Carnage Video: A Huge Mud Truck Fails Badly at a Hill and Hole Event
While we’ve never attended a “hill and hole” mud race, we’ve watched endless videos of them and revel in the mechanically diabolical competition. If you have never heard of...
BangShift Question of the Day: What are You Most Interested in Seeing Covered at SEMA 2011?
We begin our week long assault on the 2011 SEMA show today. Throughout the week we’ll be bringing you the latest offerings from the high performance aftermarket, photos of all the cool junk in...
eBay Find: A Screaming Yellow Former SEMA Show Truck
Since SEMA is happening this week, and our coverage of the huge by large show begins later today, we thought it would be interesting to troll eBay for former SEMA display vehicles. There are always...
The Parting Shift: Doing the Eighth Mile Boogie in a Gear Jamming 1978 Malibu
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re back with the Parting Shift. This week we take you to the lush greenery of Boiling Springs, PA and Quarter Aces Drag-o-Way. This is a...
Pioneering Drag Racer Bobby Langley Passes
Texan Bobby Langley, one of drag racing’s original traveling racers and a true pioneer of the sport, passed away last week at the age of 79. His career began in the mid 1950s and carried on...
Drag Video: A Day in the Life of Carl Tasca and his Cobra Jet(s)
In a scant few days we will be bringing your the low down on the Camaro drag package car from SEMA. That car will provide the first real competition for the Ford Mustang Cobra Jets that have been...
What was the Best or Coolest Gearhead Thing You Did This Season?
As I write this, snow is falling in various parts of Massachusetts, BangShift readers in Texas have the white death on the ground, and the average temperature is dropping like a lawn dart. With those...
Great Read: A Detailed Look at the Factors That Led Up to Dan Wheldon’s Untimely Death
Dan Wheldon’s death at the IndyCar season finale raised many questions about virtually every aspect of IndyCar racing. Were the cars safe? Was the idea to load the field up with cars safe? Was...
Grassroots Drag Racing Scores Another Win in Canada – Local Gov’t Approves Airport Event in 2012
Earlier this month the Municipal Council of Wawa, Ontario, Canada approved a plan to hold a drag racing event at the Wawa Airport in 2012. This is a great thing for drag racers and hot rodders in the...
Killer Car: A Road Race Spec 1955 Chevy
We’ve seen old school stock car 1955 Chevys. We’ve seen drag race 1955 Chevys. What we have not seen is a full-on, tube chassis, modern spec road race 1955 Chevy, that is until now. We...
Worst of SEMA: A Preemptive Strike
So each year that we cover the SEMA show, we compile a “worst of” list to go along with all the awesome stuff that we see. Hey, in the gazillion square foot Las Vegas Convention Center,...
Racing Junk Find: Billy Moffitt’s Bottoms Up Wheelstander
My unnatural love for exhibition drag racing machinery means that I immediately dream and salivate over the possibility of owning something as cool as Billy Moffitt’s “Bottoms Up”...
Show Gallery: The Pomona Swap Meet – October 2011
And the hits just keep on coming! Bob Chiluk didn’t sleep all that much on his California adventure and here’s more proof. He was up before dawn yet again to shoot this gallery of photos...
