Building A 1979-2004 Mustang? Look At Chris Alston’s Chassisworks For All Your Suspension Needs – Crazy Options
Everyone knows that Chris Alston’s Chassisworks is an innovator in many areas of the suspension game. Their drag racing equipment underpins some of the quickest and fastest small tire cars in...
Car Feature: This 1971 Nova Has Big Cubes, Big Compression, A Big Cam, A Classic Looks That We Love
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Tommy Keeton of West Liberty, KY owns this Autumn Gold ’71 Nova SS. We met Tommy for the first time at the 2014 Boonesborough Boogie Nationals held...
Watch This Race Pull A Massive Wheelstand At The Dutch Classic And Power Through The Run Like A Boss
They don’t always turn out this good, but when they do it is true poetry in motion. This video was taken last weekend at the Dutch Classic, one of the great sportsman drag races in the world....
Watch One Of The Most Valiant Drag Race Driving Efforts We Have Ever Seen – Sideways, Stuck Throttle(?), Almost Saves It Completely
To be fair, we consider this a save. Yeah, the guy scraped the wall but when you watch this video and see how bad it could have been, that wall scrape is a drop in the bucket, literally. We’re...
Wild Photos: Altered Wheelbase Wheelstand Sequences From The 2013 California Hot Rod Reunion
We’re getting pumped up for our LIVE streaming broadcast of the 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion from Bakersfield, California next weekend. To get you all up on the chip we decided to grab some...
This Street Legal 1995 Olds Cutlass RWD Conversion Is Pretty Neat In A Freaky Way – Nice Fabrication Work
As we have often explained here on BangShift, there is good weird and there is bad weird. We’d consider this 1995 Olds Cutlass the good kind of weird because it was a long term project that...
Caption This: If You Think This Drag Racing Skateboard Is Impressive, You Oughta See The Ramp He’s Aiming For
We’ve showcased many things over the years that simply shouldn’t belong on a dragstrip…be it golf cart, lawn mower, even a jet-propelled porta-potty. But this one just might be the...
Ride With Tony Bartone On His 271mph Run In Epping – The Listen To Him Issue Vow, “Wait ‘Till Bakersfield”
Tony Bartone, Steve Boggs, and the rest of the crew have been romping and stomping their way through every round of competition they have seen this year. The car has won ever race it has appeared at...
BREAKING NEWS! Hot Rod Releases Proposed Drag Week Rules For 2015 And Beyond!
We all knew it was coming, and it’s now official as Freiburger released the new proposed set of rules for Hot Rod’s Drag Week. While it’s not finalized, this is a heads-up of what...
Race Coverage: The 2014 Nitro Nationals At Osage Tulsa Raceway Park – Funny Cars, Dragsters, Altereds, And More
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – I’m sure all you fellow Bangshifter’s are familiar with Tulsa Raceway Park’s bi-annual Throwdown in T-Town eighth mile Pro Mod Races streamed live...
Ride In A Cool Hot Rod For A Few Laps Down The Beach During the 2014 Oilers Car Club Race Of Gentlemen
The Oilers Car Club Race Of Gentleman is officially a automotive cultural phenomenon. Three years after the initial running of the event, it is drawing cars and people from across the country to...
Shakedown At The Summit 2014: Out Last Flaming Blast Of Images From The Doorslammer Battle In Norwalk
(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photos) – Well, we have come to the end of Dom Damato’s fantastic images from the Shakedown At The Summit 2014 which was held under conditions that had racers...
This Behind The Scenes Look At The Hot Rodding Film “This Is Long Beach” Is Pretty Awesome
The history of hot rodding needs to be preserved and films like This is Long Beach by Brian Darwas are just the ticket to making that happen. The film tells the story of the Cavilers car club,...
