This Crazy Triple Engine 1985 Custom Panther Is One LONG Cruiser – Would You Roll In It?
Jun 21, 2015Brian Lohnes8
This is a 1985 Custom Panther that was obviously designed and conceived by a crazy person who enjoyed cartoons because how else in the world would someone dream this up? The thing literally looks...
HISTORY! Alan O’Brien’s Twin-Turbo AMC Dragster Makes 5-second Pass – Quickest and Fastest AMC Ever
Jun 21, 2015Brian Lohnes7
There was some history made at the NHRAV Thunder Valley Nationals when Alan O’Brien charged down the quarter mile in his awesome AMC powered dragster and stopped the clocks in 5.997 seconds at...
Near Disaster Video: Another Calamity From The Legal Street Race In Oklahoma – This Time A Repair Truck Causes Chaos
Jun 21, 2015Brian Lohnes12
(By Jason Mazzotta) – We have already seen plenty of action from the crazy legal street race on Route 66 in El Reno, Oklahoma, including the near flattening of a crewman when two cars came...
2015 LA Roadsters Show: The Historic Event Keeps Getting Better – Here’s Roadster Heaven!
Jun 21, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on 2015 LA Roadsters Show: The Historic Event Keeps Getting Better – Here’s Roadster Heaven!
2015 marks the 51st running of the LA Roadtsers show and 36 of those years the show has been held at the Pomona Fairplex where so many other great shows are held throughout the years. The event is...
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Cars, Trucks, And Coolness Galore In Bowling Green
Jun 21, 2015Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While the weather was not cooperative during the weekend in Bowling Green, it did not take the wind out of anyone’s sales or dampen spirits at all during...
Unhinged: McTaggart’s Top 16 From The 2015 Holley Hot Rod Reunion
Jun 21, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
The Holley Hot Rod Reunion is effectively my anniversary mark for BangShift.com, and is also one of the largest events that I have attended several times over. I love the mix of cars that come out to...
This 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Was Just Traded In To A Dealership…Interested?
Jun 20, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
It constantly amazes me that cars like this 1966 Ford manage to survive for decades in near-perfect stock form. Many, many times I’ve seen forty or fifty year-old vehicles that have managed to...
BASTARDS: Thieves Steal $1,000,000 In Race Engines And Parts From Charlie Buck Racing Engines – Help Find ‘Em!
Jun 20, 2015Brian Lohnes19
We have to thank Jeff Lee for sending us a tip to a story that has our blood boiling. Charlie Buck Racing Engines has been a force to be reckoned with in the nitrous and heavy duty drag racing engine...
Watch Tom Meents Attempt (And Nearly Land) The First Monster Truck Front Flip Jump
Jun 20, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch Tom Meents Attempt (And Nearly Land) The First Monster Truck Front Flip Jump
(By Jason Mazzotta) – Tom Meents has forever been known as a wild man behind the wheel, from his early days in mud trucks throughout his time in the Maximum Destruction monster trucks and...
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Our Photo Blast Begins NOW!
Jun 19, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Our Photo Blast Begins NOW!
(PHOTOS BY BRYAN MCTAGGART) – While mother nature doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with the plan at the 2015 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we’re on the grounds and...
Thornhill Dragway Nostalgia Drag Photos: Freaky Funny Cars, Straight Axle Mafia Coolness
Jun 19, 2015Brian Lohnes2
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So what we have here are the Straight-Axle Mafia and some other classic-style racers that came to play old-time drags. The racing was 1/8th mile and was...
LINGENFELTER HAS FATHER’S DAY DEALS ON CAR CARE PRODUCTS THAT YOUR DAD NEEDS!
Jun 19, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on LINGENFELTER HAS FATHER’S DAY DEALS ON CAR CARE PRODUCTS THAT YOUR DAD NEEDS!
We know you love your pop and that you want to get him something neat for Father’s Day. Spoiler alert: socks, ties, shoes, shaving products, and gag gifts aren’t going to get the job...
Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s
Jun 19, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s
Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly...
2015 NHRA New England Nationals: Our Last Great Photo Collection – Drivers, Crowds, Racing Action
Jun 19, 2015Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – The second of a three race back to back to back stretch on the east coast for NHRA teams the NHRA New England Nationals was another success for the venerable drag...












