eBay Find: This Early 1950s Drag Car Made From A 1948 Crosley Is Absolutely Awesome – Time Capsule!
Canadian BangShifter Dave Pelissier gets full credit for finding and sending us this startlingly cool 1948 Crosley that was made into a drag race car in the early 1950s. The top of the car was lopped...
Retro Gallery: A Look At The Incredible 2013 March Meet Funny Car Field….Bigger This Year? Maybe
Perhaps the single greatest thing that attending the March Meet affords you is the opportunity to scoff at a drag racing old timer bragging on the old days about seeing 32-funny cars at old timey...
Retro Gallery: A Collection Of Wheels Up, Burnout, And Action Photos From The 2013 March Meet — T-Minus One Week!
That’s right, kids! In less than one week BangShift will be LIVE and streaming the action from the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway as we have for several years thanks to the...
Quick Tech: How MSD’s TurboLuie Ran 8.22 At 169 In His Street Driven Mustang! And There’s More In It!
When Erik and the gang at MSD sent me the link to video of Luis Gutierrez’s 8.22 at 169 mph pass in his street driven Fox Body Mustang, I was impressed. Like a lot of good drag radial cars,...
DeJoria, Brown, and Johnson Win NHRA Wallys In Phoenix. Plus We Have All The Sportsman Stuff!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne. Photos by Bob Snyder, Jeff Burghardt, and Alexis DeJoria Racing) Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory Sunday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals...
Photos: Brian’s Top 20 Favorite Cars From The 2013 March Meet
(Being that we are one week and one day away from the beginning of the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway, we’re going to start getting you pumped up by running some of last...
Electric Swamp Rat 37 Nearing Race Trim – Garlits And Team Shooting For First 200mph Electric Quarter Mile
We’re not usually hot on electric cars as they just aren’t really our jam around here, but one that Don Garlits is involved with, required the use of Bad Hadman to build its chassis, and...
Gallery: Early Season Drag Action From Thunder Valley Raceway Park In Noble, Oklahoma!
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – So, what’s a drag starved gear head to do when it’s still winter time? Well, as most of you know Oklahoma weather has had multiple personality issues...
Watch This Real Lambo With LS1 Power From Australia Dip Into The 9s!
The first thing we did after seeing this 9-second run made by the LS1 powered Lambo Jalpa in the video below was look up what the heck a Lamborghini Jalpa was. Honestly had no idea. It looked like a...
Watch Kevin Mullins 4.11 Run On 315 Drag Radials! 4,000hp Twin Turbo Hemi!
First off WARNING – THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE AND SWEARING AT THE END OF THIS VIDEO — IF THIS IS A PROBLEM, STOP IT IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU WATCH THE RUN. This is the most incredible...
Near Miss Video: Greatest Save Ever or Luckiest Guy Ever?
The old saw goes, “Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good,” and in the case of the guy driving this wild Camaro drag car we couldn’t agree more. We have never seen a car on a...
WINNING: A 1960s Cragar Blower Off An Early Top Fuel Car Has Blown Life Into This Willys Truck
(Words: Brad Klaassen – Photos: Klaassen and Shane Carson, Mar-Car Photo Collection)- It’s no secret drag racers have been reusing performance parts for decades. One man’s trash is...
Lights Out 5, “The Baddest Small Tire Drag Race In The World”, Is LIVE NOW!
That’s right folks, if you like small tire drag racing, and all the fun and excitement that comes with crazy on the bumper drag radial action, you are not going to want to miss Lights Out 5 at...
