Smash Video: How Not to Do a Burnout and How Not to Make Friends at the Drag Strip
Jun 02, 2011Brian Lohnes4
There are several ways to raise the ire of fellow racers at the drag strip. Oiling down the track is a pretty big party foul, crashing and causing a stoppage of racing while the carcass of your race...
eBay Find: A Bad Ass, Pro Street 1956 Ford
Jun 02, 2011Brian Lohnes2
While Chad has showed us some awesome Pro Touring cars with his galleries from the Run to Music City event, we found car that falls on the other end of the spectrum with this wild, blown, 1956 Ford...
Narco-Tanks: The New Scourge of the Mexican Drug War
Jun 02, 2011Brian Lohnes2
The long running war between powerful Mexican drug cartels and the Mexican government rages on, the argument that the cartels are better armed than the police and army seems to be valid with the...
Event Coverage UPDATE: Carbon Customs presents the 2011 Run to Music City
Jun 01, 2011Chad Reynolds2
Here at BangShift, we are all about driving your hot rods. If that means a trip to the local cruise night once a week, great. A roadtrip? Even better. But if you actually go out and put all your...
Video: Chris Alston’s 1964 Nova Makes Vortech Superchargers First 6-Second Pass
Jun 01, 2011Chad Reynolds1
What’s it take for your 598 cubic inch 1964 Nova to run deep in the 6’s at over 212 mph? Apparently the answer is a Vortech V-28 123 supercharger. Chris Alston Jr.’s little Chevy...
100ft Drags Bring Drag Racing Back to Long Island, NY
Jun 01, 2011Brian Lohnes10
After telling you about the social and political storm clouds surrounding the drag strip in Fontana, California, we thought it would be good to give you a good news story about grassroots drag...
Cool Parts: F and B Performance Engineered Products 6-BBL EFI Systems
Jun 01, 2011Brian Lohnes1
A while back we featured the cool ‘Cuda of BangShift member BKBridges in our BangShift Reader Garage of the Week blog item. We joked that BK’s ‘Cuda and virtually all of his other...
Lohnes to Appear on the Wally Bell Radio Show Tonight!
Jun 01, 2011Chad Reynolds1
BangShift’s Brian Lohnes will appear tonight on the Wally Bell Show, a popular internet radio show hosted by the door slammer racing legend, Wally Bell. We’re not sure what the Hell Wally...
Nitro Video: The Boss Bird Pontiac Powered Nitro Funny Car Thunders to Life!
Jun 01, 2011Brian Lohnes3
There was a time when a Pontiac powered nitro flopper was pretty normal stuff. Guys like Dick Jesse and Arnie Beswick proudly flew the Poncho banner with header flames belching from under their cars....
Auto Club Dragway in Fontana Threatened in Noise Dispute
Jun 01, 2011Brian Lohnes6
One of drag racing’s most grim ironies is that the ancestral home of the sport, Southern California is virtually devoid of drag strips. According to various sources in the area, one of the last...
Video: AFCO and Ring Brothers Test Out the New PT Elite Shocks
Jun 01, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Video: AFCO and Ring Brothers Test Out the New PT Elite Shocks
Anyone who has seen a Ring Brothers built hot rod knows they don’t do anything half assed. In fact they have taken themed hot rods and muscle cars to a new level in recent years and continue to...
Drag Gallery: Hot Action From Byron Dragway’s Big Bucks Bracket Bash
May 31, 2011Brian Lohnes2
Having taken you to Texas and then to eastern Massachusetts, we now wing you to Byron, Illinois, home of the legendary Byron Dragway. Greg Rourke, our photo contributor located in the “center...
Cruise Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise – Halifax, MA
May 31, 2011Brian Lohnes4
With the three day weekend looming large in front of us, and a big green truck itching to hit a cruise night, we called the boss, reported that we had leprosy and ditched out of work early on Friday....
Grande Fuego Video: A European Nitrous Pro Mod Explodes and Burns to the Ground at Santa Pod
May 31, 2011Brian Lohnes6
Another week, another incredible multi-angle set of videos showing a nitrous Pro Mod exploding and burning to the ground. This time, the action comes from historic Santa Pod Raceway in England, where...












