Result for: Race Week 2.0
BangShift Top 11: The Top 11 Coolest Cars The Big 3 Had To Offer The Year I Was Born (1972)
Nutting and Brian have both done their “Top 11” list of cool cars from the year they were born, and since they are both youngsters, born in 1984 and 1980 respectively, they didn’t...
Courtney Force And John Force Kick Ass In Vegas. Force Wins 16th NHRA Championship
That’s right folks, after a year of ups and downs within the Force Racing camp, John Force has clinched his 16th NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Championship this past weekend in Vegas. The final...
Car Feature: This 9-Second Blown Oldsmobile Powered Willys Will Bring A Single Tear Of Joy To Your Eye
(Editor’s note: Chuck Lipka’s Willys gasser is awesome, so isn’t the story behind it. The story is even better when he tells it, so that’s what we’re letting him do...
The World’s First 200 MPH Stock Bodied ’55 Chevy! Bob Johnson, Kent Waters, And Keith Dorton Do It!
August 15, 2013 UPDATE: THEY HAVE DONE IT!!! BOB JOHNSON, KENT WATERS, and KEITH DORTON MAKE A STOCK BODIED ’55 CHEVY RUN 200+ AT BONNEVILLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. Last week we told you that...
Project Buford T Justice: We Go On Hot Pursuit Of Horsepower-Our 9C1 Caprice’s 350 Gets A Slap!
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buckle up kids, ’cause we’re going for a long ride. If you remember a couple of months back, we had a grand plan of hitting the drag strip, and then the...
New Car Tech: We Drive The 2013 Ford Fusion Equipped With Lane Keeping Technology
The 2013 Ford Fusion has been met with a warm reception from both the automotive press and the driving public. The styling has been talked about extensively, the small displacement turbocharged...
New Cars: The 2013 Ford Escape – We Drive It…and It Drives Itself!
Recently I was invited by the fine people at Ford to spend a morning checking out, driving, and climbing over the all new 2013 Ford Escape. If you’re wondering what I’d be interested in...
BangShift New Car Review: The 2012 Buick Regal GS [w/video]
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buick fans, it’s time to tell your friends that “Going Fast with Class” is back! After seven days and seven hundred-plus miles behind the wheel of a 2012 Buick...
DUNNE AND MURRILLO TOP NMCA/AEROSPACE COMPONENTS NHRA UNLEASHED WINNERS IN INDY
The NHRA Unleashed Series has changed the world of drag racing as NMCA racers are now able to earn a Wally for the mantle thanks to the combination Unleashed NMCA races that started this year. The...
Event Coverage: 400 plus pictures of Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and Street Machines at the 2011 Goodguys Del Mar Nationals
The Goodguys 11th Meguiars Del Mar Nationals near San Diego featured everything you would expect in a California Car Show. Sun, fun, surf, hot cars, hot girls, and killer racing action were all on...
Project Car Spotlight: Bringing a 1967 Olds 442 Back to Life
“Hemi Joel” Nystrom is no stranger to the pages of BangShift.com. We shared his story of building a F.A.S.T Hemi GTX for drag race warfare, we showed you video of him drag racing, yes,...
Project Car: Complete Buildup Photos of the First F.A.S.T. Mopar in the 10s
Regular readers got to know BangShift.com member Joel Nystrum several weeks ago when we had a video of him powershifting his 30,000-mile original Hemi GTX on an 11-second pass. That was one 1967...
Chadmouth: I Want to be the Guy with the Mullet
While walking through the Long Beach Swap Meet last weekend, I saw some guy in a tube-chassis Duster cruising the parking lot on his way to the car corral and it got me pondering the fact that you...