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Mike Thompson’s 1968 Caprice Wins Big-Block Power Adder at Drag Week

By Day 4 of Drag Week 2009, there were just three cars left in the Big Block Power Adder class, all of them very cool. There was a ’70 Pontiac Grand Prix with a Pontiac mill on nitrous, a...

Breaking News: Larry Larson Wins Hot Rod Drag Week Overall!

It’s the first-ever back-to-back win for Hot Rod Drag Week! The Unlimited class winner for 2009 and the new Hot Rod Magazine Fastest Street Car in America is Larry Larson in his 1966 Nova. The...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 3, Norwalk, Ohio

The five-day road show and drag race that’s called Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2009, presented by Gear Vendors, had more drama than the Wendy Williams show today as transmissions got changed,...

More Affordable Belt Drives from Jesel

Wayne Jesel is one of the coolest guys we see at Bonneville, and this year he got his brother Dan into the 200 MPH Club. Dan runs Jesel Valvetrain Innovations. He must be cool, too, because the...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 2, Martin, Michigan

Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors, is done. There are three days of racing left for the competitors in this wild event that has cars racing at five drag strips in...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 1, Muncie, Indiana

BangShift.com is here all week long at Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Event, sponsored by Gear Vendors. This is the race where cars run five drag strips in five days, and all the competitors are...

Lunati Stroker Cranks for GM Gen 3 and Gen 4 V8s

Lunati has expanded its line of stroker cranks for the hot GM LS-series V8s. Looks like you can build some mondo cubic inches with these things! Here’s the text of the official press release....

Craigslist Nugget: “Rulingest Car Ever”

Some people truly know how to sell. It’s all about the eye-catching title of your ad on Craigslist and the dude selling this really clean Nova pulled out all the stops with the invention of the...

Carbon Motors Buys Indiana Factory

Carbon Motors, the company that has created a prototype dedicated police cruiser, has taken one more step towards reality by purchasing an Indiana Plant to set up their manufacturing operations....

Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Faux Touring at Work

This week’s photographic gem was shot from the hip though the windshield of the import junk rental car Chad and I had during our stay in Bowling Green for the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod...

ADRL Shopping for Race Tracks?

The American Drag Racing League, more commonly known as the ADRL, is the doorslammer-centric sanctioning body which has takent he world of drag racing by storm over the last few years. ADRL’s...

Rally Fans Rejoice! Discovery HD Theater to Air All WRC Races in 2009

Following the World Rally Championship over the last few years has been basically impossible with respect to TV. There were snippets available here and there, but watching a race was an occasional...

Chrysler Executive Promoted, Quits

Andreas Schell, a top Chrysler executive and the man who was to oversee the development of the small car program for the company and who also held the title, Chief of Innovation and Pre-Program...

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd: It’s 1977 in San Fernando Valley Again.

300 plus muscle cars, street machines, and customs cruised Van Nuys Blvd in San Fernando Valley for the first time in decades, and we were there for all the action. What started as a grassroots...