Project Violent Valiant Update: The Valiant’s Face Gets Chopped Off And Cage Building Continues
Feb 11, 2014Brian Lohnes5
Project Violent Valiant is soldiering along at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle these days despite the crushing forces of winter trying to freeze half of the country to death. Kevin Tully is keeping warm by...
eBay Find: The Most Second Gen, 2nd Gen Camaro In The World
Feb 11, 2014Brian Lohnes26
There was a time when this Camaro ruled the streets of whatever city or town it was built in. Ok, maybe that’s not true because it doesn’t appear that the car was ever driven all that...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Music Do You Listen To When Wrenching On Your Vehicles?
Feb 11, 2014Dave Nutting35
Driving home today, I realized that the majority of my day’s activities involves listening to music, whether it’s on the commute to and from work, slogging through some debugging and...
2014 NHRA Winternationals – Photos From The Explosive Opening Weekend Of The 2014 NHRA Season
Feb 11, 2014Brian Lohnes5
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – Love him or hate him, 16-time nitro funny car Champion John Force isn’t going anywhere, except down the dragstrip, 1,000...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Winter Car Crash – Mystery, Intrigue, and Public Urination
Feb 11, 2014Brian Lohnes16
(Unknown Parts Counter Guy is our new series written by an actual parts counter guy at a large chain auto parts store. He’s writing anonymously so his ass doesn’t get fired. If you missed...
Drag Week 2014: All The Dates, All The Tracks, All The Info You Want And Need – Photos From The Original 2005 Event HERE!
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes4
So the news broke on Saturday about what race tracks and what dates that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014 would be happening at and on. I happened to be in the car when that news came out traveling...
The Movies of the 1960s and 1970s Were an Automotive Goldmine, and Not Just in the Movies You Know
Feb 10, 2014Craig Fitzgerald9
These days — especially in places where it snows — it’s rare to see someone driving around in a modern Challenger or Camaro SS as a daily driver. Most of the time, those cars will...
A Video Peek At The Jet Hot Double Down Roadster From Full Hot Rods
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes1
See if you can follow us on this one. We came across this video made by the Eastwood company that features the Double Down Ford roadster being built by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods for the Jet-Hot...
BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Had To Build A Hot Rod SUV, What Would You Build?
Feb 10, 2014Dave Nutting24
Not surprisingly, today’s BangShift Question Of The Day came into being thanks to a particularly oddball thought that I had while driving past the Mitsubishi Outlander in my neighbor’s...
Rough Weekend For Tony and Cruz Pedregon At Pomona – Fire And Explosion Make For Expensive Outing
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes1
(Images from ESPN3 live stream) – It was an exciting and expensive weekend for both Cruz and Tony Pedregon as the brothers experienced some hairy mechanical failures during the freshly...
Rocket Revival: 2014 Looks Like The Year Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets Will Return To US Strips In Force
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes21
Maybe we can mark November of 2013 as the rough date that the revival of hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles on drag strips began. It was in November that the noted French rocket motorcycle rider Eric...
Someone In Iowa Is Daily Driving A 1980 Bradley Electric GT II – We Have Photo Proof
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes9
BangShift reader and Iowa native Chris Johnson gets the gold star of the day for whipping his cell phone out and blasting photos of this amazingly rare and totally freakish 1980 Bradley Electric GT...
Drag Art: A Fantastic High Definition Video Highlighting The Nitro Drivers Of Don Schumacher Racing
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes1
During the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up, Chad and I weren’t the only two guys filming the action from above the track. A film crew from Oakley was there to gather footage for a series of upcoming...
Craigslist Find: This 1970 ‘Cuda Packs A Hemi, Cool Old Race Paint, And Some Giant Rear Slicks
Feb 10, 2014Brian Lohnes13
Thanks to Chris Chenlo, we have this totally sweet ‘Cuda to show you that is currently for sale on Craigslist. The car has apparently been for sale for some time as we did some rooting around...












