Two Time AHRA Pro Stock Champion Ken Dondero Has Died – Noted Driver For Grumpy Jenkins
UPDATE: Our friend Dave Wallace Jr. knew Ken Dondero, and sent out an email to all of his friends that included Ken’s obituary and words written by Dave himself. After reading the words written...
Webster Race Engineering In England Is Building An Awesome Bentley Drag Car
…and now for something completely different. How awesome is this build coming from the shop of Webster Race Engineering who are the crew responsible for brining other notable cars like Andy...
Action Video: Watch Jimmie Lynch Torture A 1936 Plymouth!
When it comes to “Best job to talk about at a party”, stunt driver must rank pretty far up the list. Sure, being an astronaut would take the cake and being a doctor isn’t shabby by any means,...
eBay Find: In 1987 This Very Trick And Largely Stock 1973 Blazer Won Its Class At The Baja 1000
Some of you will immediately jump ugly at the prospect of calling a 1973 Blazer with a 500ci Cadillac engine and other modifications “largely stock” but let’s really be honest here....
A Peek Behind The Curtain At DMC Racing – Cool Builds In Progress!
Last week we stopped into DMC Racing in Halifx, Massachusetts to hang out and see what was new and exciting at the shop. We were not let down by what we found, which was a veritable raft of...
2014 PRO Winter Warm Up – All Of Our Photos – Pits, Flaming Nitro Action!
Nitro teams were attacking the famed quarter mile at Palm Beach International Raceway in West Palm Beach, Florida with zeal on Thursday as the week long NHRA nitro pre season testing session moved...
Bitchin’ Video: Watch a Seriously Bad Ass 1973 Camaro Attack the Autocross
So in this video we have a hood view of Brian Hobaugh’s gnarly sounding 1973 Camaro attacking the autocross. Brian’s orange screamer is well known and has gotten lots of ink in magazines...
Great Gasser And Funny Car Race Jim “Fireball” Shores Has Died At 86 Years Old
A tough weekend for drag racing legends for sure as Ken Dondero passed away and now news comes in that gasser and funny car great Jim Shores has died. Shores was the wrenching half of the famed...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The World War 1 Russian Lebedenko Tank
This thing is by far the weirdest and possibly most massive self-propelled land vehicle we’ve ever heard of. Built by a Russian engineer as the ultimate weapon for use in WWI, it ended up as a...
Video: “Car Fighting” Video Is Unreal
Have you ever watched a video where something you love is destroyed? You know that you shouldn’t watch, but you can’t peel your eyes away from the screen until it’s over? Maybe you...
A Photo From The Lohnes Archive: An Awesome Road Racing Malibu
SCCA racing gets unfairly labeled as being high brow and clean handed. I can attest as a low brow person who was normally up to his neck in fluids leaking from a VW Rabbit that it’s totally...
Video: Super Bitchin 1966 Ford F100 Pre-Runner Truck Catching Air At The Dunes
We always love jumping videos around here, and have also been getting into the whole pre-runner vibe while working on the $200 Hauler so when we can across this cool video from MOTOLife we had to run...
REPLAY: BANGSHIFT 2014 PRO WINTER WARM-UP BROADCAST
To answer the most popular question that we have received at BangShift world HQ over the last two weeks….YES we will be live broadcasting the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach...
The RideTech Barrett-Jackson Adventure Continues….The Day Three Report With Photos Here!
Bret Voelkel of RideTech has been filing daily dispatches from the 2014 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. He’s there to sell his wife Sharon’s Pontiac GTO convertible along with his...
