Category Archive: BangShift News
COPO Camaro #3 Build: Behind The Scenes Of A Real Copo Camaro Build!
We want a new COPO Camaro so bad we can taste it, and although we have no delusions that we’ll be one of the first media to make a pass in one, we can say that we will be the quickest....
Jiffy-tite Fittings Video and Fitting Counting Contest. So Easy Even A BangShifter Can Do It!
We were cruising the Jiffy-tite Facebook page and saw two cool things we had to share. The first is a great video featuring the infamous Jon Dibartolomeo, from Drag Racing Action Magazine, talking...
Show Gallery: The 2012 Ring Reckers Hot Rod Club Car Show
(Photos by Jay Spinella) – The Ring Reckers Car Club of Amesbury, Massachusetts was formed in 1955 at the height of the burgeoning hot rod craze that was sweeping America. The club was around...
Drag Gallery: The 25th Annual Goodguys Pacific Northwest Nationals
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – For 25 years the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association has been holding their annual Pacific Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Washington state and this...
Video: Mark Stielow’s Red Devil 1969 Pro Touring Camaro Takes On a New ZL1 at Gingerman Raceway – Which One Wins?
Mark Stielow is one of the Pro Touring world’s true heroes. A GM engineer who was one of the earliest adapters of modern suspension technology into classic American iron, his ever more bad ass...
BangShifter Sean Fling Wins The Ridetech Race Entry Giveaway! Sandhills Here He Comes!
We are proud to announce that BangShifter Sean Fling, and his wife Tara, won the Ridetech Race Entry Giveaway for the Sandhills Open Road Challenge and will be kickin’ it BangShift style in...
Caption this Photo: Nightmare on the Strip!
As much as we like to look back on old school drag racing as a period where everything was grand and nothing was wrong, this photo helps to shine the light of reality on the era a little. We do not...
The Top 11: Worst Classic Car Name Revivals
(By Matt Cramer) – Few automakers can deliver a string of unbroken hits, but fewer still can retire a nameplate after one generation and resist the urge to dust off the names of some of their...
Drag Gallery: The Massive 2012 AMC Day at Mason-Dixon Dragway – AMC Hotness Abounds!
(Photos by John Button and Victor Santiago) – This is a well timed gallery because I have had AMCs on the brain lately. Having been at the strip announcing the last couple of weekend, I have...
“Broadway” Bob Metzler – Drag Racing Legend, Hall of Famer, and American Original – Dead at 83
Another giant in the world of drag racing has left this mortal coil. “Broadway” Bob Metzler the man who opened Great Lakes Dragaway in 1955 and built it into one of the most famed and...
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Pro 2 Videos: Watch Round 7 Of The 2012 Season Sunday At 1pm EST On CBS
If you are like us, then trucks driving fast on dirt, sometimes on 4 wheels, usually on at least two, flying through the air, landing on top of each other, and sometimes flipping over, is really...
Busted: Seven Arrested in Australia For Stealing 140 LS Engines and 175 Transmissions From Holden Plant
A theft ring in Australia has been discovered and shut down by police, but only after they managed to steal 140 Holden V8 engines (LS motors) and 175 of the corresponding transmissions. According to...
Wreckage Video: Another Angle of the Massive Buick Wheelie and Crash
Earlier this week we showed you a couple angles of Jeff Wild’s massive wheelstand and crash at Cedar Falls Raceway last weekend. Wild and a couple of pals were making exhibition passes a la...
Camaros Come To Nascar: Chevy Joins Ford and Mopar In Roundtrack!
We’ve always thought that Mustangs and Challengers running in the NASCAR Nationwide Series was weird. I mean these are pony cars after all. But since Ford and Mopar got their pony cars into the...