Dragsters and Altereds In Action at Famoso Raceway – March Meet Hot Rods At Work
It was dragsters that built the March Meet. From its earliest days in the late 1950s to the point where funny cars were so popular that they could to longer be ignored, front engine dragsters were...
Video: Forty Two Years Ago The Most Spectacular Fire In The History Of Dirt Track Racing Took Place In Kansas At The Hutchinson Nationals
Thanks to BangShifter Don McGinnis we have this incredible video to show you today about a catastrophe that happened 40 years ago and has largely been lost to the unrelenting march of time. This is...
World of Outlaws Coverage: More Great Action Photos From Royal Purple Raceway
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – A day or two ago we showed you Charles Wickam’s first batch of killer photos from the World of Outlaws event which was held on the dirt track at Royal Purple...
Big 3 Swap Meet 2016 Coverage: Killer Kustoms, and Lots More Bang Shift Approved Iron
The Big 3 swap meet goes far beyond what that simple name implies. Because it has been going on for a half a century, it has developed a culture all its own and there are lots of people who show up...
2016 Detroit Autorama Coverage: The Most BangShift Approved Iron Inside COBO Hall Is Here!
(Photos by Mike Brooks/Octane Images) – We’re lucky to have guys like Mike Brooks here at BangShift. Without him we’d be in total darkness on these pages because (as usual) the...
Mud Bog and Monster Truck Time Machine: Here’s The Scene, The Rigs, and The Muck From Newkirk, Oklahoma Circa 1984
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here’s the latest installment of our mud bog and monster truck time machine stories. Heading further North on our wayback journey we turn to NewKirk,...
Carl Casper Car Show 2016 Coverage: Wing Cars, Mopars, and Cool Stuff You’ll Love!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More than halfway through the 2016 Carl Casper show coverage. Lots of stuff in here, but we were blown away by the winged wonder and its tale of...
Good Vibrations March Meet 2016 Friday Drag Strip Action From Famoso Raceway!
It was a day of big numbers, big carnage, and big surprises as racers attacked the historic quarter mile at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield California during the second day of the 2016 Good Vibrations...
Good Vibrations March Meet 2016: Friday Pit Thrash Photos! Lots Of Work Being Done
Friday was a hard luck day at the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet. There was carnage a plenty in virtually every class and especially in the nitro burning categories. There were funny cars flipping...
March Meet 2016 Photo Coverage: Friday In The Famoso Grove At Bakersfield
As we told you the other day lots of the show at the March Meet takes place off of the track. Not that far off of the track, mind you but basically parallel to it in the Famoso Grove. From the guys...
What Does It Look Like When Two Grandmothers Take A Lamborghini Murcielago On A Trip To The Shop? It’s Great Fun!
On one side of my family, my grandmother owned a third-gen Pontiac Trans Am and used it daily, with no qualms whatsoever about opening it up when the mood hit her. Many, many times she’d take...
Classic YouTube: Pro Stock Eliminator Footage From The 1988 Australian Drag Racing Nationals At Willowbank Raceway!
I love 1980s Pro Stock footage. You have screaming engines that the drivers are willing to rev to the moon, dry hops, burnouts in excess, yet you still have cars that are basically the cars you see...
FCA Teases Two Of The Concept Jeeps That Will Appear At The 2016 Easter Jeep Safari: “Trailcat” and “Crew Chief”!
Every year Jeep brings out some tasty treats to the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. This serves two purposes: it’s a kind of “thank you” to the legions of Jeep-loyal fans that...
Watch As This FPV F6 Blasts Deep Into The Nines – Six Cylinder, Six-Speed Auto And Street Driven!
Had you told anyone twenty years ago that a car like this FPV (Ford Performance Vehicles) F6 would exist, you would have been laughed out of town. A rear-drive sedan? GM had just killed the B-bodies...
