Category Archive: Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, RACING & ACTION, Videos
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...
Action Photo Coverage: Sportsman Racing At The 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – While professional drag racing’s categories have been mechanically whittled down to the most favorable combinations that can win races, NHRA sportsman racing...
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...
Action Photos: 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals – Pro Class Photo Coverage
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – When old timer drag racing veterans talk about a race that just happened in pretty reverential terms you know it was a special deal. It’s one of those races...
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...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro: Chapter Four: “Big Bill” Rishel, William Randolph Hearst, the Lincoln Highway and a place named Salduro
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – Born in Pennsylvania, William D. “Big Bill” Rishel became one of the west’s top bicycle racers...
Street Car Super Nationals 6 Featuring Mid-West Pro Mod Series In St. Louis – LIVE Coverage Continues Friday!
It will be hot, it will be humid, and it will be wild. Mel Roth’s Street Car Super Nationals returns to World Wide Technologies Raceway in Madison, Illinois for a sixth throwdown and the...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Chapter 3: Barney Oldfield is Banned From Auto Racing While Ernie Moross Creates New Stars and New Records
(By Bret Kepner -SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – Within sixty days of his resignation from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 9, 1910, renowned...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Part 2: The Opening of the Speedway, The Gold Brick Scandal and the Debut of the Benz
(By Bret Kepner) – Ernie Moross continued to supervise his contracted racers even while in the employ of the new Indianapolis Motor Parkway and secured a new deal with Benz Motor Cars, (then a...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro: The History Of The First Speed Trials At Bonneville
(By Bret Kepner – SCTA Official and member of the Society Of Land Speed Historians) – (Editor’s note: We’re going to run there entire series of the Salt Beds of Salduro...
