PRI 2014: A Collection Of Photos Featuring Engines And Just Engines – Gas, Diesels, V8s, Four Bangers, Turbos, Blowers, More!
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1
One of the reasons we love the 2014 PRI show (like every other year of the PRI show) is that the whole thing is chocked with hardcore parts and components. There are no light up blinky things, no...
Watch Quain Stott Make The Greatest Gasser Save We Have Ever Seen – In Car And Out of Car Video
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes2
(We love great driving “saves” around here and the best save we saw in 2014 came from Rockingham Dragway and featured the legendary driving skills of Quain Stott. A Champion pro mod racer...
The Biggest Hell’s Angel That Ever Lived Was Also One Of The Scariest – The Story Of Armond Bletcher
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes12
(Perhaps the most interesting and frightening that BangShift stumbled upon in 2014 was Armond Bletcher. His story reads like it is straight out of the script from the Sons of Anarchy television show....
PRI 2014: The New FAST LSXr Tunable Intake Has Multiple Runner Options That You Can Swap Yourself! Tune The Intake For Your Combo And Grow With It
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes5
There’s a ton of new, innovative and interesting stuff here at PRI 2014 and this new FAST LSRx Intake is one of those things. With the ability for the end user to literally tune the thing to...
It’s A Treasure Trove Of History! Check Out These Old Chicago Auto Show Clips!
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart2
Photos and footage from any of the big auto shows are excellent snapshots into the history of automobiles, something we have spent tons of time perusing through YouTube for over the years. However,...
Watch A Fuel Altered Crash And Then Come Back Up The Drag Strip The Wrong Way At Full Throttle Before Exploding – Terrifying!
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes5
(Editor’s note: Looking back at the stuff we posted in 2014, this is by far the more terrifying video we showed you. It bears watching again, even if you have already seen it. Watching a AA/FA...
Historical Video: The Official Introduction Of The 1992 Dodge Viper
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
By the late 1980s Chrysler’s K-car renaissance was getting stale and sales showed it. The management knew that they had to bring out something special in order to stir up new interest, and...
If You Are Looking For Tips On How To Race Your Bike, This Video Will Show You Everything You Should Not Do
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
Drag racing, even at the amateur level, isn’t as easy as it looks. Hitting the gas and driving a straight line for a quarter mile can present it’s challenges, and most of them are at the...
Ford Confirms Formation of “Ford Performance” and Upcoming Focus RS
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
Details of Ford’s plans have started to appear a good month early of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and even the tiny confirmations are certainly hinting towards an...
No Matter What Your Friends Keep Telling You, It’s A Raptor, Not A Trophy Truck [VIDEO]
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart9
All of the classic ingredients are here: you have a dirt track that appears to be better suited for a motocross than it does for a truck, lined with people, and a couple of cameras filming the whole...
PRI 2014: This Twin Whipple Blown, 640ci, 2,000hp On 93 Octane, Goodwin Competition Semi-Hemi Is The Most Awesome Engine Here
Dec 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Wisconsin’s Goodwin Competition builds some of the nastiest drag race, truck/tractor pulling, and racing boat engines that we have ever seen. It is always neat to check in with those guys at...
See That VW Golf Smashed Between Those Two Trucks? Not Only Did The Driver Live, But Escaped Without Major Injury!
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart3
An English woman is exceptionally lucky to be alive after her Volkswagen Golf was crushed between a dumpster-hauling truck and a tractor-trailer yesterday in Essex. The 27-year-old woman was waiting...
Photos Of Race Cars And Cool Parts From Day One Of PRI 2014
Dec 12, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Photos Of Race Cars And Cool Parts From Day One Of PRI 2014
PRI 2014, aka the Performance Racing Industry Show 2014, is like mecca for race car guys. No place else in the world has a cooler variety of race parts and race cars, all in one place where you can...
Question Of The Day: Could The 1964 Barracuda Have Outdone The Mustang If Plymouth Hid It’s Origins Better?
Dec 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart7
The Ford Mustang gets the credit for creating the pony car market, but it wasn’t the first car to take the compact car and try to sell it to younger people. That distinction goes to the...