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Guest Blog: Broadway Bob Metzler Remembered By Bret Kepner – The Epic Stories Were All True
Aug 02, 2012Brian Lohnes6
(Editor’s note – We’re honored to have this guest submission from Bret Kepner that stands as the definitive chronicle of “Broadway” Bob Metzler’s life and career...
Barnstormin’: Squeezing a Fistful of Sand
May 14, 2012Brian Lohnes6
The last couple of weeks have been abnormally busy around eastern BangShift world HQ and for very sucky reasons. Four major league all stars in the world of hot rodding left this mortal coil and...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong
May 04, 2012Brian Lohnes2
When the dust settles and the big book of drag racing history is finally written, Dale Armstrong will stand alone among a group of five or six men judged to be the greatest crewchiefs of all time....
Jeff Teuton Bringing Two Mopars to ADRL Houston for SuperCar Showdown – One Equipped With V10 Rumored to be Factory 850hp Drag Race Engine
Mar 20, 2012Brian Lohnes5
The hits just keep on coming with respect to the ADRL’s new SuperCar Showdown category. We’ve been unabashed fans of this whole thing since the initial announcement and we continue to be...
GM Performance Announces Continuation of LSX Challenge Series For 2012
Dec 07, 2011Brian Lohnes2
After a successful 2011 run, the four race LSx Challenge series will be back in 2012 per an announcement from GM Performance Parts. The series will comprised of five classes, four of which are heads...
Pioneering Drag Racer Bobby Langley Passes
Oct 28, 2011Brian Lohnes2
Texan Bobby Langley, one of drag racing’s original traveling racers and a true pioneer of the sport, passed away last week at the age of 79. His career began in the mid 1950s and carried on...
Project Car Spotlight: The Roots Blown Mod Motor 33 Gets Paint and More
Oct 11, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Project Car Spotlight: The Roots Blown Mod Motor 33 Gets Paint and More
We don’t know where he gets the time, but in the 6 months following our last update Arrowhead has been busy. The Factory Five Racing ’33 has been sanded, rubbed, tweaked, painted and...
Legit Classic Gassers to Race Heads-Up at This Weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!
Jun 14, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Legit Classic Gassers to Race Heads-Up at This Weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!
As if you needed another reason to attend this weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, here it is. There will be a special eighth mile, heads-up eliminator...
SEMA and Others Form the Save the Salt Coalition
Apr 22, 2011Brian Lohnes4
The Bonneville Salt Flats stand as one of the most historic and important places in the history of hot rodding and motorsports in general. The health and long term survival of the place is of...
GM Performance Parts Announces the 2011 LSX Challenge Series
Jan 24, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on GM Performance Parts Announces the 2011 LSX Challenge Series
GM Performance Parts has announced the creation of the LSx Challenge Series, a four race points style drag racing series that will pit racers running factory LS or GMPP LSx engines against each other...
Pat Musi heads to Las Vegas hoping to hit the jackpot in Pro Street.
Nov 18, 2010Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Pat Musi heads to Las Vegas hoping to hit the jackpot in Pro Street.
Anyone who has had the pleasure of talking to Pat Musi in person, or who has seen him interviewed on TV knows that he’s one hell of a character and competitor. For this year’s Street Car...
Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video
Oct 27, 2010Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video
If you are going to be in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area this weekend, you are going to want to keep your Friday night open for the Detroit Speed Open House and BBQ. Just a hop, skip, and a jump...
Update:DMC Racing nears completion on Repairs to Jason Enos’s Outlaw 10.5 Mustang
Jul 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Update:DMC Racing nears completion on Repairs to Jason Enos’s Outlaw 10.5 Mustang
See our latest updates on this story at the bottom of this page. Part I: We were just about sick to our stomach when we heard that Jason Enos’s 1967 Mustang had caught a case of...
Pat Musi Back in Action with NHRA This Weekend
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Pat Musi Back in Action with NHRA This Weekend
Soft spoken New Jersey native Pat Musi will be racing this weekend at Englishtown at the NHRA SuperNationals. The last time Musi suited up at an NHRA national event he was racing in Pro Stock, now...