Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass Poncho Powered Pontiac Drag Warrior
There are lots of Pontiac bodied drag race cars prowling strips across America, but few of them have actual Pontiac power. Nope, most of them are just a Pontiac body holding a Chevy motor. Not this...
eBay Find: A Historic Chopped Willys Gasser
If there’s one thing cooler than a Willys gasser, it’s a chopped roof Willys Gasser! We got tipped off to the sale of the Shinholster and Lehman 1941 Willys, which is currently for sale...
Event Gallery: The Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show – Philadelphia, PA
At the tail end of the worst winter anyone in the Northeast region can remember, Philadelphia’s Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show pretty well marks the end of indoor car show season. Our man...
Killer Shop Tour: CJ Pony Parts
CJ Pony Parts is one of the largest Mustang specific parts and equipment sellers in the world. The Pennsylvania based company sells virtually every nut and bolt for ‘Stangs ranging from 1964 to...
BangShift Poll: Are T-Buckets Cool?
One of the debates that shakes BangShift right down to the core centers around T-buckets. Chad hates them to death and I think that they are generally cool. Brass lanterns and garish 1970s trend...
Hunnert Car Heads Up Coming to Great Lakes Dragaway – June 11
The Hunnert Car Heads Up Vintage Drags are back for their third running! The action will again take place at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. That strip was recently voted the most...
Big Collection of Nickey Chevrolets Headed to the Mecum Auction Block in May
One of the nation’s foremost collection of ultra high performance Nickey Chevrolets will hit the auction block during the Mecum Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011. The event is being held...
BangShift Tech: How much horsepower does a mechanical water pump really take to spin?
BangShift.com is proud to be working at Westech Performance Group on a variety of Engine Tech stories in 2011, and some are going to be in depth and others will be interesting facts or fun tests to...
Killer Project Video: The Gixxer Kart Has A new Foe!
For years the golden standard of insane power to weight ratio on the internet has been the infamous “Gixxer kart” which mated the engine from a GSX-R motorcycle to the frame of a tiny go...
First New Motion Camaro Hits the Road – 800hp Monster for Joel Rosen
A while back we announced that the legendary Motion Performance brand of Joel Rosen was going to be brought back with a series of hot rodded new Camaros. The first of these beasts has officially been...
Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring
Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Car Song of All Time?
On a recent cruise down the highway, we slipped an unmarked CD into the radio and out sprang Ronnie and the Daytonas, belting out their famous car tune, G.T.O. That got us to thinking about the...
Caption This Photo: A Well Worn Econoline
We’ve seen lots of neglected vehicles in our day. Typically, up here in New England they rot into a pile, but down in bayou country, they seem to suffer a different fate. This Econoline looks...
Is The AHRA Coming Back From the Dead Again?
Like a drag racing zombie that eats money, hopes, and dreams instead of brains, the AHRA may be coming back again. We were tipped off to the existence of a new AHRA website and on that site are...
