Land Speed Video: Something Evil This Way Comes – A Look Back At Poteet And Main’s 2012 Conquering Season
Mar 27, 2013Brian Lohnes1
The Poteet and Main Speed Demon is one of the great land speed race cars of our time. The machine has steadily and methodically gotten better ad fast each year and is now the definitive title holder...
Hot Rod Homecoming 2013: Magazine Featured Hot Rods, Specials, and Customs!
Mar 27, 2013Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – It didn’t take long after the 1948 launch of Hot Rod Magazine for readers the country over to crave the day they’d see their ride in print. From the...
eBay Find: A 1200hp Naturally Aspirated Olds DRCE Engine That Was Supposed To Power A Racing Plane – Bombproof Build!
Mar 27, 2013Brian Lohnes7
Sometimes rule changes can lead to the nixing of even the best laid plans in racing. Take this eBay listing for example. For sale is an Olds DRCE (Drag Race Competition Engine) that screams out...
Dyno Video: A Screaming 10,000-RPM Ripsaw Motor From Hell – Chevy SB2 Goodness!
Mar 27, 2013Brian Lohnes1
While the 9,000 rev dyno pull we showed you the other day was really neat, this 10,000 rpm scream to the horsepower heavens is even cooler. The engine on the pump is a 355ci SB2 style Chevy and it...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Chevy Shutdown – The Jaguars (Year Unknown)
Mar 27, 2013Brian Lohnes3
Here a fun little obscure song from the 1960s that sounds like a mash up of a couple different well known car songs. Overall the Jaguars song Chevy Shut Down sounds like the Beach Boys song Shut Down...
Video: Hot Rod Homecoming Video From The “Where They Raced” Video Crew
Mar 26, 2013Chad Reynolds1
Harry and the gang from “Where They Raced” keep on putting up great videos explaining the history of auto racing in Southern California. Specifically Los Angeles in fact. The videos are...
Barnstormin’: Dreaming Big, Scheming Bigger, and Why I Am Hell Bent On Trying To Race A ChumpTruck In 2014
Mar 26, 2013Brian Lohnes5
So this is going to come as a shock to no one, but I am completely and utterly consumed with the idea of racing a truck in the 2014 ChumpTruck series. I am not looking for more than one race and my...
$200 Hauler Project Update: Will Bolt Ons From MSD, Spectre, and E3 Get Us More Power Than Buford!
Mar 26, 2013Chad Reynolds9
In our never ending quest for putting together a nice, comfortable, and capable tow rig, without spending piles of cash, and without having a new car payment, we continue to thrash on the $200 Hauler...
The 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming – Race Cars! Fuel Altereds, Sprint Cars, Stock Cars
Mar 26, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on The 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming – Race Cars! Fuel Altereds, Sprint Cars, Stock Cars
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we showed you the cool stuff outside of the buildings at the Pomona Fairplex at the 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming car show. Today we’re taking you inside...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Classic Or Modern? Which Is Your Favorite Kind Of Wheel?
Mar 26, 2013Chad Reynolds23
Almost a year ago Brian wrote a BangShift Question of the Day that asked “What’s The Coolest Wheel Ever?”. The results are what most of us would expect, and include all the...
Massive Shop Tour Gallery: The Hot Rod Barn – Morris, Illinois – Muscle Car Restorations, Drag Builds, Killer Shop!
Mar 26, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Massive Shop Tour Gallery: The Hot Rod Barn – Morris, Illinois – Muscle Car Restorations, Drag Builds, Killer Shop!
(By Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Just west of Morris, Il. on Interstate 80 is what looks like an old Stuckeys. And with good reason, it was an old Stuckeys. Instead of Pecan Log Rolls and...
Incredible Video: Watch The Grave Digger Monster Truck Leap and Land Directly On The Turtled Maximum Destruction Truck and Then Jump Over It!
Mar 26, 2013Brian Lohnes1
Mock me if you wish, but damn do I love me some modern monster truck action. This video is proof of the capability that these amazing machines have. The trucks can fly and articulate like desert...
Amazing eBay Find: A Real Deal 1965 Fiberglass Trends Cheetah With Its Original Chassis! Drag Cheetah Greatness!
Mar 26, 2013Brian Lohnes2
Our love for the short lived and even shorter produced Bill Thomas Cheetah race car is pretty well known. It was a bit of a back door project that Chevrolet was helping to fund in order to come up...
Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!
Mar 26, 2013Brian Lohnes20
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad...












