Category Archive: 1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, BangShift 1320
Car Feature: The Big Iron 1956 Chevy Gasser Is About As BangShift Approved As They Come – Killer!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Some of us who long for the more-simple, older days of hot-rodding wonder if younger generations ‘get it’. Ryan Pope is a 28-year-old from Southern...
BangShift Exclusive: Here Are The Specifics On The EFI NHRA Pro Stock Will Be Running In 2016
Yesterday it was announced that Holley would be the sole provider of EFI equipment to the NHRA pro stock world for 2016. Immediately we had questions on the specific components that teams would be...
Feature Car: Paul Stefansky’s “Super Stang” Mustang Funny Car
Normally, when you walk around inside the oval track at Beech Bend during the Holley Hot Rod Reunion, you will see pits set up, vendor trucks set up, and a group of historic race cars around the...
Rapid Fire: A Former Sand Dragger Go 8s At The Strip And Sniff 200 On The Salt With a Poncho ‘Banger!
Roger Manson’s Rapid Fire is so BangShift approved we can hardly stand it. This car started life as a sand dragger, was bought by Roger who then put it on the drag strip, got it to go 8.70s...
Feature: The Bannister Dragster, A 1950s Rail That Oozes Killer Hot Rod History
(Words and Photos by Mike Bradford) – Before the days of mega speed shops, CNC machines and computers, if you wanted to build a fast car, the main source for goodies would be a local...
Lincoln Of Doom: Bob Underwood’s Twin Turbo Coyote 1998 Mark VIII Is An All Ford 9-second Killer That Shined At TX2K15
Like most things in hot rodding, Bobby Underwood’s Lincoln did not fall from the sky fully built one day and start ripping off 9-second elapsed times at the drag strip. The car that we ran...
Update: 1949 Cadillac Is The Standard Of The World (When It Comes To Sleepers) – A Total Q-Ship From Hell! (And Now It Is For Sale)
When Jon Sandahl called me up and said, “Hey, you should probably come over here and take a look at this thing,” in reference to a 1949 Cadillac coupe, I was a little confused but hey,...
2015 Grand National Roadster Show AMBR Contender: Mike Gordon’s Psycho 1932 Ford Roadster
If the 2015 AMBR award were going to be given off the basis of horsepower alone, Mike Gordon’s Psycho 1932 Ford would be the clear winner. The car is powered by a twin turbocharged 428ci...
2015 Grand National Roadster Show AMBR Contender: The Hirsh 1927 Ford Roadster
Chopit Kustoms is the shop behind the construction of the Hirsh 1927 Ford Roadster. This is another car that definitely followed the idea that less is more sometimes. The clean lines, the beautiful...
2015 Grand National Roadster Show AMBR Contender: Larry and Sue Christensen’s Rivet Roadster
The 2015 Grand National Roadtser Show is in full swing and we snuck in early this morning to check out all that there was to see. Because the Grand National Roadtser Show is the place where one of...
2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest
I had forgotten about this ragged-out Chevy 1500 W/T from LS Fest this summer. Peeling paint, bashed-in bed, forgettable aftermarket wheels and no exhaust note to speak of, it looked like just about...
Just Add Salt: This 1931 Model A May Live In Massachusetts But It Has The True Spirit Of An Ancient Salt Running Hot Rod
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Sometimes simplicity can be jaw-droppingly cool and that is the case with this 1931 Ford Model A (with ’32 grill shell) owned by Jesse Treveloni of...
John Robison’s Cummins Diesel Altered Shows That Innovation Is Long From Dead In Drag Racing – NHRA Diesel Showdown In Works?
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – You’ve heard the cat calls because we sure have. People yelling from on high that there’s no innovation left in drag racing and that the sport is become...
PRI 2014: The Boss Bird 1971 Pontiac Trans-Am Funny Car. 3,000hp Nitro Pontiac Engine, Beswick History, And A Cloyes Double Roller Timing Chain?!
We’re weird. We know that we’re weird and we kind of embrace that fact. If you have been around here for very long you know that. The guys in the Cloyes Performance booth have what could...