Category Archive: DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Videos
Video: NHRA UnLeashed…Featuring BangShift Chad
NHRA UnLeashed is Drag Racing like you have never seen from NHRA before. We’re talking Pro Mods, and small tire power adder classes that you usually only find at the outlaw races. Plus, with...
Event Gallery: The Kontinentals 9th Annual Day of the Drag Race – Vintage Rods on the Strip!
Charles Wickam recently attended the 9th annual Kontinentals Car Club Day of the Drag Race held at historic Little River Dragway outside of Temple, Texas. The historic strip, which opened in 1959, is...
240 plus Photos from the 2010 GoodGuys Lonestar Nationals
The 2010 GoodGuys car show season continues this weekend with hot rods, muscle cars, street machines, street rods and trucks cruising the grounds at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The...
Event Gallery: The Vintage Racer Group at New Jersey Motorsports Park
Vintage road racing, like the nostalgia drags, is great. While we’d submit that the competition at the nostalgia drags may be a bit more intense, seeing historic cars from all over the world...
Caption this photo: Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz Share a Word on Drag Week 2010
Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz were the two heaviest weight competitors on Hot Rod Drag Week 2010. They had a great battle all week long, with Larson getting the upper hand at the end of the week, but...
Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Long Beach Motorama
The Long Beach Motorama has been going since 1958 and continues to feature some of the most beautiful and wonderfully executed kustoms in the world. The show is really broken into two parts. There is...
Photo Gallery: 11th Annual Cruisin’ For a Cure, Costa Mesa, California
Cruisin’ for a Cure is an annual charity car show held in Costa Mesa, California. It is a huge affair, drawing more than 3,000 cars, featuring more than 200 vendors and exhibitors, and it even...
Show Gallery: The 20th Annual Bay City Cruisers Car Show
Despite a dreary forecast and threatening skies, intrepid BangShift photo contributor Charles Wickam attended the 20th annual Bay City Cruisers car show deep in the heart of Texas. The show was...
Spirit of Rett Streamliner Goes 416.9 mph to Break 45 yr old Summers Brothers Record
Charlie Nearburg and the rest of the Spirit of Rett landspeed racing team are on cloud nine this morning as they have broken a 45 year old 409 mph record set by the Summers brothers back in 1965. At...
Video of Larry Larson’s Record Breaking 6-second Pass on Drag Week
We aren’t going to mess around teasing you or anything. This is killer video from our boys at 1320video.com who put together great moments from Larry Larson’s Winning Week at Hot Rod...
Final Results from Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010
After an amazing week of on-road antics and on-track action, Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010 is over. There are plenty of competitors who wondered if they would survive the week, let alone...
Update: Larry Larson Wins Hot Rod Drag Week 2010 — Breaks 6-second Barrier!
Larry Larson, at the helm of his awesome twin turbo Chevy Nova, has won Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive. Larson made an easy 7.34 second blast to secure the...
Eric Yost wins Pro Street Power Adder Class at Hot Rod Drag Week 2010
Erio Yost has won the Pro Street Power Adder class at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 present by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive. Yost fought off the demons of a year ago that saw his hopes vanish on...
Place Your Bets! Hot Rod Drag Week Finals Tonight!
The exciting final round of racing for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 happens tonight at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. After a grueling week that saw all manner of breakage, close calls...