Awesome Video: The Trailer for a Documentary on Mike Charlton’s Bucks Down Quest for the Motorcycle LSR Record
Eastlake, Ohio’s Mike Charlton is a man of action, not empty words. He’s build and ridden his supercharged V8 exhibition drag bike for years. He constructed a jet powered semi-truck for...
Event Gallery: The Owl’s Head Transportation Museum’s Snow Movers Exhibition
Owl’s Head, Maine is a small hamlet outside of the coastal city of Rockland. It is home to the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum, one of the neatest automotive, airplane, and mechanically...
Racing Junk Find: A ZL-1 Camaro Super Stocker That’s Ready To Run
In the ranks of Super Stock, the closer your class designation gets to the beginning of the alphabet, the quicker and faster you’ll be. Naturally, if you find yourself behind the wheel of a...
Pomona NHRA Top Fuel Winner Interview: Morgan Lucas Talks to BangShift During Pre-Season Testing
When we scheduled all these interviews to run here on BangShift, we had no freakin’ clue that Morgan Lucas was about the kick eveyone’s ass out in Pomona, but hey, it worked out great for...
Pro Stock Chat: Catching Up With Shane Gray at the Las Vegas Pre Season Pro Stock Test
Here’s the younger half of another father/son tandem on the NHRA tour, Shane Gray. Shane’s dad Johnny was most recently a Pro Stock driver who has made the leap back into the nitro Funny...
Top Fuel Interview: Terry McMillan Talks About Making the Full NHRA Full Throttle Tour in 2011
Outside of the Lagana boys, our favorite Top Fuel pilot is Terry McMillan. He’s been sponsored by Amalie Oil for ages, has competed in Alcohol Funny Car and Top Fuel simultaneously in the past,...
Pro Stock Interview: We Talk With 19 Year Old Pro Stock Driver Vincent Nobile
Vincent Nobile is the youngest man in NHRA Pro Stock. His dad, John Nobile has competed on both the NHRA and IHRA circuits, with Vince being at his side the whole way. The kid acquitted himself...
BangShift Project Spotlight: A Neat 1951 Chev Truck Build That Features a Turbocharged GMC Jimmy Six
Gary Hart’s 1951 Chevy truck build is really looking awesome. The lines of a classic early 1950s Chevy are tough to beat, but the real star of this show is the engine. Hart is using an old...
MSD Rolls Out New Advanced Power System Starters
The guys at MSD have had their thinking caps on again. Their popular line of APS starters just got better with the addition of more cranking power, and the addition of new bearings to further beef up...
Interview Video: Bobby Lagana, BangShift Top Fuel Hero
Chances are, if you’re a BangShift reader, you know Bobby Lagana and the multi-generational nitro racing Lagana family. One of the most compelling racing teams running Top Fuel today, they...
Interview Video: Johnny Gray talks about swapping Pro Stock for Nitro Funny Car
Johnny Gray may be the happiest man in America these days. Having just sold his petroleum and natural gas business for more money than some countries are worth, and changed professional NHRA classes...
Interview Video: We Talk to Spencer Massey About Coming Back to the NHRA and Racing with DSR
Spencer Massey is back amongst the ranks of drag racing’s elite, driving the Fram/Prestone Top Fuel Dragster for Don Schumacher Racing. DSR’s pulling of the well loved Cory McClenathan at...
News: Woman Loses Arm in Towing Accident Caused by Glaring Stupidity
Junking your crappy old mini-van is a good idea. Towing that van to the junkyard is a fine thought as well. Doing so with a rope tied around the windshield of the van while you and your friend ride...
Caption This Photo: Hot Shot
By now you’ve surely checked out our huge gallery from the Mardi Gras Nitro Jam, shot by our own Charles Wickam. One photo not in that gallery is shown below. It captures the position Charles...
