Gallery: The 57th Annual Sycamore, Illinois Threshing Bee – Huge Engines, Cool Tractors, BangShifty Stuff Galore!
(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – This year was the 57th annual Threshing Bee put on by the Northern Illinois Steam Power Club. It’s held on the Taylor Marshall Farm north of Sycamore,...
BangShift Question of the Day: Are You a Driver or a Crew Chief?
The racing world is full of interesting characters on both sides of the coin. From the publicity loving drivers to the crew chiefs who’d prefer that they dealt with dynos and data only. There...
Video: An Incredible Look At Art Arfons Quest For The LSR Record In The 1960s – Ultra Rare Interviews, Period Footage, Must See!
With Bonneville Speed Week nearing its end tomorrow, I’m still living on a salt high from our time at the event. As such I wanted to share one of the coolest Bonneville and land speed racing...
Wild Video: A History Of Insane Rally Crashes At WRC Finland From The 1980s To Today!
I’ve begun wading through all the emails and notes we received on the tip line over the last week since Chad and I have been AWOL in Bonneville and there’s some real gold in this mine!...
Freaky or Fun? An Edsel Speedster From Bonneville Speed Week 2013
If this car doesn’t support the notion of, “you never know what the hell you’re going to see at Bonneville” than nothing really does. While certainly not a racing vehicle,...
The Underdogs: Can They Knock Out The Speed Demon? Or Will They Be It’s Next Victim?
We’ve already discussed the Battle Royale that was/is expected between the Poteet and Main Speed Demon and the Team Vesco Turbinator. What we haven’t told you is that there are two...
The SCOOP: The Info On EVERY Car Running For A Record Today And The Newest Minted SCTA Record Holders -Click Here!
Alrighty! By the time most of you have read this, record runs will have been made at Bonneville on Wednesday. If anything insane happened, trust us, we’d have told you about it already! As the...
Bonneville Speed Week 2013 – Tuesday Morning Sunrise Impound And Qualifier Convoy Gallery
This morning was my last at SCTA Bonneville Speed Week 2013. As I write this, I am riding with a buddy back to the LA area to catch a plane home in the morning. I made sure to get one last sunrise...
This Is Bonneville: Another Awesome “Half A Motor” – This Time It Is A Windsor Ford!
Yesterday we showed you a bitchin’ “half a hemi” that was making a Bonneville lakester fly down the salt with aplomb. We reveled in the fact that the team was using a full V8 hemi...
Bonneville Speed Week 2013: A New Collection Of Race Car, Truck, and Killer Hot Rod Photos!
The interesting thing about SCTA Bonneville Speed Week is that cars come and go during the entire length of the event. Since tech opened late last week, race cars have been showing up from all...
Gallery: The Monday Sunrise Thrash Scene At Bonneville Impound – Killer Cars And Tow Rigs!
By far our favorite ritual here at Bonneville Speed Week 2013 has been showing up at the crack of dawn to watch teams prep their cars for record runs to start the day. With a one hour window to...
Gallery: More Bitchin’ Hot Rods, Racers, and Just Plain neat Stuff From Sunday On The Salt
Bonneville Speed Week 2013 is officially in full swing. The pits are a constant buzz of cars coming and going to make runs, awesome old hot rod traffic, push/tow trucks at work, and friends hanging...
Bonneville Speed Week 2013: The Streamliner War (That Wasn’t?) – A Look At Speed Demon And Turbinator
Coming in to Bonneville Speed Week 2013, we were hoping that a real barn burning streamliner war was going to break out among some of the machines rumored to be showing up. The two...
Bonneville 200 MPH Club Celebrates 60th Birthday At Speed Week 2013
2013 not only marks the 65th running of the Bonneville Nationals and Speed Week, but also the 60th Birthday of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club. It’s one of the most prestigious and difficult clubs...
