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2019 Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car Shakedown Photo Coverage: History Roared To Life At GALOT Motorsports Park
Oct 22, 2019Brian Lohnes4
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Drag strips are interesting because they all seem to gain identity from the events that they are best known for holding. A place that runs a lot of small tire...
2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals Action Photos: The NHRA Season Is Almost Over, The Action Is Still Red Hot!
Oct 22, 2019Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals ran into overtime. Driving rains on Sunday forced all the professional categories to be contested on Monday. NHRA officials ran all...
Ratty Muscle Cars Presents Mopar Vs. Brand-X Gallery: Rain, Rain, Go Away…
Oct 22, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
We hoped that the weather pattern that was splitting Alabama right at the middle would simply drift off to the east, because as the morning carried on, things did not look good. We’d get...
Ratty Muscle Cars Presents Mopar Vs. Brand-X Gallery: Stuff The Show, We Want The Go!
Oct 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
I thrashed, I wrenched, I cussed the damn thing out left, right and center, and I can officially say that the Imperial is functional enough to be driven. That’s the good thing. The bad? It just...
2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals Pro Mod Action Photos: A Wild, Controversial, and Fast Weekend!
Oct 16, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on 2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals Pro Mod Action Photos: A Wild, Controversial, and Fast Weekend!
(Photos by David Whealon) – As you know by now, Stevie Fast Jackson and the Bahrain 1 crew took home not only the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA pro mod championship but they also won the race,...
NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Shaking The Leaves Off Of The Trees
Oct 16, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Sunny, cool, and racing the likes of which we go nuts for…what could have been better? The NDRL Fall Classic brought out the cool iron in numerous classes, including Pro Comp, Pro Gas,...
NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Winding The Season Down Properly
Oct 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Winding The Season Down Properly
If Friday’s qualifying runs of the NDRL had been set in the perfect early Fall scene of gloomy, gray and with the threat of rain, then Saturday was the ideal Fall day: warm enough to be nice,...
NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Sunshine And Sweet Rides
Oct 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Sunshine And Sweet Rides
If Friday’s qualifying runs of the NDRL had been set in the perfect early Fall scene of gloomy, gray and with the threat of rain, then Saturday was the ideal Fall day: warm enough to be nice,...
NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Mellowing Out With The Classics
Oct 13, 2019Bryan McTaggart5
It’s been a busy year for BangShift. We’ve been bouncing around the country covering shows, attending races, moving in Chad’s case, and we still have a ways to go. We get a quick...
Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: Is This The End?!
Oct 13, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: Is This The End?!
Yep, we’ve come to the end of our coverage from Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and the NMRA’s World Finals event at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We went into the...
NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Classic Action As The Leaves Fall In Kentucky
Oct 12, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
It seems that the autumn season is making up for some lost time here in Western Kentucky. We’ve been enjoying a prolonged summer-like feeling right up until yesterday morning, when the clouds...
Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: The 3S Challenge
Oct 11, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: The 3S Challenge
Somehow, we all survived the fun of Saturday. A lot of the show cars were put up, a lot of the drag cars were put on the trailer, and all we had to to was finish out the 3S challenge in the circle...
2019 Kneeland Concours D’elegance Photo Coverage: The Amazing Cavalcade Of Automotive History Continues
Oct 10, 2019Brian Lohnes4
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The photos are not properly ordered or grouped per their respective class at the Concours. I wondered around trying get photos of cars people weren’t...
Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: The Burnout Contest
Oct 10, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: The Burnout Contest
After the cones were picked up and right about the time the sun started to make it’s final descent to the horizon, the delinquents started to appear. With the promise of no repercussions for...