Event Gallery: The SCTA’s May El Mirage Meet – Big Speeds On The Famous Dry Lake
This weekend, the first SCTA land speed meet of the 2014 season is underway on the El Mirage dry lake in California. While we don’t have results quite yet, we do have some fantastic photos...
Watch Jack Beckman Suffer A Violent Funny Car Explosion In Atlanta – It Was An Incredible Day!
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside….we have more funny car violent from Atlanta! Saturday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals was one of the most insanely nuts...
Watch Tim Wilkerson Experience An Insane Funny Car Explosion At The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals
If you have ever wondered what would happen if the camshaft broke in an 10,000hp nitro burning funny car engine, Tim Wilkerson provided the answer at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern...
REPLAY: BangShift’s LIVE Streaming Coverage From The Throwdown In T-Town
WE’RE LIVE WITH SATURDAY ACTION NOW!!! TUNE IN! If you like Outlaw 10.5, 235 Drag Radial, and 275 Drag Radial racing you are going to love this event as well because we have plenty of action...
This Turbo, Big Block Chrysler, Four Door, 1968 Valiant Is Some Work And Creative Exhaust Plumbing Away From Sleeper Stardom
Wanna get famous? Pay the $2500 asking price for this 1968 Valiant, finish it and then take YouTube videos on the race track running ridiculous elapsed times and laugh your way to internet hero...
Drag Video: Fires, Wrecks, and Near Misses From The Australian National Drag Racing Association Race At Sydney Dragway
Judging by the angle of the car in the lead photo above, this isn’t going to end well for him. To be brutally honest, half of the cars in this video had a decent run while the other half get...
Burnout Video: Watch Kurt Johnson Break In A Set Of Slicks In A Naked Chassis Former Pro Stocker
One of the things that few people understand about the world of professional drag racing and pro stock specifically is that the work during racing season is on a 24/7 cycle. This isn’t a deal...
Craigslist Find: The Most Unintentionally Comedic Listing Ever (Not Even Including the 1973 MG Rat Rod)
Powermaster’s Brady Basner has the hot hand on Craigslist. I don’t know how he does it but the man is able to find gems left, right, and center each week on the world’s biggest yard...
Top Fuel Motorcycle Racing Legend Russ Collins Has Died: Multi-Engine Nitro Bikes, World Record Setter, Innovator
Russ Collins, the great Top Fuel Motorcycle racer, sometimes Top Fuel Dragster racer and survivor of a couple horrendous wrecks during his long and storied career, has died. Collins was a great...
Watch Craig Breedlove Tell His Story Of 1960s Land Speed Heroism In This Great Video – Great Emotion And Tons Of Old Footage
In many ways, Craig Breedlove was the ultimate California hot rod kid of his era. Who else was able to dream up and actually see through a futuristic looking, thrust driven monster of a car that was...
BangShift Exclusive: Support Your Local Sign Painter – The Greatest Documentation Of Hand Lettering And Striping A Funny Car Ever!
(Words and video by Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian) – A little over a month ago, I received a text message stating that several mutual friendswere going to collaborate on a paint scheme for a 1972 Vega...
Nitro Video: A Spectacular Look Inside The Funny Car Final At The Nightfire Nationals By Nitro America
It has been a while since we’ve highlighted some of Les Mayhew’s killer video work here on the front page of BangShift and since we noticed that he recently dropped some new content onto...
This 2,500hp Street Rod Would Blow The Doors Off Of The Leno Merlin Powered Bentley – Urge Overkill Here!
This is a 2,500hp street rod or it is as least claimed to be a 2,500hp street rod by the guy looking to sell it for $200,000 on eBay. The car is a 1932 Ford sedan delivery body that is part tractor...
Close Call Video: Watch Things Get Weird On The Top End Of The Drag Strip At High Speed
I have certainly seen and called my fair share of top end weirdness on the drag strip but all of it has been witnessed from the comfy confines of the timing tower at whatever strip it was at. While...
