Scott Palmer and The NHRA Top Fuel Cat Spot Team Had A Runner Up Celebration For The Ages On Sunday Night In Phoenix
Scott Palmer is one of NHRA top fuel drag racing’s unlikely and awesome heroes. The guy has worked for the majority of his life to get where he is today in the sport and he’s honestly...
IHRA Summit Sportsman Spectacular Season Opener Delayed – Drag Strip Construction On-Going
Well this is not the start that the planners of the IHRA Summit Sportsman Spectacular series had in mind. It has been announced that the first the of the year has been rescheduled from March 9-11 to...
Lights Out 9 Action Photo Coverage: Wrecks, Thrashes, Launches, Top End Shots, and More
(Photos by Randy McCuddy) – The good news is that Andrew Johnson was OK after his 1955 Chevrolet hit the wall at Lights Out 9. The bad news is that the car was unable to return to racing but...
Watch The Horrendous John Force Jonnie Lindberg Crash From The NHRA Arizona Nationals
The silence hung over the track like a lead curtain. You could have heard a pin drop for minutes as the NHRA Safety Safari tended to both John Force and Jonnie Lindberg after one of the scariest...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Potholes, Taxes, And Paradise!
You want weather? Got plenty of weather you can have! Between the flooding, the temperature changes, and let’s not forget the freaking tornadoes that walked around BangShift Mid-West this...
Awakening The Dead: Watch As Old Engines Are Brought Back To Life!
There is an immense joy to be had when an engine that hasn’t ran in forever kicks over and returns to life. It’s such a satisfactory accomplishment. You’ve done all of the checks to...
Going For Broken: Watch This Holden Blow Off The Supercharger At Over 10,000RPM!
A 327 Chevrolet can tolerate RPMs in the range of about 7,500 for only so long before a spinning a main bearing. That was the first lesson I ever learned about Engine Destruction 101. I didn’t...
Rough Start: 351 Cubic Inches In A 1991 Ford LTD Crown Victoria That Has Train Horns!
Crown Vics come in two flavors: cop and old person. That’s the way it’s been since full-size cars fell out of favor to mid-sizers. While everyone was snapping up Fairmonts, Fox LTDs and...
Video: Courtney Force And Deric Kramer Shake Up Final Qualifying Order At NHRA Arizona Nationals
Here you go, the final qualifying order after four sessions at the NHRA Arizona Nationals in Chandler. There are tons of heavy hitters aiming at the NHRA Titles for 2018 and records are already...
It’s Tiny But We’d Drive It! This Right Hand Drive 1979 Austin Mini 850 Is The Little Car Everyone Loves
There is something about a Mini that just speaks to people. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t think they are cool, even if they don’t particularly want to own one. I do want to own...
The Whittier Area Car Show In Southern California, Charity Never Looked So Good, Again!
(Photos and Words by Darr Hawthorne) Small town America is alive and well in the SoCal city of Whittier, in that part of town there’s a particularly huge collection of hot rods, cruisers, racers...
BANGshift Question Of The Day: At $10,000 Is This, Used To Be An Off Year, 1979 Z28 Camaro A Deal Or A Dud?
Remember when you used to hate these late 2nd Gen Camaros? I couldn’t stand them for decades. Now I dig them. And there isn’t any real reason that I can put my finger on for my newfound...
Pictures! Edgewater Sports Park Should Change Their Name To Underwater Sports Park
The weather this year has been strange to say the least. I just got back from a trip to North Carolina and Tennessee where it was in the 70’s and 80’s while only reaching the 50’s...
