BangShift Reader Garage of the Week: The Whole Freakin’ Crew at MSD!
The BangShift reader garage section is quickly piling up with cool garages highlighting reader’s rides. We’ve got everything from drag cars to t-buckets in there with everything in...
Killer Upcoming Movie: The Boys of Bonneville
In terms of cool racing related movies, films focusing on land speed racing at Bonneville have been pretty damned good. “The World’s Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins is a...
Show Gallery: The NEATTA Spring Tractor Pull and Antique Tractor Show
Our annual rite of Spring arrived just yesterday in the form of the New England Antique Truck and Tractor Association’s Spring Show and Pull. This year we had a twist on our visitation of the...
Car Show Gallery: The 24th Annual Seal Beach Classic Car Show
The town of Seal Beach, California has been holding this weekend long car show for nearly a quarter century! In that space of time, lots of stuff has changed, and in many ways for the worse. What has...
Gallery: The 2011 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet
Joe Grippo was at the 2011 Spring Carlisle Sawp Meet this past weekend and he filed a great pile of photos from the event. While the internet has really put a damper on the whole “swap...
The 2011 Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance – Seabrook, Texas
We’re starting a big day of galleries in Texas at a very unique show, the Keels and Wheels Concours d’elegance in Seabrook, Texas. This is not a hoity-toity Pebble Beach type deal....
The Parting Shift: Carl Tasca Banging Gears in the World’s Quickest Cobra Jet
BangShift is fortunate to have a great relationship with the Tasca family of Rhode Island. From NHRA Funny Car racer Bob Tasca III to Cobra Jet gear jammer extrodinare Carl Tasca, we’ve spent...
Awesome Old Drag Video: Fuel Altereds, Floppers, and Other Stuff At Irwindale Raceway Circa 1971
This is a cool piece of video, twelve minutes to be exact, featuring a big event at Irwindale Raceway back in 1971. There are awesome fuel floppers, fuel altereds and slingshot Top Fuel dragsters...
Caption This Photo: Trucks Make Bad Boats
We’ve certainly gotten ourselves into an automotive fix or two over the years we’ve been screwing around with cars, but thankfully they’ve not been close to the trouble found in...
SEMA Hall of Fame to Induct Baskerville, Economaki, Towle, and Christman This July
Four great names from the annals of hot rod and racing history are set to be enshrined in the SEMA hall of fame this July during the yearly SEMA Installation Banquet and Gala Fundraiser. This group...
Lid, Can, and Libel: Gasoline Alley Weeps As National Speed Sport News is Dead As Troy Ruttman and Stiff as Dennis Vitolo
It was fifteen minutes before the start of the 1997 Indianapolis 500 and then-National Speed Sport News Editor and Publisher, the gnome-ish seventy-something Chris Economaki, took me on an impromptu...
Awesome Video: Mike Ryan Goes All Gymkhana in His Freightliner!
You’ve probably seen Mike Ryan’s awesome Freightliner race truck before. He’s won his class 12 times at Pikes Peak and been in numerous videos and stunts with the truck. A while...
Aeromotive Announces the Fastest LS in America Challenge
Aeromotive, the industry leader in high performance fuel systems has created a cool new challenge for drag racers running GM LS engines and participating at NMCA races as part of the LSx Challenge...
Wreck Video: The Most Gentle Roll in the History of Drag Racing
Most drag racing crashes are violent and abrupt. The cars are meant to excel at nothing other than going straight, so when the program changes, big time flaws are exposed. In this video from...
