Action Gallery: The Beaver Springs FE Race And Reunion! Full Info On the 2014 Event HERE!
BELOW YOU’LL FIND A LINK TO THE 2013 PHOTOS BUT BEFORE YOU HIT THAT — CLICK HERE FOR THE 2014 EVENT INFO! Legends Dick Brannan and Hubert Platt will be at the event and last...
BangShift Exclusive: The Auto Club Fontana Pro Mod Noise Test – We Were There – Did They Pass? (Gallery)
(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – As we get down to the first NHRA Street Legal event this weekend at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Wednesday’s test session to determine which racecars...
Gasser Video: Take A Video Tour Of A Homebuilt And Very Cool 1955 Chevy Gasser Known As “Bad Juju”
The guys at Holley shot a TON of great video shorts at the 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, so many that they are still rolling our fresh material and this one just caught...
We Have Photos From The Auto Club Dragway In Fontana Grand Reopening Party: Racing Starts This Weekend!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne and Chad Reynolds, Photos by Darr Hawthorne) It’s not often that we can report of the resurrection of a drag strip, especially in Southern California where track after...
Mad Science! A Drag Racer Sliced And Diced A Pair Of LS Heads, Stuck Them Together And Mounted Them On A Ford Inline Six
Now this is really something! A short while back, a thread popped up in the BangShift forums about a racer who had taken a pair of cathedral port LS Chevy cylinder heads, shortened them by one hole a...
Ford Fans Rejoice! A Blown Coyote Super Stocker To Kill ‘Em All Is Being Built In Michigan Right Now!
(By Bret Kepner) – One year ago, Watson Racing teamed with veteran Chris Holbrook to produce the quickest and fastest production car in drag racing history. In the team’s first event,...
Open House At Auto Club Dragway Fontana TOMORROW! No Racing But Lots Of Fun Planned
Drag racing’s feel good story of the winter has been the progress at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, California to complete a sound wall project and re-open as the only quarter mile strip in the...
The 2014 March Meet Is Coming – We’re Planning On Being There And YOU Should Be, Too!
March means a couple of things here at BangShift but most importantly it means that the greatest nostalgia drag race in the world, the Bakersfield March Meet will be happening and 2014 is no...
2014 NHRA Winternationals: Sportsman Gallery – Stockers Through Injected Fuel, They’re Here!
(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – We know you wanted to see more sportsman action photos from the 2014 NHRA Winternationals, so here they are! Shooters Mike and Jeff Burghardt took these...
A Guy Is Asking $205,000 For This Gasser On eBay And We Think It Actually May Be Worth It — UPDATED WITH PERIOD PHOTO!
Why would a 1933 Willys gasser possibly be worth a couple hundred grand when we have no proof of who owned it, no proof that it was actually raced, and just some crusty photos of the thing jammed...
2014 Winternationals Gallery: People and Pits Photos From The 2014 NHRA Winternationals
(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – While the action at the drag races is always captured on the track, the story of any drag race is written in the pits. Like a great band that gains fame because of...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Racing Photos From The Golden Age Of Action At Sanford, Maine
(Photos from Sy Sidebotham Collection Via Bruce Wheeler) – (Editor’s note: Yesterday we ran an old drag racing movie from Sanford, Maine that was shot in the late 1950s. After seeing...
2014 NHRA Winternationals – Photos From The Explosive Opening Weekend Of The 2014 NHRA Season
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – Love him or hate him, 16-time nitro funny car Champion John Force isn’t going anywhere, except down the dragstrip, 1,000...
Drag Week 2014: All The Dates, All The Tracks, All The Info You Want And Need – Photos From The Original 2005 Event HERE!
So the news broke on Saturday about what race tracks and what dates that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014 would be happening at and on. I happened to be in the car when that news came out traveling...
