BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are You Going To Ask Santa To Bring You This Year?
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
You’ve got a couple of weeks left until the big day that involves boxes under the tree, you know. I’m shopping, you are shopping, everybody and their mother is shopping, it seems. Shop,...
Dick LaHaie Has Died At Age 76 – Relive A Top Fuel Win With He and Kim From 1985 – A True Legend
Dec 07, 2018Brian Lohnes5
He was one of drag racing’s true gentlemen. Dick LaHaie was a racer that it was nearly impossible to root against. He and his daughter Kim were sentimental favorites during their rise to top...
Rough Start: Sleepy Brown – This 1979 Buick LeSabre Is The Perfect Hustle Car
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
A Buick LeSabre of similar vintage to the 1979 coupe that we found while surfing for Rough Start finds is one of our top picks for a true sleeper. That car, a blue mirror-image on nitrous, is known...
Do They Come Cooler Than This: 1964 LeSabre Convertible With A Cool Engine, New Parts, and Just Enough Rash To Rule
Dec 06, 2018Brian Lohnes4
This car is absolutely and utterly awesome. I am not a guy who normally even thinks about liking convertibles but the fact of the matter is that I am in love with this one. Holy smokes. What you have...
Industry News: Race Winning Brands Acquires MGP Connecting Rods – A Burly Brand Gets Stronger
Dec 06, 2018Brian Lohnes2
The week of the Performance Racing Industry show is always one that is packed with news and the guys at Race Winning Brands seem to have landed the first big blow. The company has announced that they...
Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Alright, I’m going to cop to a failure: I was planning on getting videos and much more photos from the first King of the Heap event of the year at NCM Motorsports Park. What ended up happening...
From Death To Demonic: This Chrysler 300C Went From An Insurance Total To A Six-Speed Ripper!
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on From Death To Demonic: This Chrysler 300C Went From An Insurance Total To A Six-Speed Ripper!
A couple of days ago I found video of a ProCharged Chrysler 300C with a manual trans swap that had been built to race in Australia. The words “manual swap” attached to “Chrysler...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals: Haulers, Trucks, Wagons And More Vintage Steel That We Love!
Dec 06, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Why is there another shot (different angle and light) of the flamed ’40 Ford…? Because I like it so much and I’m the one putting these galleries...
Morning Symphony: Giving The Turbochargers That Afterglow!
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Aussie burnout contests are akin to a rock concert: you aren’t going there for any technical aspect, nor are you there to learn something. You’re there because loud noises, a crowd in a...
2018 Houston Autorama Photo Gallery: Hot Rods and More On The Concrete Show Floor
Dec 06, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Houston, Texas area has been a hot bed for hot rodding for more than half a century. There have been legendary car dealers down there like Gay Pontiac, there...
Rough Start: Longroof Fans, Here’s Your Chance! A 1967 Chevy Impala 396!
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggart9
A couple of years ago, me and Lohnes got into a mud-throwing contest over longroofs. We went back and forth over them for a couple of weeks and dredged up everything from big-block, wood paneled...
El National? Caballero T-Type? Whatever You Call It, This Buick 3.8 Turbo-Swapped GMC Caballero Is All Of The Awesome!
Dec 06, 2018Tony Sestito3
As we all know, General Motors has a history for building a ton of cars for all of its various car lines on shared platforms. In fact, no one “badge engineers” cars and trucks as much as...
Ever Wonder How They Get Those Massive 10-foot Tall Tires On Bigfoot? It Ain’t Easy! Here’s A Time Lapse Video
Dec 05, 2018Brian Lohnes4
I think everyone who loves monster trucks over the age of 30 can probably the remember the first time they saw Bigfoot 5 either in person on or TV. This is the truck that wears the insane 10-foot...
Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat
Dec 05, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat
If you go back into the early days of drag racing, you will find that World War II had a strong influence on the motorsport. Don’t just blankly stare the screen, it’s the truth: GIs who...












