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...
Killer Historic Drag Video: Highlights From Arizona’s Beeline Dragway Circa The Early 1970s
With the recent announcement that Arizona’s Speedworld dragway would be closing down we couldn’t help but think about another dead Arizona strip that was once a hotbed of national level...
Screaming Video: Watch A 2.3L Turbo Ford Clip Nearly 10K On The Chassis Dyno In A Drag Car!
Job Spetter Jr has been tuning full tilt turbo and EFI engines for a long time. His name is very well known around drag racing circles and he’s both driven and tuned others to lot and lots of...
Ebay Find: 1974 Vega Wagon Funny Car For Sale-Who Wants Their Own Nostalgia Ride?
BangShifter Joe Haber sent me this gem from his backyard in Tucson, Arizona. A full-on funny car and ’74 Vega Wagon body, this thing just needs an engine and trans (as well as a cleanup and...
Nitro Video: A Quick Recap, Explosions Included, From Bakersfield’s Saturday Night Nitro Show Last Weekend
Les Mayhew, the drag racing film making maven was at the Saturday Night Nitro event at Bakersfield last weekend and while he was there he shot a ton of video featuring the various classes that were...
Take A Detailed Tour Of The Challenger II Streamliner With Danny Thompson – This Thing Is A Marvel Of Packaging And Engineering
Bonneville is just over a month away now and we’re gearing up for our most comprehensive Speed Week coverage ever from the salt. This year marks the 100th birthday of racing on the Bonneville...
