Love Fire Trucks But Really Need A Hauler? This Fire Truck Based Hauler Is The Answer!
Back in 2008 Spartan Fire Apparatus wanted to create a rig to haul their promotional trailer around to shows and events. Rather than just do the normal thing a buy a toter, the company put its...
Cool Old Video: This 1950s Dodge Promotional Video Is All About The Red Ram Hemi
The Chrysler hemi in all of its glorious forms is one of the great engines in hot rodding history. From the little hemi engines of the 1950s to the mighty second generation engines of the 1960s and...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine In History Has Had The Best Factory Name?
One of the things that manufacturers have lost the plot on in recent years is naming their engines. Hell, we told you about one example coming from GM today as they are calling a new turbocharged...
Watch The Hampton Hooker John Deere Pulling Tractor Launch The Entire Engine Out Of Itself!
This is pretty amazing and not exactly in a good way. As stunning as it is to watch from a video screen we can only imagine what it was like to be in the driver’s seat of the tractor when the...
Watch Sonny Leonard Himself Rip A Naturally Aspirated 1,000ci Engine To 8,000 RPM On His Dyno – 2,000hp!
Sonny Leonard is now and will forever be considered one of the best big cubic inch engine builders ever. The words “mountain motor” have been defined by a handful of men over the years...
Video and The History Of Duke Nalon’s Rocket Assisted 1940s Indy Car Are Amazing!
Just ahead of the 1946 Indy 500, Chicagoan Duke Nalon did what any sensible racer would do to pull an extra few miles per hour from his race car: He strapped a 40-pound solid fuel rocket to it....
Watch a 1200hp Blown and Alky Injected Mud Bogger Go Romping Through the Louisiana Swamp
No matter what type of organized automotive activity that you’re into, there are bragging rights involved. The bragging rights are probably no bigger or more completely over the top than in the...
Thursday BOOM: Funny Car Blower Explosions
As evidenced by the wild lead photo of the funny car belching fire from every possible place, blower explosions in drag race machinery can be spectacularly awful. With the modern advent of burst...
Wild Ride: Watch This Driver Keep His Twin Turbo 292 Y-Block Powered Altered Off The Wall
If there is one thing that drag racers know how to do it is stressing their engine combinations to the breaking point in the search for maximum performance. This is not a trait limited to North...
Suit-And-Tie 1960’s Badass: This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere II Is Lust-Worthy!
Clean, straightforward, all-business. Trimmed hair, suit dialed in to perfection, tie choice excellent and demure. The man’s man of the early 1960s…all business, all professional. The...
FIRE! Incredible Photos Of Billy Meyer’s 1977 Funny Car Blaze
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – These photos depict Billy Meyer’s nightmarish fire at the 1977 NHRA Le GrandNational at Sanair Super Speedway outside of Montreal, Canada (photos say 1972 in...
Recycling Gone Wrong: GM Announces The New 2.7L Turbo-Four Will Be Called “Tripower”
Dusting off an old, storied nameplate to affix it to a new thing almost never works out well. When Pontiac re-badged the Holden Monaro, a potent rear-drive coupe with a V8 and a six-speed, into the...
Blake Alexander, Robert Hight, Jeg Coughlin Jr & LE Tonglet Win Pro Classes at Sonoma Sell Out!
(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – This year has brought new interest, new winners and new professional teams into the NHRA Mello Yello Series. There have been some subtle changes, but...
Video: Watch A Wild Pulling Tractor Pass Where A Busted Off Front Wheel And Exploding Motor Don’t Stop The Driver From Keeping The Hammer Down!
We’ve all been there. You’re having a rough time with your car or truck, or in this case airplane engine powered pulling tractor. The thing is acting bad, not running right, and...
