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

Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Engines Galore! Some Of The Mills From The Salt!

Bonneville is a place steeped in tradition. For every late-model item filled to the brim with the best and most modern, there’s a Ford Model A rocking a Cadillac mill in the engine bay. For...

Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: More Corner-Carving Race Trucks From Kentucky!

A day filled with pickup trucks that can run rings around a lot of performance cars, out in the beautiful sunshine, with a track day going on in the background just for good measure…the...

Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: Corner Gripping And Ripping

Texas might be the pickup truck haven, but that status was earned decades ago when owning a truck in the wide-open spaces of the Lone Star State made perfect sense. It’s 2020…the pickup...

Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Night Two At The Nugget’s Parking Lot

Being on the salt all day is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re on the freaking salt, man! How can life suck when you’re surrounded by fast machines, gearheads, and one of the...

Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Take A Walk Through The Pits!

Blue sky and the white salt crust combine to make one of the most alien views you’ve ever seen. If you have never been to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, it had better be engraved on your...

Our Bonneville Speed Week 2020 Photos Start Right Here! Pit Photos Of Cars Getting Ready For Tomorrow’s Racing!

It’s Bonneville Speed Week 2020 people!!! As usual, there are folks saying the salt sucks, folks saying the salt is great, and somewhere in the middle is probably the truth, but we’ll...

Event Preview: Street Car Takeover Bowling Green

Drag racing…I’ve missed it. I’ve enjoyed the projects at home, I’ve enjoyed a relaxed travel schedule, and I fully understand why things are the way they are, but man, does it...

Event Preview: 2020 Pro-Touring Truck Shootout at NCM Motorsports Park

When you think of Pro Touring, chances are that you think of first-gen Camaros like Mike DuSold’s, second-gen Camaros like Brian Finch’s, a fleet of late-model Corvettes, and one-off...

Mopar Freaks Rejoice! There Ain’t No Party Like A MoParty! Holley’s Inaugural MoParty Pre-registration now LIVE!

Last year Holley went whole hog when they decided to have the Intergalactic Ford Festival in addition to Holley’s LSFest, but we knew more was coming. This year they’ve added a third...

Pre-registration Now Open for Holley’s 2nd Annual Intergalactic Ford Festival – It’s Like LSFest But More Fordy…

Last year’s Inaugural Intergalactic Ford Festival was INSANE compared to the start of Holley’s LSFest back in the day. When LSFest started there were 40 cars that showed up 10 years ago....

Drag Action Photos: The PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown Brought The Best Of The Best To Virginia To Battle!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a hot, entertaining, and competitive weekend of PDRA drag racing action at Virginia Motorsports Park last weekend when the series fired of the 2020...

Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile

Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...

Wheels Up Fun: Check Out The Flying Front Ends From The Recent NHRA Division 2 Lucas Oil Race At GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) – We’ll never, we we mean never get tired of looking at cars and trucks with the front ends pulled high in the air coming off the starting line. Why?...

2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Bring Out Your Bowties!

Whoops…I almost forgot that there was another gallery of trucks that I shot while roaming the Wilson County Fairgrounds for the Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals! Call me crazy from the...