Category Archive: BangShift News, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage
Drag Week 2012 – What You Need to Know About Today’s Track – Tulsa Raceway Park
Today is the first official day of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 presented by Gear Vendors. We’re at Tulsa Raceway Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since you’re there and we’re here, we...
Drag Week Gallery and Info: Some Carnage, Some Big Numbers, and Some Awesome Cars
When Drag Week day one 2005 happened, there were about 45 cars on the grounds to attack KCIR on that fateful day in September. Today, more than 200 cars went though the tech inspection process, many...
Event Coverage: Jet-Hot High Performance Coatings Open House and Car Show. Pro Mods, Camaros, and Lambos Oh My!
We have the greatest sponsors ever here at BangShift.com and one of our longtime supporters has been Jet-Hot High Performance Coatings. Not only do they support us, and sell a bitchin product, but...
Event Coverage: Thousands Of Hot Rods At The August Somernites Cruise. It’s A PowerCruise Warmup!
It’s almost time for the Annual Somernites Power Cruise, presented by Holley, in Somerset Kentucky, and as a warmup their August Somernites Cruise was big. Mustangs, Camaros, Cudas and more all...
Sprint Car and Dirt Track Action Gallery: The 2012 Labor Day Classic at the Gator Motorplex – Willis, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Our man in Texas, Charles Wickam is a dirt dog at heart. He loves capturing great pit and action photos of 360 Sprints, Hobby Stocks, Micro Sprints, and Limited...
Event Coverage: Kyle’s Ice Cream Cruise… As In 1320 Video Kyle… This Thing Was Huge
While in Kansas for the Goodguys show, which was mostly rained out, we hung out with several of our Kansas and Missouri based Drag Week buddies in preparation for the big event next week. While...
Event Coverage: Cacklefest Video And Nitro Cars At Ardmore Dragway Hot Rod Reunion
You already saw the crash photo sequence from Ardmore, where Bebo Chandler crashed his Outlaw Pro Mod car, but here are some photos, and video, from the race that will let you in on how cool the...
Event Coverage: Hundreds Of Action Photos From The 2012 Yellow Bullet Nationals
Our boy Joe Grippo was at it again this weekend and got his photo finger all fired up at the Yellow Bullet Nationals. He sent us more than 300 photos and as usual got not only great wheels up on...
Crash Photo Sequence: Out Of Control Nitro Outlaw Pro Mod Impala At Ardmore Dragway
Chris Graves with Max Cackle Photography sent us this cool crash sequence from the recent Hot Rod Reunion at Ardmore Dragway in Oklahama. Aubrey, Texas driver Bebo Chandler took a wild ride in his...
Show Gallery: The 2012 Endless Mountain Antique Truck Show – Hartford, Connecticut
(Photos by Jeremy George) – From the hot rods and muscle cars of California, we zip clear across the country and land at the Hartford fair grounds outside of Hartford, Connecticut. That’s...
Gallery: The OCCA Great Labor Day Cruise – 30th Year of This Killer SoCal Cruise!
(Photos by Daphne) – We’ve got a bunch of great galleries coming for you today so we thought that starting on the west coast in Orange County, California with the Orange County...
Gallery: Baer Brakes Hosts Cars and Coffee – From Trucks to Dragsters, They Were There!
Baer Brakes recently hosted their first cars and coffee event and it was a great success. The event drew come cool hot rods, a few wild off road trucks, and even a front engine dragster that was lit...
Shop Tour: Jet Hot High Performance Coatings Visits Petty Garage… Yeah, Like Richard Petty… The King
When Cheryl, Gordon, and Tim from Jet Hot told us that they got to go tour Petty’s Garage we were pretty jealous. But, they made up for it a bit when they sent us some cool photos of the place...
