Money No Object: 1952 Muntz Jet – When Sports Car Meets Marketing Maniac
To understand the Muntz Jet, you have to start at the beginning of the story, which would be about 1949. That year, Frank Kurtis, a racer turned builder, started building two-seater fiberglass sports...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Latest “Iconic Body Style”?
Once I’m done writing tonight and snore for a few hours, I’ll get up and start working the Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals for the weekend. It’s the one weekend of the year that the...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro Chapter 7: The Aftermath – What Became Of The Major Players From The First Speed Trials On The Salt
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – For the principals involved in the production of the 1914 Salduro trials, life was never quite the...
If You Have Needed A Street Legal Vintage NASCAR Tribute This David Person Mercury Montego Is Your Jam
This is one of those “see it for what it can be, not what it is” type of things. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with the car as it is now, but it could be taken the whole way home to be...
Action Photo Coverage: Sportsman Racing At The 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – While professional drag racing’s categories have been mechanically whittled down to the most favorable combinations that can win races, NHRA sportsman racing...
Watch Austin Prock Grab His First Top Fuel Win On The Day His Boss John Force Got 150
It is easy to understand how Austin Prock would have been a little nervous on Sunday at Seattle. He was appearing in his first ever top fuel final round. He was doing it mere seconds after his team...
Fair Winds: Cruising A Douglas DC-3 On A Transatlantic Flight
The Douglas DC-3 is the aircraft that made commercial air travel a reality. It was the first airframe that was profitable just by carrying people aboard and it was one of the most mass-produced...
Devil In Disguise: This 1951 Chevrolet Is A Lexus LS400…And It’s Built To Drift
1951 Chevrolet sedan…fat fenders, no fins, the typical “lead sled” kind of body that gives off the same overall vibe as a 1949 Mercury or a bathtub Chrysler. Other than being an old...
Rooting Around: Rockbouncers In The Slop And The Steep In Kentucky!
Summertime in the state of Kentucky doesn’t always equate to dry, dusty back roads lined with corn fields. I can promise you that summer storms are capable of dumping inches of rain at a time...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: How The Heck Does The Record Setting Procedure Work, Anyway?
It is the dream of many hot rodders to attend Speed Week at Bonneville. It is the dream of a smaller group to actually drive something down the salt in anger, and it is the dream of an even smaller...
Rough Start: 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 – It’s Ready And Waiting!
It is rare…exceedingly rare…to find a Rough Start candidate that doesn’t need a massive, three-paragraph writeup in order to sell the average reader on the idea of acquiring a good...
Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Alphabet Soup – What Do All Those Class Designation Letters Mean, Anyway?!
(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...
Spitting Fire: Mating A Supercharged Snowmobile Engine Into A Tiny Triumph
During the height of the small British roadster era, the plan of attack wasn’t a full-on assault of horsepower. Instead, it was about balance: a small and light chassis, the barest of needs and...
The Salt Beds Of Salduro: Chapter Six – One Run by the Blitzen Benz Changes the Course of History for the Salt Beds of Salduro
(By Bret Kepner SCTA Official and member of the Society of Land Speed Historians) – On Wednesday, August 12, 1914, the express train from Salt Lake City was met at 12:45 PM by three drivers...
