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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Land Speed Races, LAND SPEED RACES

Event Coverage: More Than 100 Photos Of SCTA Racing At El Mirage, Where Dirt Is King…

Zane McNary shot a bunch of great photos from the dirt at El Mirage this past Sunday, after shooting drag racing photos for us on Friday and Saturday from the California Hot Rod Reuninon. Since he...

Gallery: Bonus Photos From Bonneville Speed Week 2012 – Race Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, and More!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – This year’s running of Bonneville Speed Week was a smashing success with tons of racers hitting the sale, lots of new records, and lots of new cars being...

Incredible Photos From Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout Courtesy Of Zane McNary

Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout has been going on since 2006 when Mike and Mikey Cook decided that there needed to be an event on the salt that catered to the guys that wanted to go really...

Event Coverage: 13th Annual Syracuse Nationals Car Show Sets New Record… 7769 Cars And Over 87,000 People

Billed as the largest automotive event on the right coast, the 2012 Syracuse Nationals Car Show broke all previous records this year. With 7769 cars in attendance, and over 87,000 spectators, its one...

Bonneville Speed Week Day Five: Big Records, A 21 Year Spin-Free Streak Is Broken, and More!

Our coverage of day 5 of the 2012 Bonneville Speed Week wouldn’t be complete without a little ribbing, more photos, and records dropping like flies. We’ve got 80 photos for you to check...

Flying Streamliners, Spinning Roadsters, and More at Bonneville Speed Week 2012

Holy Crap! Today was nuts. Seriously nuts. By shear dumb luck and determination we happened to be at the perfect spot to catch some real pucker factor “stuff” going down at the top end of...

Bonneville Speed Week 2012 Day Four: More Records, Sicilio Runs 208, and We Fix Stuff

Wow!!! We have had a hell of a day here on the salt for day four of Bonneville Speed Week 2012. We slept very little again last night, and then overslept slightly this morning, but still made it out...

Bonneville Speed Week Coverage: We’ve Dried Out And Are Hauling Ass!

Bonneville RULES! IT RULES! Seriously, it rules and you need to be out here with us. All the cool kids are doing it, and this is one time not to listen to your mother about peer pressure. The salts...

Bonneville Speed Week Coverage: It’s Damp, But Fast, And We Have More Photos!

With rain showers blowing through the Bonneville Salt Flats on Friday night, it made for a soupy morning on parts of Long Course One, and also on parts of the return and access roads, but that...

Bonneville Speed Week 2012 Starts NOW!!! Friday Nugget Car Show Photos. Racing Photos Tomorrow.

Bonneville Speed Week 2012 officially starts in a few hours! We’ve got stories galore that we are following, including our buddy Lee Sicilio’s quest for a 300 mph record in his just...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge…302 Photos from the ECTA Ohio Mile

The 2012 HOT ROD Magazine Top Speed Challenge was this weekend, and BangShifter Michael Black was on site shooting photos of door slammers, lakesters, belly tanks, roadsters and more and we’ve...

Update: 2011 Bonneville Galleries, the Tuesday Two Banger, and Jimmy Shine

Chad hit the salt running on Monday zapping photos and glad handing with hot rodders and gearheads he’d not seen since least year’s running of Speed Week. Tuesday he helped make a 2...

Bitchin’ Event Gallery: ORSA Speed Weekend – Land Speed Racing on Ice From Sweden!

This is one of the neater galleries we’ve posted in a while! The photos come directly from Sweden, courtesy of BangShifter Jobergg and they were taken at ORSA Speed Weekend, a huge land speed...

Event Coverage Re-Run: SCTA El Mirage July 2010

It’s LSR season and we’re gearing up for full coverage of east coast speed at Loring, Maine in a couple of weeks. Before we head up into the wilds of northern Main, we’ll share...