strip crash I have ever seen. My eyes have witnessed some true weirdness over the years at tracks. I thought the time...
Five Minutes Of Drag Wheelies, Wrecks, And Saves From All Over The Country Including Rare Footage Of A Thundering Injected Nitro Pro Mod
More Urban Hillbilly Action Video perfection here in the form of Sean Melton’s latest YouTube release from his vaults. In this video we see everything from oil pan bashing wheelies at Orlando...
Jaime Sarte, Innovative And Prolific 1970s Funny Car Chassis Builder Has Passed At Age 72 – Built Some Of The Quickest Cars Of His Era
(Lead photo credit: American Nitro FB page) – We were informed last night of the passing, at age 72 of Jaime Sarte who was an innovative, popular, and well known drag racing chassis builder in...
Watch The Hybrid Rocket Engine That Will Help Power Bloodhound SSC Get Tested In Norway – Will The Extra Boost Push Them To 1,000 MPH?
We have been showing you some videos of the progress and basic system testing that has been going on around the massive effort behind the Bloodhound SSC land speed vehicle that will attempt to become...
Land Speed Video: Watch Brandon Leggitt Thunder Down The El Mirage Course Setting A Record A 231 And Making Wonderful Noise
There’s a beauty to this video that gearheads will get an most others will totally not understand. Whether it is the vastness of the setting that the car is racing through, whether is is the...
Watch Mike Finnegan’s Blasphemi ’55 Dominate A Hellcat Challenger, A Tank Tracked FC170, And A Breadbox With Wheels In A Drag Race
This is a fun watch from our pals over the at the Motor Trend channel on YouTube as it pits Mike Finnegan’s Blasphemi 1955 Chevy against a brand new 707hp Hellcat Challenger, a mildly breathed...
Tech Video: Moroso Shows You How To Check Oil Pump Pickup To Pan Clearance Like Pro Engine Builders Do It
The crew at Moroso has produced a neat technical video that shows a couple of ways to properly check oil pump pickup to pan clearance when building an engine. This is a very important measurement...
Matt Hagan Makes Quickest Unofficial Funny Car Pass In History – 3.954?! Time Slip Inside
(Photos: Matt Hagan’s Twitter feed) – Sure it was only a test hit but what a test hit it was! The duo of driver Matt Hagan and crew chief Dickie Venables, along with their hard working...
Step Aside Sonny: Rich Sedelnick Is Still Pounding Drag Strips All Over New England At 81 Years Old
(Words and photos by Mike Bradford) – Since the beginning of time men have searched near and far for ways to live longer and happier lives. The fountain of youth may be a mythical glowing...
Awful Windy In Here: Watch This Turbocharged Nova’s Passenger Door Do All Kinds Of Creepy Stuff At High Speed
(By Jason Sands) – Good buddy Brian Peterson decided that the 9.0’s at 149mph that his nitrous Nova was running wasn’t good enough so he switched to twin turbos instead. The car...
…..And Then There Were Three – Andy Frost Releases Plans For His Red Victor And His Hopes To Grab The Record Back
It has been a watershed year in the world of the “World’s quickest” street legal car battle with Larry and Chad’s wild S10 creation running roughshod over the existing records...
