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...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Walk Don’t Run – The Ventures (1960)
The Ventures are the largest selling instrumental group of all time. According to most sources, since the early 1960s the group has moved something like 100-million albums. The song that really...
Doorslammer Video: Watch Jeff Littleton Slap One On Scotty Cannon At Lassiter Mountain Dragway Circa 1990
Ahhhh, the old days of 1990. Some of you laugh when we mention that but hey, 1990 is now 26 years in the past! This video is a perfect example of the days when top sportsman heroes were morphing into...
Gearhead Language History: The Origins Of The Phrase ‘Full Tilt’ – Cooler Than You Think!
Occasionally when Chad and I are together we manage to have a semi-intelligent conversation. These moments are so few and far between that when they do happen, I document them. One of the things we...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best “Yard Car” Memory?
We called it the “War Car”. It was a 1975-ish Dodge Coronet two-door that somehow had earned a target for elimination, a sentence of death by torture. The big brown barge of a Mopar...
