Category Archive: Barnstormin'
Barnstormin’: Wooden Blocks and A Diecast Camaro
Those were the two major items that my son Tom asked “Santa” for this Christmas. We…I mean he, happily filled that request and he’s been building garages, bridges, workshops,...
Barnstormin’: How The Word “Value” Turned Into A Swear At My House
It happened innocently enough. My six year old son Tom loves to watch the show Overhaulin’ so we were tuned in to one of the new episodes of the recently revived series. I like the show in...
Barnstormin’: Drag Week Scrambled My Brain and Other Memories From A Great Week On The Road
Oh what a difference eight years makes. Drag Week has certainly come a long way from the quaint little get together it was in 2005 when less than 40 cars pulled out of the now dead Kansas City...
The Sound and the Fury: A Day With Corvette Racing at the American LeMans Series
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It was all too fitting to be at Connecticut’s beautiful Lime Rock Park road racing facility on Friday July 6th to see the factory Corvette Racing team practice...
Milestone: We Published Our 6,000th Blog Item This Morning – Who’d a Thunk?!
BangShift passed kind of a neat milestone this morning. It came quietly enough and like when the odometer of your car rolls past 100,000 miles no balloons fell from the ceiling, no indoor...
Barnstormin’ – Why Bowling Green Serves As My Nitro Fueled Tent Revival Every Year
The 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky was another interesting endevour for Chad and I. The event itself was bad ass to levels previously...
Barnstormin’:The Little Drag Strip That Could, Did…After Almost 50 Years
It will go down as the coolest gearhead non sequitur I have ever seen. Walking up to the old Boston city hall building, deep in the heart of downtown and seeing Bob Tasca III’s nitro funny car...