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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Drag Races

Fun In The Sun Photos From NHRA’s Prolong Twilight Cruise In Pomona

Every time the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum hosts their Prolong Twilight Cruise the place is packed. And as one guy commented to me, there is nothing “twilight” about it. People...

2015 Gasser Reunion and Nostalgia Drags Coverage – Great Cars And Action From Thompson

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – For more than a decade now, nostalgia drag racing and gasser fans have flocked to Thompson, Ohio for the gasser reunion each Spring. This year was no different and we...

Gasser Reunion Coverage! Pit Shots From The Gathering Of Cool Gassers and Vintage Drag Racing Iron In Ohio

(Photos by Mike Brooks/Gasoline Images) – 13 years ago my wife and I drove from Massachusetts to attend the gasser reunion at Thompson Raceway Park in Thompson, Ohio a couple days after we...

The Dallas- Ft. Worth Truck Shootout Was Hot And Heavy And Not Just The Weather – Coverage Here

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – You may be thinking to yourself, “Wait, I already looked at photos Wickam shot at a truck drag race shootout?!” The answer is that you are technically...

Lancaster Dragway Pro Mod Shootout Action – Sportsman and Crazed Pro Mod Photos

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – It was a good old fashioned drag strip brawl at Lancaster Dragway’s pro mod shootout a short while back. Held on a weekday night, the place was filled, there...

Event Coverage: Our First Round Of Photos From The TS Performance Outlaw Diesel Drags At Beech Bend!

If there is one event to really kick off the beginning of summer at Beech Bend, it’s TS Performance’s Outlaw Diesel Drags at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Trucks come...

Aeros and Autos 2015 Coverage: Our Last Looks At A Variety Of Cars At Speed On The Half Mile

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Here’s our final look at the 2015 Aeros and Autos gathering in Texas. This event combined an air show with a car show and a standing half mile land speed...

Outlaw Gassers And Local Heroes Headline Hugh Huffman Memorial At New London Dragway – Photo Coverage

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – New London Dragway is one of the neatest strips I have ever visited and I stopped there off-season with my family last winter. It is nice to see the place as a...

Gasser Action Coverage: Nostalgia AA/Gassers At Their Finest In New London, Virginia – Old Track And Old School Cars

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The Nostalgia AA/Gasser group was back at New London on Sunday of Memorial Day week end. It was a great event with a lot of cars from out of town. In...

Aeros and Autos Half Mile Shootout Photos From Texas – Muscle, Exotics, Trucks!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – For the last seven years speed freaks have showed up to show off and speed up down the runway at Ellington Airport in Texas. This year we were there. Wickam had a...

Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods Invade Virginia – Wheels Up And Tire Smoking ‘Slammer Action Here

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The Extreme Outlaw Pro Modified  was back at VMP in Dinwiddie for it’s second event of the year during the Super Chevy event on May 16-17. A total...

2015 FE Race and Reunion: Our Last Blast Of Killer Photos From The Pits – A Cammer Powered Fairmont?!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Hardcore Ford fans came in droves to Pennsylvania’s Beaver Springs Dragway over the weekend of April 24th & 25th 2015 for the third annual FE Race and...

Event Gallery: 14th Annual Quick Fuel Technology NCMA Muscle Car Nationals At Beech Bend

The recipe looked great for a promising weekend of racing. The track staff at Beech Bend in Bowling Green, Kentucky had busted their backsides getting the track just right, and plenty of NCMA racers...

Event Gallery: The Mopars Of The 14th Annual NMCA Muscle Car Nationals

The NCMA brings out a wide variety of cars, from Pro Mods and late-model stuff to as far back as you can go, but what I find impressive is how many Mopars run the track in bona-fide anger. Wedges,...