Jim Dunn Racing Is Bringing Back The Mooneyes Funny Car For The NHRA Finals In Pomona!
Every drag race fan, hot rodder, and racer loved the Mooneyes Funny Cars that were run by “Big” Jim Dunn. When I collected Die Cast Drag Cars, it was one of my first purchases. Well now...
Quarter Mile Foundation Announces Project 1320 Documentary To Be Produced By John Mullin
Some of you may not be familiar with the Quarter Mile Foundation, or Project 1320, if you don’t follow west coast and Nostalgia Drag Racing very closely but you should be. The Foundation, which...
This Japanese Jet Powered Tank Exhibition Machine Is Doing It HIlariously Wrong…But We Still Get A Kick Out Of It
Japan: we’re back for the second time this week with a video from a drag racing event on the island nation. While we have never personally visited Japan, through mediums like the internet and...
The Parting Shift: In Cab Aerobics Shifting a Twin Stick Kenworth
Truck driving is a tough job. There’s the need to be safe to rack up hundreds of thousand and even millions of accident free miles, the pressures of living on the road and the ever inflating...
Help Us Find This Utterly Bitchin’ Corvette – Formerly Owned By Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer – Is It Still Around? Is It Lost To History? Help!
We need your help to find one of the coolest custom Corvettes ever built. This was the machine of Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer the well known painter, customizer, and hot rodder from NY....
Drag Battle: Tanner Foust’s World RallyCross Fiesta Versus Roy Hill’s 5.0L Supercharged Cobra Jet Mustang…Who Wins? (Video)
We wish that we had Ford Racing’s video production budget because we’d be pulling guys like Roy Hill and Tanner Foust together for fun like they do! We don’t know who to credit, but...
Garlits Museum’s 2014 International Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced
(Courtesy of Darr Hawthorne) International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2014 announced The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, housed at the famed Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing...
Ride Along In The World’s Quickest GTR As It Goes 7.87/187 At Santa Pod – The Driver Is Working HARD!
While we’re certainly not known as guys who spend a lot of time talking about Nissan GTRs here at BangShift, we are guys who get impressed by amazingly quick and fast drag strip passes,...
Barnstormin’ – You Can’t Put The VHT Back In The Barrel (Or The PJ1)
Yesterday, I ran a blog item showing a couple of runs being made by top fuel dragsters in Japan. What’s interesting about drag racing in Japan is that they do not believe in preparing their...
Video: Harry And Daniel Davies Share An Epic Road Trip In Bill Burnhams “Old Blue” Roadster
The guys at ShareTheDrive.com have shared an epic one with us. This video shows Harry and Daniel Davies accounts of their father and son roadtrip behind the wheel of Bill Burnham’s “Old...
Triumph Video: Leon Smith And The Epic Thump Truck Kenworth Bust Into The 13s! 10 Tons and A Stick Shift!
It has been an elusive chase, but Leon Smith the owner and driver of the law dropping Kenworth dump truck that we named the “Thump Truck” has finally collected his first 13-second time...
Video: A 395 MPH Streamliner Ride Along That Is Goes Every Which Way But Straight At Bonneville
Bob Dalton is a bad ass. Not only because he brought a Bill E Badass streamliner to Bonneville this year, but because he and a kick ass group of racers and hot rodders built the entire thing...
BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Jacked Up Project Car You Have Ever Brought Home?
Obviously, one of the most fun parts of his hobby is searching, finding, and retrieving projects to wrench on. Both Chad and I prefer vehicles that are not complete and total wrecks that may need...
PowerShift LIVE: POSTPONED FOR HALLOWEEN! Will Return Nightly From SEMA Next Week!
Yes folks Brian and I are taking the night off in order to spend some time with the kiddos. With SEMA around this time each year, it’s uncommon for us to be home during Halloween, so we are...
