Dick Landy’s Original 1964 Dodge 330 Lightweight Is For Sale On eBay – First AWB Chrysler, Lions Record Holder, First Funny Car?
If you have $375,000 burning a hole in your pants pocket you can own a legitimate and largely intact piece of drag racing history. Not only is this one of about 50 lightweight 1964 Dodges produced...
Hemi Challenge At The Dutch Coverage: Pit and Action Photos From The Super Stock Hemi Challenge At Maple Grove
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – They are not the fastest cars in super stock. They are not the most complicated cars in super stock. They are not the loudest cars in super stock, but they are the...
Watch Don Fezell Make The Quickest Stock Eliminator Pass In History 8.50!
It was May of 2001 when the first nine second pass was made in stock eliminator. It was April of 2012 when Don Fezell punched his Cobra Jet into the eight second zone, smashing the eight second...
Drag Week 2014: Justin Oney’s Photo Diary – Day 5 Tulsa Raceway Park
(Photos by Justin Oney) – If there was one thing that NOBODY wanted to see at Tulsa Raceway Park on Friday morning it was rain. The wetness screwed up the schedule for the rest of the event...
Justin Oney’s Drag Week 2014 Photo Diary – We Pick It Back Up In Great Bend, Kansas On Day Four
(Photos by Justin Oney) – Last week Justin Oney was like, “Hey are you going to run the rest of my photos from Drag Week?” I thought for a second and nearly barfed in my mouth...
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...
