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More Vintage Carnage: The King and Marshall AA/FD Climbs the Stairway to Heaven!
We’re back again with more crazy video from Jim Knights at Lebanon Valley Dragway. On the same weekend of the insane Funny Car Wreck we showed you earlier, Ray Helger, driving the historic King...
Barnstormin’: Nitro Can Be a Real Bitch…and Other Ruminations From a Wild Weekend in Canada
Last weekend’s IHRA Mopar Nitro Jam Nationals at the Grand Bend Motorplex, in Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada was a pretty wild deal. The race provided several stark examples of just how dangerous...
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...
2011 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Grand Marshall Bruce Larson to Appear on PowerBlock This Weekend!
The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is less than one week away. We’ll be there providing live streaming coverage of the event, right here on BangShift.com! Bruce Larson the NHRA champ and...
eBay Find: A Vintage Jet Funny Car Available for Fun and Profit
Now that Nostalgia Funny Cars are sweeping the nation like some sort of nuclear powered wild fire, it seems about time for the same thing to happed with Jet Funny Cars. Yes, we know that is a...
eBay Find: A BangShifty 1978 Corvette Rear Engine Funny Car
Rear engine floppers have a unique place in drag racing history. The only guy who really did much with one in terms of success was “Big” Jim Dunn and his Dunn and Reath ‘Cuda which...
Barnstormin’: Monster Trucks, Turbos, and a Sanctioning Body on the Rocks
I’m going to start this column off with an admission. I was utterly impressed with monster trucks last weekend. No fake impressed, but really, honestly, holy f’n crap impressed watching a...
NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Drag race Schedule Announced
Earlier this month, our friends at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum and the NHRA announced the Hot Rod Heritage Series race and show schedule for 2010. The official release and schedule is...
Mustang II: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Some say I was a little hard on the 1974-78 Mustang II in “The Top 11 Never Made Special Edition Ford Mustangs” that ran earlier this week on the BangShift.com blog. After all,...
It’s Time for the 2009 March Meet
Bakersfield, California, is known for being hot, and this weekend will be no exception as the 2009 March Meet rolls into town. With nitro-burning front-engine dragsters, Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds,...
2009 NHRA Heritage Series Dates Announced
Here’s the official press release: GLENDORA, Calif. (Jan. 5, 2009) – Two new venues and the addition of an extra event are among the highlights for the 2009 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing...