Watch Dario Franchitti’s Massive Houston Wreck That Broke His Back And Sent 13 Fans To The Hospital
When race cars with open wheels get together at high speeds, nothing good comes of it and sometimes the end result is literally horrifying. Such was the car last weekend in Houston where IndyCar ace...
Craigslist Find: A Camper Built From A 1971 Chevy Kingswood Station Wagon – Somewhere Chad’s Head Is Going To Explode!
I wish that I could claim the honor of having found this wild creation, but those accolades are reserved for Mike Casella as he was the dude that shipped me the link. I cannot imagine what is running...
Photos: Carlisle Swap Meet Fall 2013, The Season Ender Proves To Be As Bitchin As The Rest
(Photos by Joe Grippo) Carlisle Pennsylvania is considered by many to be the Mecca of all car swap meet locations. Out here in SoCal, we think we’ve got the great swap meet market pretty well...
Gallery: Truckin’ For Kids Show, Shine, and Drag Race, Irwindale, California – Big Rigs Getting It Done
(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The 33rd Annual Truckin’ for Kids Show and Drags was held again this year at the Irwindale Event Center engulfing the Irwindale Dragstrip and pits...
BangShift Question Of The Day: WHAT CAR WOULD YOU WANT TO BE STRAPPED TO FOR YOUR FUNERAL PARADE?
Remember when ‘Lil Kim Jong-il was strapped to the roof of a 1976 Lincoln in his coffin like the grandmother in National Lampoon’s Vacation? That got us to thinking which old hunk of...
Two Long Running Ohio Drag Strips For Sale – Dragway 42 And Marion County International Raceway Need New Owners!
Living in a state with no operating drag strips (stupid Massachusetts) it is nearly unfathomable to me how many operating strips there are in places like Ohio. Adding to that wonder is the fact that...
eBay Find: The Famous Baldwin-Motion Manx SR Is For Sale! Drag Race and VW History! Who Knew That It Existed Still?!
We’re usually oogling pro street cars or some sort of weirdo monster truck in our eBay finds but this one has actual killer history behind it. Firstly, who knows what a Manx SR is? Totally...
Rodders Journal Revival – Our Last Blast of Awesome Hot Rods and Kustoms!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – This is our final photo dispatch from the 2013 Rodders Journal Revival and it is the strongest set of photos we have showed you from the event. If you have been living...
“Wild Bill” Alexander – Great Front Engine Top Fueler Of The 1960s and 1990s Has Died
“Wild Bill” Alexander who had one of the more interesting driving careers in drag racing history has died. Alexander was a noted 1960s top fuel driver who departed the sport as an active...
Action Gallery: Wheels Up Coolness From The 2013 NHRA Jegs SportsNationals – Columbus, Ohio
(Photos by Chris Mohring) – The SportsNationals events that the NHRA holds have an interesting history. They were part of the program in the 1970s and early 1980s and then they kind of...
IHRA Changes Format: 2014 Season Will Be Made Up Of Traditional National Events – Pro Classes Not Named Yet
The whispers we have been hearing were true. The IHRA is returning to a traditional style format (with some sort of small twist apparently) for the 2014 season. Their events will be called...
Carnage Photos: One Dead Hemi Courtesy of Nitro, A Connecting Rod Failure, And Mark Rebilas
(Photos by Mark Rebilas) -We’ve been on a roll lately with some wild photos of destroyed engines and it was only a matter of time until we would run one that was killed by the ultimate liquid...
The Parting Shift: Studebaker Drag Racing Edition
This week’s Parting Shift takes us to a killer little drag strip in Indiana called Brown County Dragway. It has operated since the 1950s, and by the looks of the video it has changed little...
Crazed Video: A Motorcycle Racer Drags His Knee and Then His Head Without Crashing!
We know jack squat about motorcycle road racing other than what we have observed on television. Our in-depth analysis is that the machines defy all logic with their ability to lay nearly flat and...
