Big News!!! Mike Galimi, One Of The Coolest Dudes In The Racing Media, Is Now Race Pages Editor
I met Mike Galimi in a dive bar near Milan Dragway a few years ago now and, despite his Yankee accent, thought he was pretty cool dude from the get go. He knew how to drink, played pool okay, and...
Easy Bolt-In For Chevy II: American Powertrain’s New Trans Swap Crossmember Makes It Simple
The dudes at American Powertrain just keep coming up with more and more cool products. And since we’re in the middle of building an engine for a ’66 Chevy II, we thought this one was...
Chadmouth: More Travel Woes… Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Fly…
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a Chadmouth titled “Travel Rookies Suck”, that got a lot of interest and resulted in lots of comments, emails, and phone calls. If you didn’t catch...
Ebay Find: All Fiberglass ’69 Camaro On A G-Body Chassis… Weird? Cool? Hmmmmm
Scott Payton, one of the geeks that keeps BangShift.com up and running on the web, sent us this one yesterday and we have to say it shocked us. We had never heard of Corbin Rods all fiberglass...
Another Test of Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer and Today’s Challenge!
Once again, there was no stumping the BangShift readership as Jim Forbes knocked it out of the park yesterday nailing the little four cylinder block we showed as an old Ford ‘banger out of a...
Drag Gallery: COPO Camaros and Mustang Cobra Jets At The 2012 Dutch Classic
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the wheelstands and today we’re going to bring you some of the most modern muscle that attacked the strip at Maple Grove last weekend...
Drag Gallery: The Atlanta Dragway $10,000 Nostalgia Race – Gassers, Diggers, and Loads of Great Stuff!
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Another weekend down, and another nostalgia drag race is in the books. This time, it’s the Atlanta $10,000 race, held at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce,...
Buford Update: Our 9C1 Caprice Gets Real With Mickey Thompson Tires and Cragar Wheels
(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Last we left you, Project Buford T Justice was sitting on all four tires suspended by a complete Hotchkis Sport Suspension system and some hardcore...
Roadside Find: Whit Bazemore’s 1993 Fast Orange Dodge Daytona NHRA Nitro Funny Car Body!
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – BangShift contributor, Tommy Lee Byrd, took the scenic route to Atlanta Dragway this weekend and stumbled upon a rare sight—a dilapidated funny car...
Video: First 6-Second LS Powered Drag Radial Pass Ever
Mark Carlyle put the smack down at the LSX Shootout at Lucas Oil Raceway Park and ran the very first 6-second Drag Radial pass by an LS Powered car in his super bitchin Corvette. The team has been...
Event Coverage: Lucas Oil Raceway Hosts NMCA World Street Nationals And LSX Shootout
Indy is one of the most iconic dragstrips in the country, and when the NMCA rolled in for the LSX Shootout and World Street Finals this past weekend, the place was packed with bitchin big and small...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer And A New Challenge!
Yesterday I threw a tough one out there in this string of parts identification blog items. Basically I gave you two photos of an interesting looking engine block and asked you to identify it. Well...
Video: Watch Leon Smith And His Hot Rod Kenworth Take On The Toughest Canadian Big Rig Drag Racers Yet!
We can’t get enough of the balls out Canadian big rig drag racing scene, especially when it involves our favorite participant Leon Smith and his hot rod Kenworth dump truck. Sure it seems a wee...
Dead Guys, Dead Brands, Legendary Cars, and Coolness From The 1964 NY International Auto Show Program
Like today, companies and car manufacturers employed many different techniques in their ads back in the 1960s. The collection below, culled like so many others before it from the 1964 NY...
