Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Videos
Mike Crow Wins Small Block Naturally Aspirated Class at Drag Week; See the Video
Would you believe a naturally aspirated small-block car could drive 1,200 miles to five drag strips in five days and run 10.50s and .60s every day? It’s also a stick car. The winner of Small...
Video: Jeff Lutz’s Turbo 1957 Chevy Running 7.81 at 180 mph at Drag Week
As we sadly know, the killer suede-black 1957 of Jeff Lutz fell out of Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 yesterday, Wednesday, September 17. However, it’s not like the Unlimited class racer did not put on...
Thursday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com, Plus Video of the 9.50 Pass
“If we can make the drive I think we can pull off another 9.50 and put the win away.” That’s a confident Jay Brown as he wraps his Thursday, Day 4 diary of his adventures at Hot Rod...
Video: Fun With Backfires
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re big fans of dumb fun around here. The guys in this video are as well. They have a 1995 Caprice that is backfiring through the exhaust. The guys...
Video: Jay Brown’s 1964 SOHC Galaxie Running 9.53 at 140 MPH During Drag Week
Jay Brown is the racer who we have been following on Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 through his diaries at FordFE.com. As of Tuesday, he was the leader in the Modified Naturally Aspirated class with a best...
Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...
Video: 7-Second Pro Street Firebird at Drag Week 2009
Here’s a video of Eric Yost in his Pro Street Power Adder third gen Pontiac Firebird at Martin, Michigan, on the second day of Drag Week 2009. This pass shows an 8.29, but this car ran 8.11 on...
Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ
This Jeep is in Denmark…we think. Where ever it is, we want it. V8 powered CJ Jeeps have a certain air of coolness about them, but one packing a GM Performance Parts ZZ572 crate motor with...
Video: Monday Racing at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009
Our last installment of coverage for Monday’s first day of competition at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 comes from BangShift.com forum member seanm, who put together a video of racing that includes...
First Videos from Drag Week 2009; Tires Strapped to the Roof!
Captain Insano hits the road! This video comes from Hot Rod Drag Week racer Glen Sheeley in the Daily Driver class. There’s some good video of him racing his 11.80-second 2006 Corvette, but...
Carnage Video: Honda Civic Does Burnout, Bursts into Flames
Who would have thought that tying your Honda Civic to a concrete block and roasting the tires off the front of it would result in a pyrotechnic display? These guys didn’t. The little Honda...
Hack Job General Lee: So Close We Can Almost Taste It, With Video!
The Hack Job General Lee, the well publicized Charger project from Hell, is finally near completion and it may well be the the greatest case of making automotive chicken salad out of chicken...