Event Gallery: The 2011 Paw Paw Pull in the Park – Paw Paw, Illnois
We normally get photo dispatches from Greg Rourke that feature cool shows, drag strip action, and muscle car hooliganism. This time we’re heading to the smoking section with pulling tractors...
Racing Junk Find: A Slingshot Dragster Sporting A Nitro Slurping Jeep Straight Six
There are lots of unique slingshot dragsters out there but we’re for sure this is the only one in the world that runs down the track with power provided by a nitro drinking Jeep straight six...
More Vintage Carnage: The King and Marshall AA/FD Climbs the Stairway to Heaven!
We’re back again with more crazy video from Jim Knights at Lebanon Valley Dragway. On the same weekend of the insane Funny Car Wreck we showed you earlier, Ray Helger, driving the historic King...
Funny Car Wreckage: A Video Flip Book of a Flopper Burnout Gone Very Wrong
Driving a Funny Car of any significance is pretty serious business. Just because it doesn’t have a huge huffer, nitro running through the fuel system, or potential to run 300mph doesn’t...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 Countdown: Rumors, Reality, and More!
It’s September boys and girls and that means the baddest street cars on the planet are about to embark on the most bitchin road trip in history; Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, presented by...
End of the Line: Ford Crown Victoria Production to Cease at the End of September Despite Sales Surge
Police departments are rushing to get their final orders in for the venerable Ford Crown Victoria sedans that have served them so well for decades as it has been announced production will cease at...
Great Video: Hot Cars, Hot Laps, and Melting Tires at Norway’s Arctic Circle Raceway
We were tipped off to this great video by BangShift member Blazerteam, who happens to live in a Norwegian town called Mo i Rana. He’s a huge gearhead with a wild big block Chevy powered...
BangShift Sponsors tear it up at the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge
BangShift Sponsors Detroit Speed, Ridetech and Spectre Performance were all on hand at this past weekend’s Midwest Muscle Car Challenge where, as usual, they tore it up in grand fashion. The...
Wild Carnage Video: Tony Kanaan Flies Over Helio Castroneves, Walks Away
Crazy stuff happens when open wheel race cars get together. Two of the best guys in the business of driving said open wheel cars are Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves. They had a violent encounter...
Ridetech takes 3 of 4 class wins at Goodguys Kansas Autocross…Full Results Here
Not since Britney Spears and Madonna has going both ways been such a hit, and who knew that it would apply to shocks just as much as hot chicks? Ever since Ridetech came out of the closet and...
Combo Show Gallery: The Country Cruisers and Kauffman’s Chicken Farm Car Shows
Rain totally sucks. It kills attendance at shows, closes the drag strip, and makes working on your junk outside a deplorable experience. Doug Garrison, our intrepid Pennsylvanian photog, donned his...
eBay Find: The Camaero, a 1968 Camaro Powered by Olds 455 Mounted in the Trunk!
One of the craziest and most unique 1968 Camaros of all time, the so-called “Camaero” is for sale on eBay. The car has a 455ci Olds engine mounted where the rear seat and trunk area would...
Cruise Gallery: The Great Pottstown Cruise 2011 – Pottstown, PA
Pottstown, PA was known as a crazy cruising and street racing capital for decades until the man cracked down on all forms of automotive tom foolery and things went sadly silent. Then slowly, starting...
