BREAKING NEWS: Captain Jack McClure Will Race His Famous Rocket Go Kart In Two Weeks At Motec Word Finals In Florida
WOW! About six months ago, Captain Jack McClure contacted us and said that he was close in getting permission to run his famed hydrogen peroxide rocket kart at a drag strip here in the USA for the...
In Japan They Run Top Fuel Cars On Unprepped Surfaces And The Results Are As Wild As You’d Expect (Video)
Yes, there are top fuel cars in Japan. Yes, they get run. No they don’t prep the tracks…at all. Why? People we have spoken to told us that prepping the track is viewed as...
SEMA 2013 Mini-Feature: Galpin Ford’s Recreation Of The Awesome Backup Pickup Wheelstander Rules
Editor’s note: Our 2014 SEMA show coverage will begin in earnest on Monday, so this weekend we’re looking back at least year’s show to get you revved up! So the SEMA 2013 hits keep...
Heads Up Drag Racing Action From The Brainerd-Optimist Drag Strip Season Ending Bash – Wheels Up, Unique Stuff!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We’ve covered several of Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s heads up events in the past few years, and it’s amazing to see how much it has grown. With...
Watch Frankie Taylor’s Pro Mod Battle Howard Farris’s War Wagon Fuel Altered In A Match Race At North Star Dragway
We often hear the lament that showmanship is dead in drag racing and that the whole thing has gotten stale. Those cries come from people who keep a very narrow view of the sport and don’t...
The Larson Race Cars ZL1 Camaro – A Twin Turbo Big Block, Back Half, Drag Week Destroyer! All Modern Stuff Still Works!
Apparently Larry Larson has fully recovered from the post traumatic stress of Drag Week 2015 because he rolled one of the coolest cars in the history of the world out of his shop yesterday. This 2013...
2014 California Hot Rod Reunion: Door Slamma Jamma – A Last Look At Cool Cars With Doors At Bakersfield
We’re thrashing to get ready for SEMA around here and that means the warmth of Las Vegas for a few days, at least for this east coaster. With snow flurries in the forecast for the weekend, my...
I-40 Dragway Is For Sale! Buy Your Own Strip In Tennessee For $850,000
(Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – If I hadn’t recently misplaced about a million dollars I’d be making the first offer on Crossville, Tennessee’s I-40 Dragway. The track has been...
BREAKING NEWS: Dave Connolly To Drive Top Fuel For Bob Vandergriff Racing in 2015 On NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Tour
The rumors have have been swirling for months have apparently been true as it has been officially announced by Bob Vandergriff Racing that Dave Connolly and Larry Dixon will be the team’s two...
Powerhouse: We Tour The Legendary Jan-Cen Racing Engines Shop Where Big Horsepower And Pro Mod Championships Are Made
(Words and photos by Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer) – First, a little background. I’ve been contributing to Bangshift since 2012 along with fellow Bangshifter, Jose Ferrer. We both grew up and...
Kontinentals Drag Of The Drag Race Coverage: Old Hot Rods, The Coolest Junior Dragster Ever, And Big Fun In Texas
(Photos by Bob Paxton) – Here’s our second and final collection of photos from the awesome Kontinentals Car Club Day of the Drag Race event which was held at the eternally cool Little...
BUY IT NOW! 1987 Yugo Powered By 180hp Snowmobile Engine Mounted In The Rear – 100% BangShift Approved Insanity
This thing is so far past hack Yugo jokes, it isn’t even funny. How about a brilliant and kind of weird homebuilt hot rod that uses the car’s tin can light weight in its favor and uses...
2014 California Hot Rod Reunion: Doorslammers and Nothing But Doorslammers At Famoso
If all anyone wanted to do at the drag strip was to get to the finish line in the most consistent and efficient way possible, the world would be awash with dragsters and that would be a boring world....
