Big News: SEMA Purchases PRI Show!
Some breaking industry news this afternoon as SEMA has purchased the Performance Racing Industry show and will take over its operation starting this year. The PRI show, for those of you unaware, is...
Watch a Nitrous Pop Blow the Scoop Off of a Mustang Drag Race Car and Then Kill the Roof Camera!
As you know, we’re easily entertained around here, so when we saw this video of a Mustang suffering a nitrous backfire at Houston Motorsports Park we wanted to share it. While this certainly...
Question of the Day: What is the Most Under Appreciated Platform to Build a Hot Rod Off Of?
Don Garlits had a great line back in the 1960s. He said that when he told people he was a professional drag racer, they looked at him in the same way they look at a kid who asked for a pony and...
Watch a Fuel Altered Launch Like a Moon Rocket When the Wheelie Bar Breaks at Santa Pod
While we respect and admire racers that run in classes where wheelie bars are outlawed, there are lots of cars that really need them. Among those cars that need wheelie bars to keep from becoming low...
eBay Find: An Original 354ci Hemi Powered 1959 Dodge D700 Rig – Former Navy Truck!
We were tipped off to this totally awesome ex-Navy big rig on eBay by a well meaning BangShift reader. The problem is that his tip has caused loss of sleep, uncontrolled sweating, dry mouth, and...
Jeff Teuton Bringing Two Mopars to ADRL Houston for SuperCar Showdown – One Equipped With V10 Rumored to be Factory 850hp Drag Race Engine
The hits just keep on coming with respect to the ADRL’s new SuperCar Showdown category. We’ve been unabashed fans of this whole thing since the initial announcement and we continue to be...
Snake and Mongoose Biopic To Be made – Lead Actors Chosen to Fill Roles of Prudhomme and McEwen
There are a bunch of cool racing movies that are in the production pipe coming from Hollywood. Between the move about Caswell, the James Hunt picture, and the 1966 24 Hours of LeMans based Go Like...
Watch Denver Schutz’s High Speed March Meet Wall-Banger From the Top End – Wild Footage!
Denver Schutz’s high speed encounter with the wall at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield during the March Meet sure was scary. We ran a killer sequence of photos from the incident here on the blog,...
Cool New Tool From TCI: Adapter Converts Most Normal Floor Jacks Into Transmission Jacks
We’re admittedly clumsy. This normally translates itself into minor bloodshed in the shop or worse than that broken or mangled stuff. Have pulled and swapped more than a few transmissions in...
Caption These Photos: Scrub-a-dub-dub A Sprint Car in the Tub
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re thinking about renaming our Texas based photographer Charles Wickam “ironman” after hearing his story of a 17-hour BangShifty Saturday. Over...
Chad Head Named Winner of March Meet After Boychuck Disqualified – Top Fuel Finalist Rick White Also DQ’d
In shocking news that hit the wires late last week, Tim Boychuck who was awarded the Wally for winning the March Meet was disqualified after his fuel pump was found to be outside of the class specs....
Chris Holbook Becomes First Entry For ADRL SuperCar Showdown Class – Will Campaign Cobra Jet
We thought that some heavies would enter the ADRL SuperCar Showdown but we didn’t know that one would be the first man to officially enter the class! Michigander Chris Holbrook, a former IHRA...
Car Feature Re-Run: An Original-Owner 1987 Buick GNX
Gary and Pam Beineke have a stable of awesome cars. We invaded their privacy to shoot and video several cars a couple of years ago and we featured those cars a while back. Most of the cars in their...
Ford Announces Base Pricing of 2013 GT500 – Shockingly Matches the Camaro ZL1
Ford has released the base pricing for the 2013 Mustang GT500 and the 200+ mph, 650hp beast will available to the general public for the base price of $54,995. While that is not chump change,...
