Great News: Arizona’s Former Firebird International Raceway Will Reopen In Sept As Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park
The resurrection of Arizona’s premier racing facility will be complete by the end of the summer of 2013. ArizonaAutoScene.com is reporting that the track is going through some renovations and...
Video Insanity: A Top Dragster Blowover Wheelstand You Will Have To See To Believe
When Mark Walter, with MotormaniaTV, sent us the link to this one on Friday after he recorded this at the X-DRL Gateway Shootout, we were mesmerized. After all, it’s not very often that you see...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Do You Secretly Want, But Wouldn’t Tell Your Buddies About?
After spending the weekend watching cool Nostalgia Drag Cars running down the famed 1320 at Beech Bend Raceway, and talking about Olds Powered Slingshot Dragsters, Gassers, Boats, and More, it became...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Pedal To The Metal” Kazzer (2002) We Suck For Not Doing This One Sooner
With a Weiand 6-71 Blower being the very first image you see in Kazzer’s video for “Pedal to the Metal”, we totally should have run this already as a BangShift Daily Tune Up. The...
2013 LA Roadster Show – We Were There And The Cars Ruled!
The LA Roadster Show is going on this weekend and we’re there….and we’re also in Bowling Green at the NHRA Holley National Hot Rod Reunion. How? Because we freaking rule....
LIVE: X-DRL Extreme Gateway Showdown
Watch LIVE VIDEO here on Bang Shift!! – The X-DRL will be showcased in a live, high-quality stream that will capture every qualifying run and elimination matchup, and all of it will be free and...
Must Wear Summer Apparel From American Powertrain: The New Six Speed Six Pack Shirt Only $15!
We love car shirts, which is why our wives hate them so much. But what do they know about fashion? Clearly nothing, because nothing looks better spread across our gut than a cool automotive design....
eBay Find: Five Complete GMC V12 Engines – 702ci A Piece! Rare and Huge
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know that these things are basically two V6 engines hitched together (in a common block) and that they are lazy and aren’t really all that hot rod-able. Used in firetrucks,...
New Product Preview: Westside Performance’s ModuSaver – A Speed Shop Designed Solution To Save Your Automatic Transmission Modulator Under Boost!
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – It’s no secret that we here at BangShift have a soft spot for the few remaining speed shops that dot this country. They remind of us of a time when...
SCTA El Mirage Land Speed Photos Galore: The June Meet Was A Big One!
The SCTA has been running like gangbusters at El Mirage this year, with great weather and killer track conditions that mean really good records. Hell, the track was so good this past weekend we have...
Barnstormin’: Mangled Memories
Every hot rodder seems to do it. I know I do and now I know Art Arfons did as well. We all hang on to blown up, busted, or otherwise destroyed parts and pieces of cars that we used to ow or race, or...
ADRL Action Photos: Pro Drag Radial, Pro Extreme, Pro Mod, Pro Nitrous, And More!
This past weekend was a huge event for the ADRL and BangShift.com as we brought you FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO of every run at the ADRL U.S. Drag VI presented by Simply Phones, which had the largest...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Body Style Gasser?
With our friends the Geezer Gassers once again showing the world a good time at this weekend’s Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, it got us thinking. What body style gasser would we build if we...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Truckin” The Grateful Dead (1970) “What a long, strange trip it’s been”
This is a first folks. The Dead on BangShift.com. Wow, this might be as big a deal as this song being listed as a National Treasure by the Library of Congress in 1997. Ahhh, our tax dollars at work,...
