Nitro Pits and Thrash Photos From NHRA Houston 2014 – Sweet, Sweet Nitro Parts!
May 01, 2014Brian Lohnes2
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that nitro burning top fuel engines use the hardest core speed parts we know of inside of them. Believe it or not, the...
Viva Las Vegas 2014 – The Coolest Pre-War Hot Rods At The Show
May 01, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Viva Las Vegas 2014 – The Coolest Pre-War Hot Rods At The Show
We’re back with some more cool cars that you have not seen yet from Viva Las Vegas 2014. This time we’re concentrating on pre-war hot rods. Some of them are street roddy and some of them...
The Fantastic Fords Continue – More Coverage From the 2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs
May 01, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on The Fantastic Fords Continue – More Coverage From the 2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re continuing with more coverage by Joe Grippo from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania. Beaver Springs is a perfect...
UPDATE Breaking News: Garlits Attempting To Break 200 MPH Barrier On Batteries RIGHT NOW!
Apr 30, 2014Chad Reynolds16
Update 3:30pm Eastern Time: On the third run with the dragster the power shut off unexpectedly at half track. The crew says that early numbers show that it would have easily been a 200 mph run, but a...
VIDEO: Gerry Marshall fends off a swarm of 2.0-liter cars in a Camaro at the 1971 Crystal Palace race
Apr 30, 2014Craig Fitzgerald3
A few weeks ago, Lohnes posted a great in-car video of Gerry Marshall muscling a Chevy 302-powered Vauxhall Firenza around a British road course. This two-part, 16 minute video has him dicing it out...
Flips, Flops, Saves, And More. Formula Off Road In Sweden Takes Crazy To A New Level
Apr 30, 2014Chad Reynolds1
We love Formula Off Road Racing because it’s awesome. Take some jillion foot tall pile of gravel, send high horsepower, light weight, 4 wheel drives with paddle tires on all 4 wheels and tell...
The Thrash Is On To Complete This Steel, 1967, Big Block, Four Speed Barracuda For Drag Week!
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes10
Arizona’s Robert Reynolds was one of the many people who answered the call we put out for Drag Week project builds the other day and like Gary Putnam’s car we featured yesterday, Reynolds...
BangShifter Creates Drag Week “Scholarship” And Awards It To First Time Competitor – This Is Super Cool
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes4
In one of the coolest things to come out of the BangShift forums since their inception in 2008, multi-time Drag Week racer Kerby Suhre decided that since he wasn’t going to be able to make the...
Win A Burnout Contest And Win An Atomic EFI – Kill Tires For EFI Because MSD Gets It!
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Win A Burnout Contest And Win An Atomic EFI – Kill Tires For EFI Because MSD Gets It!
We love it when companies understand their customers and MSD certainly does. We got a tip from our man Chuy over at the MSD bunker in El Paso and he told us that the company has teamed up with the...
This Music Video Has Awesome Drag Cars In It And Is Actually Pretty Neat
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes15
We have to thank ace BangShift photo contributor Benoit Pigeon for tipping us off to this cool music video for the song Summer by the artist Calvin Harris. While we’re not much for the tune...
Doorslammer Gallery: Pro Modifieds At The 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Doorslammer Gallery: Pro Modifieds At The 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals
(Photos By Charles Wickam) – Yesterday I told you how awesome the Pro Modified class was at the 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals and today we’re showing you through the great...
2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs Raceway – Historic, Cool, And Fast Fords Take Over The Strip
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes3
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it happened again. Jody Aberts, Doug Bender and Beaver Bob McCardle pulled off another fantastic weekend of Drag Racing and Car Show actioffeaturing...
Craigslist Find: This Fully Built Volvo Race Wagon, Despite Being A Volvo, Is Awesome And Cheap!
Apr 30, 2014Brian Lohnes20
There’s a big part of us that thinks something may be fishy with this ad for a totally cool 1995 Volvo 850 wagon that has been modified with upgraded suspension, a full cage, and apparently...
Gallery: Hundreds of Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Cool Pickups Invade Main Street Cruise-In in Cleveland, TN
Apr 30, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: Hundreds of Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Cool Pickups Invade Main Street Cruise-In in Cleveland, TN
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – This past weekend was a huge weekend for car shows, cruise ins and racing, and Tommy Lee Byrd double dipped by attending the Mitty vintage road race event...












