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Action Photos: OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Series Visits Road America
Aug 27, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Action Photos: OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Series Visits Road America
Stretch Run for the Ultimate Street Cars OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car series visits Road America By Jim McIlvaine Six of seven regular-season events are now in the books for...
The Pursuit Of Points Part Two: More Photos From OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car At Utah Motorsports Campus
Jul 25, 2021Chad Reynolds2
(Words by Jim McIlvaine) We’ve got more great photos, results, and points from the DriveOPTIMA event at Utah Motorsports Campus below, and if you missed the first gallery yesterday then please...
The Pursuit Of Points: OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Visits Utah Motorsports Campus
Jul 24, 2021Chad Reynolds2
(Words by Jim McIlvaine) We’ve got great photos, results, and points from the DriveOPTIMA event at Utah Motorsports Campus and we’re going to be bringing you another gallery of photos...
50 Years Ago This Weekend The SoCal Drag Scene Was Hitting Its Zenith – The Story Of July 4th Weekend 1971
Jul 04, 2021Brian Lohnes2
(By Bret Kepner) – (Editor’s note: This is the amazing story of the SoCal drag racing scene on July 4th weekend 1971. There’s incredible detail and information here. There is also...
The Numbers Game: Chasing Points In OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Series
Jun 29, 2021Chad Reynolds1
(Words by Jim McIlvaine) It’s been a weird 18 months in a lot of different and unexpected ways and that’s certainly been the case in OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car,...
Best of 2020 – Historic Video: The Race Of Two Words Was Run At Monza in 1957 and 1958 – USA vs The World!
Dec 24, 2020Brian Lohnes1
It is an event that has all but been forgotten by history. An international race so wild that during the first running, most of the teams pulled out of competition after qualifying. An event that...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: We Road-Trip Our Four-Eye Fox Over 450 Miles To Alabama And Back!
Nov 16, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
For the past few years, I’ve promised Austin Griggs, the man behind Ratty Muscle Cars, that I would bring a car to his race that met the qualifications to run. For the past few years,...
Top 11: McTaggart’s 1990s Picks – The Cars From The Horsepower Re-Awakening!
Apr 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
So, I decided to revisit this list to see if my mind had changed in the five years since I first wrote it. Obviously, with only eleven spots, there were going to be some omissions and some contention...
Throwback Speed: Some Of Our Favorite Old Car Websites Still Chugging Along In 2020!
Feb 25, 2020Tony Sestito4
(All images courtesy of their respective websites unless otherwise noted) Believe it or not, the internet as we know it today has been around for 30 years this year. While online bulletin boards and...
Best of 2019: Scrapple! This Week: The Strangest Traffic Stop, Ever.
Jan 02, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
Define “Busy Weekend”: A double-header of live racing for you to enjoy! Chad’s in Sacramento at the Western States Championship, McTaggart is in Texas for the Mid-West Pro Mod party...
LaSalle Speedway, Founded In 1947, Is For Sale. Buy This Place And Fulfill Your Dream Of Owning A Race Track
Oct 26, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on LaSalle Speedway, Founded In 1947, Is For Sale. Buy This Place And Fulfill Your Dream Of Owning A Race Track
When Brian Jortner sends me listings for race tracks for sale, it always makes me curious as to what cool place he’s got listed now. Well this week it is something truly special as LaSalle...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Alphabet Soup – What Do All Those Class Designation Letters Mean, Anyway?!
Aug 08, 2019Brian Lohnes2
(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 3: Barney Oldfield is Banned From Auto Racing While Ernie Moross Creates New Stars and New Records
Aug 02, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on 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...
Pulling Action Coverage: 2019 NTPA Mule City 300 – Horsepower, Carnage, and Big Tractor Counts!
Jun 13, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Pulling Action Coverage: 2019 NTPA Mule City 300 – Horsepower, Carnage, and Big Tractor Counts!
(Words and photos by David Whealon) – As always, the first weekend in June marks the time when Galot Motorsports Park gives the 1/8 mile dragstrip a break and opens the up the back gates for...