Future Flash: A Week In The Seat Of A 2015 BMW i8 Provides A Glimpse Into What Lies Ahead
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It does not look, sound or behave like any other car I have ever spent time in before. It literally causes people to stop and take notice. My kids thought it was a...
Check Out The Takeoff And Landing Distances Of Bobby Breeden’s Plane At Valdez STOL 2015!
Taking off and landing a plane are the two most worrisome times for a pilot. Normally, the best way to handle both situations is a long and wide runway, and no potential chance for obstruction, rogue...
BangShift Goes To Rally School! Team O’Neil Rally School In New Hampshire Teaches The Unteachable
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – You may remember us regaling you with stories about riding shotgun in rally cars a couple of weeks back. The good news is that the rally car riding stuff was only...
Rough Ride Video: Watch Competition Eliminator Racer Dale Giroux Roll Hard In Seattle
One of the things that keep me drawn to drag racing is that you literally never know what is going to happen on the next run. You can go an entire weekend, loading hundreds and hundreds of pairs down...
NSRA Nationals 2015: More Photos From The Humongous Gathering In Louisville
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Here’s kind of a funny story. Last weekend when I was at the Mopar Nationals I got into town a little early. Because I am a drag dork of the highest order I...
This Could Be The Coolest 1935 Dodge Truck Ever – Shut Up And Take Our Money!
One thing that is nearly impossible to do whether we are talking old cars or old trucks is to combine some hot rodding, some custom finishing, and some classical restoration techniques to pull a...
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Wendover Airfield
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Now that your eyes are bugging out of your head since you just saw the title, this item first ran on January 20, 2009 when we were known as Freiburger’s Junkyard and...
Brainerd International Raceway Is Patched Up And Ready For NHRA Event – Lemonade Made From Lemons
Back in July, Brainerd International Raceway got pummeled with a freak little supercell thunderstorm. Actually, it was not so little. It folded a section of grandstands up like an accordion, mangled...
Iconic Bodies Gallery: The Drag Machines Stir The Soul And The Gearhead Passions In All Of Us
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Call them historic or iconic or whatever – this kind of stuff represents some of the best to ever take a lap down the track. How about a pro stock...
In Memoriam: Buddy Baker, NASCAR’s “Gentle Giant” And Racing Great
On July 7, 2015, during his stint on Sirius XM’s NASCAR Radio channel, Buddy Baker told the listening audience that effective immediately, he was leaving the channel. He had been told by...
Pomona Swap Meet Coverage: More Cool, Ragged, Interesting, And Totally For Sale Stuff!
We’re back with another installment of photos from the August 2015 Pomona Swap Meet. Again this time we are going to concentrate on the cars and trucks that were for sale in the car corral...
Dyno Shootout Coverage: The Mopar Muscle Magazine Dyno Contest Was Fun!
With Bonneville cancelled and having already removed myself from the NHRA Seattle announcing staff with the expectation of being on the salt, I was expecting to be home last weekend. The bullpen...
Watch The 12 Cool, Fun, And Bizarre Pairs That Decided The NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl
(Video credit: VictoryRedColorado-YouTube) – We have showed you some cool individual videos from the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl competition in Chicago but this is the full monte, every one of the 12...
eBay Find: This 1978 Ford C-Series Fire Truck Turned Wrecker Is Cool!
The Ford C-series of medium and heavy duty trucks is kind of legendary. Produced from the late 1950s into the 1990s only the W900 Kenworth and Mack R-Model have been produced longer than these...
