Watch This Mustang Pull A Massive Eighth Mile Wheelstand With No Bars, Smash The Ground And End Up On The Wheels
The World Power Wheelstanding Championships was born from the fertile brain of my pal Ron Leek. Over the years, that contest has gone from a local curiosity to a national deal with guys showing up...
Grumpy Jenkins’ 1974 Pro Stock Hauler To Hit The Auction Block In Harrisburg, PA Soon – What Will It Sell For?
We were tipped off to what should be the most interesting item (to BangShifters anyway) at the 2014 Mecum Harrisburg Auction that’s coming in a couple of weeks. This item is the 1974 Pro Stock...
Tony Pedregon Chooses Prolong Super Lubricants As Primary Lubricant Sponsor For 2014
It is always cool when we see BangShift sponsors involved in the hot and heavy world of automotive competition and Prolong recently jumped into the deep end of the lubricants pool with Tony Pedregon...
2014 Glory Days At The Grove Coverage: Gassers, Funny Cars, Street Freaks, and More
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we dropped the first group of photos by Joe Grippo on you and today we’re back with more from the 2014 Glory Days at the Grove nostalgia drag race....
This 1500+hp, Twin Turbo 454 LSx Powered Toyota Mini-Van Is An Aussie Toyota We Can Totally Get Behind
There’s an old expression that I like to use while announcing as a way to sum up a weird, different, or completely off the wall car. “If you are going to be a bear, you may as well be a...
Dragway 42 Opening Delayed Until 2015 – Construction Work Slowed Due To Poor Weather Conditions
Ma Nature can take the best laid plans and make mince meat of them and that’s about what’s happened to the team at Dragway 42 out in Ohio this Spring/Summer. The issue is rain and they...
This Hilarious Craigslist Ad Makes Us Want To Buy The Engineless 1978 El Camino It Is Pitching
BangShifter Jake McDonald gets the gold star for finding and pointing us in the direction of this hilarious and awesome Craigslist ad selling a 1978 Chevy El Camino in Oregon. We have seen some funny...
Awesome News For Northwest Drag Fans – Spokane County Raceway Joins IHRA
Ever since Orville Moe, the longtime owner and operator of Spokane Raceway Park was thrown out of his facility in 2008 by track investors and the courts, the County-owned facility has been in...
Racing Junk Find: This 1972 Dodge Colt Wagon Is A Low 11-Second Bracket Bomber From Mopar Heaven
Dodge Colts are cool for a couple of reasons. Firstly, you don’t see them all that often. Secondly, they have interesting history in the sport of drag racing and were found in Pro Stock and...
Glory Days Nostalgia Drags Coverage From Maple Grove: Old Drag Iron From Barn Fresh To Restored Perfection
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Just about a week ago, our man on the Pennsylvanian scene Joe Grippo attended the Glory Days nostalgia drags at Maple Grove Raceway and sent us a boatload of photos...
Want To Know What 168 kmh Looks Like On A Mobility Scooter? Watch This.
Mobility scooters, like the Rascal and Hoveround are what most people think of when they hear the words Mobility Scooter. And with jillions of them being sold and driven around stores near you,...
Check Out This Video Of Don Garlits Talking About Swamp Rat 37, And His Pursuit For 200 MPH!
Check out this video that Amy and Dave Dayton, of ARS-TV.com, put together interviewing Don Garlits about his Swamp Rat 37 all electric dragster. Garlits and his crew are attempting to run over 200...
Dueling Nitrous Explosion Video: A Pair Of Pro Mods Both POP Their Scoops At Norwalk
When Jim Laurita and Dan Stevenson headed down the strip during qualifying at the 2014 Summit Racing NHRA Nationals last weekend, neither expected to kill their hood scoops during the lap. Funny...
The Places They Raced: An Abandoned Street Racing Haven
It is a straightaway to nowhere located off a bustling secondary road in Braintree, Massachsuetts. Ironically, it is now part of a nature reservation, but for several years in the 1960s and early...
