Plant Tour: A Visit To FK Rod Ends And Fragola Performance Systems – Making Components In The USA The Right Way
Sometimes even the best laid plans take a while to play out and because of Ma Nature’s open assault on the New England area this winter, it took way too long for me to make the couple hour...
Best Of BS 2015: Watch This Lame Looking Eagle Summit Hand A Mustang And A Supra Their Lunch At The Drag Strip
When I first started announcing drag racing half a lifetime ago, I was the test and tune night guy. Frankly, there are days that I long for that job again because everyone completely underestimates...
Legendary Drag Racer Jim “Superman” Nicoll Has Died – Survived Horrendous 1970 US Nationals Top Fuel Wreck
(Photos credit: NHRA/NationalDragster.com) – One of the most colorful characters in drag racing’s brilliant past has died. Jim “Superman” Nicoll who was the 1970 Drag News...
Best Of BS 2015: Kenny Reece’s “3-to-1” 427-powered Supermodified
In the quest for racing supremacy, creative engineering becomes the tool of the imaginative and certain cars push (and sometimes, exceed) the boundaries of the established rules. You know several...
Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming
It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...
Best Of BS 2015: The Most American “V8 Interceptor” We Could Find
(This Javelin-turned-V8 Interceptor was easily one of this year’s most talked about eBay finds of this year. It’s not like Australian Falcons are common in the States, so creativity is a...
Best Of BangShift: Harvest Brigade – How Government, Industry, And Farmers Fed The Country During WWII
The story of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade is an interesting one because it combines elements of opportunistic business practices, an honest measure of good will and forward thinking, the...
Best Of BS 2015: Happiness Is Running A Snotty F100 Through An Autocross Like You Own The Place
This is pretty much what a Craftsman Truck would look like circa 1971, and that’s awesome to us. This Ford F100 makes the right noises, dances properly, and rips through the cones of this Texas...
Best of BangShift 2015: Burndown! Watch The Awesome Pro Stock Final From The NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals In Denver
I know it seems like we’re going overload on the NHRA Denver stuff but the race was freaking awesome and it had so many elements to it that we can hardly get them all wedged into today’s...
Best Of BS 2015: The Kibbetech-built Crown Victoria Prerunner Is Stirring Up Ideas In Our Heads
Soak in that visual for a second: a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria prerunner. Everything but four wheel drive is present and accounted for: ‘cage, flared out fenders, suspension with good travel,...
Best of BS 2015: BURNDOWN! Watch Brian Hicks and Josh Green Melt Their Pro Mods To The Ground At The NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl!
In the history of drag racing, we’re not sure that a pro mod staging burndown has ever been stopped by one of the competitor’s dad’s but in the case of the nearly 1:30 staging war...
Best Of BS 2015: Here’s All The Fun You Could Be Having If You Jammed A Blown 5.4L V8 Into A Crown Victoria
“Quickcrownvic” took one look at his Ford Crown Victoria and sighed. The 4.6L V8 just wasn’t doing the trick anymore. At maybe 240 horsepower on a good day, there just wasn’t...
Best of BangShift 2015: Les Mayhew’s Roy Hill Indy Video Is The Best Thing You Will See Today
We have showed you Roy Hill’s two crazed Factory Stock Cobra Jet runs separately but this video by Les Mayhew for CompetitionPlusTV ties them both together with multiple angles and uses a...
Best of BS 2015: First Time Ever A B-52 Flew OUT Of The Famed Arizona Airplane “Boneyard” And Back Into Service – This Is Awesome
(Photo: Master Sgt. Greg Steele/USAF) – Usually when old military aircraft fly into the famed “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona they don’t come out under their own...
