NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Returns To ESPN2 For 2013
The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, aka NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing, will once again be televised on ESPN2 this year. Featuring NHRA Top Alcohol Dragsters and Funny Cars, along with highlights from...
Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!
I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following....
Video: A Hairy Big Block Powered 1976 Chevelle Hangs The Tail And Smokes The Tires On The Edge Of The Arctic Circle
BangShifter Arild Guldbrandsen hails from Norway and he’s had the same 1976 Chevelle for going on 20 years now. Over the time he has had the car, Arild has installed any number of engine combos...
Dead Drag Strip File: The Mysterious And Overgrown Footprint Of Milton Speedway – Milton, Vermont
So I am a little bit of an obsessive guy. As soon as Greg Rourke’s story on the long lost Seneca Drag Strip ran I immediately went into dead New England dragstrip mode. Yesterday I told you...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Girls In Love – Loverboy (1983)
BangShift reader Vinni DeLuca tipped us off to this video starring a hot rod Ford coupe and a dreamy blonde, oh and the guys from Loverboy as well. Their 1983 tune Hot Girls In Love was a hit for the...
LIVE TONIGHT: PowerShift With Chad and Brian – Our WEEKLY Live Show Is BACK! 9PM Easterm – 6PM Pacific!
After a one week break to handle some off-air stuff, we’re back and better than ever with a fresh new episode of PowerShift our weekly romp through the worlds of racing, motorsports,...
Wreckage Video: A Flat Track Motorcycle Crash That Sends Riders Flying And Snaps A Bike In Two
First off, everyone involved in this awful crash is OK and has since returned to racing. We lead with that because when you see this clip from the Lucas Oil flat track motorcycle race on the famed...
eBay Find: An Absolutely Perfect 1955 Studebaker Three Quarter Ton Pickup – Neat As Hell!
Studebaker trucks don’t get the due that they deserve. The trucks were well styled, powered by strong, reliable engines, and were built as tough as any other truck line in the country. From...
NOS Releases Dry Pro Race Fogger Systems For EFI Equipped Engines
Nitrous has been hot rodding’s best friend for a long, long time and as the hot rods have advanced and evolved so have the nitrous systems that feed that horsepower making gas into their guts....
Hellacious Burnout Video: A Tire Smoldering 330-Foot Smoker From Tony Boss Bynes
There was a time when showmanship was a very large part of the deal in drag racing. From paint to wild crew uniforms, to back up girls with all kinds of appendages hanging out in the breeze, and...
Cool Or Creepy: Retro Body Kits For Chevy Trucks
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Ok, so as of late I have been pretty harsh about body kits and that type of stuff. Probably too harsh, but that’s over now. Greg Rourke sent in a couple of...
Dead Drag Strip File: The Quiet Remains Of Charlestown Dragway – Charlestown, Rhode Island
Greg Rourke’s story about the long lost Seneca Drag Strip in Illinois jolted my memory about some photos I took early this winter at the site of one of New England’s earliest drag strips,...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Little Honda – The Hondells (1965)
I know what you’re thinking, “What is it with Lohnes and all the weirdo old songs?” Frankly, I have no good answer to that other than the fact that these tunes are super listenable,...
