Want The Hardest Dream Job Known To Man? Cruz Pedregon Needs A Crew Guy!
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes5
(Photo: PedregonRacing.com) – If you have dreamed about running away from home and joining the circus known as professional drag racing, here’s your shot. Cruz Pedregon is looking for a...
Watch An AMX Super Stocker Rip Off A 300-Foot Wheelie – No Sissy Sticks For This Guy!
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes5
Gharrett Ghezzi’s AMX super stocker is of the neatest cars I get to see in my announcing travels across the country. The thing is painted up in the factory AMC racing colors with that...
Tim Wilkerson Suffers Strange Crash During NHRA Kansas Nationals Eliminations
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes11
Tim Wilkerson was chewing his way through eliminations on Sunday at the NHRA Kansas nationals when disaster struck and he suffered one of the strangest funny car crashes we have ever seen. We were at...
Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back
May 23, 2016Bryan McTaggart6
I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...
James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track
May 23, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track
Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...
CraigsList: The World’s Nicest Chevette Scooter Is Up For Sale
There’s no point in sugar-coating this: The Chevette was a miserable car from a miserable era of American motoring. The 1973 gas shortage had sent automakers into a panic and Chevy had...
Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria
May 22, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria
If there’s anything to take away from this absolutely brutal crash in the European Formula 3 Championship last weekend, it’s that modern safety gear is entirely remarkable. Chinese driver Zhi...
Unhinged: Will Anything The Young Guns Do Ever Be Right In The Eyes Of The “True Gearhead”?
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggart20
I have a hypothetical situation for you to think about. Don’t immediately answer it, just ponder it for a minute: At whatever meet up, or race, or show, or whatever you do that involves cars...
Watch This Crazed USOMRA Mud Truck With Paddle Tires Cover A 200ft Dirt Course In 2.006 Seconds!
May 22, 2016Brian Lohnes2
So to start, we know this is not a proper mud pit but a dirt drag course. That being said, it is still a freaking dirt drag course and this blown alky hemi powered mud dragster covers a 200ft...
Too Much At The Hit? Watch This Pontiac Firehawk Go Straight For The Sky!
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Yanking the wheels at launch is one thing. Realizing that you no longer see the horizon…or the time displays at the end of the track…or trees…yeah, that might be just a step too...
Two rally cars crash into same section of woods, which promptly catches on fire
May 22, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on Two rally cars crash into same section of woods, which promptly catches on fire
Fire is a racecar driver’s biggest fear and there are few things more frightening than the prospect of experiencing fire on a rally stage miles from any fire crew. That circumstance befell not one...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, Sticky Cars And Flying Stars In Cars!
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, Sticky Cars And Flying Stars In Cars!
Another beautiful Spring week passes on, and another week of racing and automotive tomfoolery is occupying our time. Chad is doing the Livestreaming thing, Brian is doing his thing behind the...
Anybody Like An Old Tow Truck? This 1978 Ford C600 Wrecker Is Cab-Over Greatness!
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
It’s short, stronger than an ox, with classic lines and a shape that is wholly distinctive. With a big V8 (either an “FT” or a 385-series 370ci big block) hooked to a set of deep...
Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!
The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...












