A Visit From St. Garlits
Back in 2005 I adapted the famous poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore into the drag race themed “A Visit From St. Garlits”. The adaptation was a pretty...
PodCast – Listen to BangShift’s Chad Reynolds on Hot Rod Magazine Radio Live
Chad recently appeared on Hot Rod Magazine Radio hosted by Dennis Pittsenbarger. He was on the show talking about all kinds of stuff from the NHRA Unleashed series to the goings on here at BangShift....
BangShift Christmas Poem: Santa Rolls in a Pro Street 1967 Camaro
(Editor’s note: BangShift member Hamar (real name Hal) sent us this poem as told us we could use it if we wanted to. We read it and thought it would be perfect for a Christmas eve blog item. We...
eBay Find: An Awesome Tracked Slow Plow We’re Not Getting for Christmas
With tonight being the “big night” with respect to visits from Santa Claus, we’re too late to edit our wish list. In the event we had another week or two, this kick ass little...
BangShift.com Approved Re-Run: Nitromethane on a Budget With a Carb and Stock Heads!
Chuck Noble is a name that we were familiar with long before we actually met the man. Chuck’s been around the drag racing scene in New England for a while and ran a totally bad ass, blown,...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: Altered Wheelbase Mopars, Fuel Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, and a Tragic Fire
This is one of the coolest vintage drag racing videos we’ve dug up so far in our years of trolling YouTube. It features never before seen footage of some legendary altered wheelbase Mopar...
Crazy Wreckage Sequence Re-Run: A Dragster Pulls a Backflip
While our eyes were trained on the 52nd March Meet, the IHRA was holding their second event of the 2010 season down in Louisiana at State Capitol Raceway, March 5-7. One of the things that the IHRA...
Racing Junk Find: A Gorgeous 1964 Pontiac Catalina with Tri-Power 421 Power
Early 1960s Pontiacs have a class all their own. In their time, not much was capable of hanging with them on the strip. The 421ci Super Duty engine was legend and having a street car sporting that...
Barnstormin’: A Pre-Christmas Brain Cleanse
I’ll let you know right up front that this will probably be the most disjointed column you’ve ever read with about half of it having anything to do with cars, trucks, tractors, or...
Car Feature Re-Run: 10-second, Pump Gas, Big-Block Chevy Powered 1970 Buick Skylark
Throw your nitrous away and leave your turbo at the door. Tom Spinella’s 1970 Buick, powered by a 489ci big-block Chevy, cruises at 65 mph and nearly runs 9s on 93 octane straight out of the...
Last Minute BangShift Chistmas Must Have: Pro Stock Drag Racing Photo History by Lou Hart
Lou Hart has released some awesome drag racing photo collection books over the course of the last several years, but nothing has come close to this amazing opus to the class of Pro Stock. Pro Stock...
Bangshift Question of the Day: Do You Have a Favorite Old School Monster Truck
There’s been a resurgence in old school monster trucks recently. So much so that there is an effort to open an international monster truck museum and hall of fame celebrating the...
Odd Vintage Stunt Video: Jim Bullet Bailey at OCIR Circa 1981
Unlike Captain Jack McClure, stuntman Jim “Bullet” Bailey is 100% dead. But that’s jumping ahead. Bailey gained some level of fame in the 1970s and (very) early 1980s by becoming a...
Chrysler Registers the Word Cuda as a Trademark, We Dunno Why
The website AllPar.com, known for being 100% Par and free of any artificial fillers is reporting that the Chrysler Corporation has registered the word “Cuda” as an official trademark....
