BangShifty Bits From The Pits A Central Illinois Dragway – Cool Cars, Carnage, And Stuff Galore
Jun 02, 2014Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Last week we showed you Greg Rourke’s great action photos from the strip at Central Illinois Dragway. Today we’re taking you into the pits through the lens...
Watch A Syracuse, Utah Dad Use His Lifted Ram To Stop A Crazed Driver From Running Over Kids At A Park
Jun 02, 2014Brian Lohnes9
(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – A fourteen year old decided that he would grab the keys to his grandfather’s Hyundai Veloster and go driving around Syracuse, Utah like he was used to doing on...
Monday Shopper: 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS – $7,500
Jun 02, 2014Craig Fitzgerald4
I like Hagerty Insurance a lot, but I’ll never understand their impulse to talk about how collector car prices are on the rise year after year. First off, suggesting to regular Joes that...
Watch Gary Courtier Suffer One Of The Most Intense And Raging Pro Mod Fires Of All Time
Jun 02, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Gary Courtier has been racing pro modified cars in the New England for more than a decade. His machines have always been nitrous injected, they have always been Camaro bodied, and they have always...
Watch Four Minutes Of Hilarious Trailer Loading Fails To Get Your Monday Started Right
Jun 02, 2014Brian Lohnes6
We sure hope you had a fun weekend. The crappy part, as we all know is that a fun weekend ultimately comes to an end when Monday morning rolls around and that’s just one of the realities of...
Watch An 8 Second Volkswagen Miss A Shift, Causing An Endo, And Then Still Run 170+ MPH!
Jun 02, 2014Chad Reynolds4
When Michel Lubberts sent us the tip on this one, after Brian posted the Parting Shift about how bad it was to go from 3rd gear to 2nd gear, I was intrigued by the photo you see above more than...
More Goodguys Summer Get Together Photos From Sunny Pleasanton California.
Jun 02, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on More Goodguys Summer Get Together Photos From Sunny Pleasanton California.
Despite having to announce all day at the Goodguys Autocross on Sunday, we managed to snap a few more photos at the sun drenched Goodguys Summer Get Together before climbing in the Suburban for the 6...
Goodguys Summer Get Together Car Show And Action Photos From Pleasanton
Jun 01, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Goodguys Summer Get Together Car Show And Action Photos From Pleasanton
The Goodguys hometown of Pleasanton California is one of our favorite places to attend one of their shows. The Fairgrounds here are ultra bitchin, and the car shows here really cater to the guys who...
Action Gallery: The TS Performance Diesel Drags, Beech Bend Raceway – Crazy, Sideways, Smoking Diesel Action
Jun 01, 2014Brian Lohnes2
(Words and photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Question: What has enough torque to slow the Earth’s rotation, enough smoke to justify suspicion of an oil derrick fire, and enough turbine noise to...
Photos: Donut Derelicts Sunrise Cruise – Huntington Beach, California
Jun 01, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Photos: Donut Derelicts Sunrise Cruise – Huntington Beach, California
There are certain things worth getting up for and if you are a gearhead in southern California, one of those things is the famed Donut Derelicts cruise that happens at dawn every Saturday morning in...
Watch Steve Matusek Handle A No Parachute Situation In A Pro Mod Like A Boss
Jun 01, 2014Brian Lohnes5
There are few things more hairy than seeing a very fast drag race car head through the timing traps and then not seeing the parachutes blossom. While some tracks are longer than others, you know that...
Hot Rodding Icon And Speed Industry Titan “Speedy” Bill Smith Has Died At 84
Jun 01, 2014Brian Lohnes4
The world of hot rodding has lost one of its true icons as “Speedy” Bill Smith, the founder and owner of Speedway Motors has died at 84 years old. Smith’s passion and wisdom took a...
Tommy Johnson Jr Suffers A Boomer Of A Funny Car Explosion At Englishtown
Jun 01, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Tommy Johnson Jr. suffered a pretty nasty explosion while driving the Make A Wish funny car at the Toyota NHRA Summernationals yesterday. The car was on what seemed to be a nice, clean run when it...
Watch a Dirt Track Dwarf Car Become a Single Seat Stunt Plane – The Landing Sucks
May 31, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch a Dirt Track Dwarf Car Become a Single Seat Stunt Plane – The Landing Sucks
We got tipped off to this video by BS reader OldSchoolCamaro who is a member in a dirt track racing club that competes with dwarf cars. As you’ll see, these little motorcycle engine powered...












