Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Land Speed Races, LAND SPEED RACES
More Bonneville Speed Week Photos From The Salt! Check Out What All We Found!
Here we go again. We told you we’d have more photos coming and we weren’t kidding. In fact, we have even more coming as we’ll be bombarding you with them throughout the week from this...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Speed, Sun, Salt, and The Many Ways To Go Fast
(Photos by the author) – As duty called me away from the Salt on Wednesday morning, Chad stood fast, documenting the action over the course of the day. It has been said that time heals all...
This Ford Model T Had The Neatest Engine We Saw At Bonneville – Superchaged, Cragar OHV Head, Amazing!
There’s lots of stuff that stops us in our tracks at Bonneville, LOTS but even among the jaw droppers there’s a hierarchy. As Chad and I were cruising the pits on a quiet Monday we...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: More Photos From The Challenging Salt That’s Proving Impossible To Conquer
(Photos by the Author) – The guts and temerity of land speed racers have been tested to the maximum possible level at Speed Week 2019. Wet, sopping salt has hampered the efforts of even the...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: A Quick Tuesday Afternoon Peek Into The Pits
(Photos by the author) – If things are going according to plan at this moment, cars are streaking down the Bonneville Salt Flats as part of the long delayed start of Speed Week 2019. Officials...
More Photos From Bonneville! Speed Week 2019 Is In Full Effect And We’re Shooting All The Cars!
Here we go again. We told you we’d have more photos up today and we weren’t kidding. In fact, we’ll have even more photos going in later tonight and we’ll be bombarding you...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Idle Engines On The Bonneville Salt Flats
(Photos by the author) – An interesting day on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday as Chad and I strolled the pits and chatted with racers who are about ready to chew through a leather belt...
Our Bonneville Speed Week Coverage Starts Right Here With Photos From The Pits
Torrential rains on Thursday night delayed the start of the 71st running of Bonneville Speed Week as flooded pits, tracks, and return roads meant a dry out was in order. After assessing the...
Bonneville Video: Mechanical Music Off Of The Push Truck And Into Infinity
While it is true that big speed is the main draw at Bonneville, gearheads the world over will agree that the sound of a hot rod at full tilt for miles on end is intoxicating. This video gives a great...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Chapter 7: The Aftermath – What Became Of The Major Players From The First Speed Trials On The Salt
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – For the principals involved in the production of the 1914 Salduro trials, life was never quite the...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: How The Heck Does The Record Setting Procedure Work, Anyway?
It is the dream of many hot rodders to attend Speed Week at Bonneville. It is the dream of a smaller group to actually drive something down the salt in anger, and it is the dream of an even smaller...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Alphabet Soup – What Do All Those Class Designation Letters Mean, Anyway?!
(Editor’s note: Starting this coming weekend, BangShift’s coverage of SpeedWeek 2019 will commence! As we are always gathering new readers we run this story about how to decipher...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro: Chapter Six – One Run by the Blitzen Benz Changes the Course of History for the Salt Beds of Salduro
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – On Wednesday, August 12, 1914, the express train from Salt Lake City was met at 12:45 PM by three drivers...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Chapter 5: Ernie Moross, Bill Rishel, Teddy Tetzlaff and the Blitzen Benz II arrive on the Salt Beds of Salduro
(By Bret Kepner: SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – Throughout the weekend of August 8-9, 1914, William D. “Big Bill” Rishel had been hard at work...