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...
One-Family Owned Masterpiece: This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Ignited A Passion!
Maybe Ralph Nader was genuinely trying to save humanity from a mechanical demon that was flawed. History has shown that the first generation Chevrolet Corvair did indeed have handling issues that...
Watch A Huge 48-Foot Power Boat Take Flight While Speeding Over The Wake Of A Yacht – This Is An E-Ticket Ride!
If there’s a group of motorsports enthusiasts crazier than the wheel driven contingent it is the boat guys. The machines are incredible but they are also astronomically expensive to buy,...
Science Time! Does Soaking Tires With Bleach Equal A Bigger, Smokier Burnout?
I’m not going to even pretend what the correlation is between vulcanized rubber and bleach is supposed to be. I’ve heard it from many sources over the years: if you want your burnout...
Go Sand Drag Racing For $10,000 With This Big Block Chevy Powered Jeep
As I write this I am on my way to the first official life experience I will have with drag racing on dirt. I am pretty excited and I have been trying to read up on as much stuff as I possibly can...
Camp Wagon: This 1979 Plymouth TrailDuster Is The Camping Rig Your Dad Wished He Had
“Camping” in my family meant one of two things: either we rolled out the old Coleman pop-up trailer out into the middle of the field and me and my brother lived semi-independently for the...
RideTech Releases Complete Coilover System For 1982-2003 Chevrolet S10 and GMC S15
Well, the men and women of RideTech have done it again. They have chosen a hot platform that is readily available and cheap and introduced a product to allow hot rodders to make it way, way better in...
