Nitro Video: The Cacklefest from the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion With a Bonus Don Garlits Interview
By the time you read this, we’ll be headed for Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California to set up our scaffolding rig in preparation of our live broadcast of the entire 2010 NHRA California...
Life of Joaquin Arnett to be Honored at NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion
Pioneering drag racer Joaquin Arnett’s life will be honored during the 19th Annual California Hot Rod Reunion this weekend. Arnett’s contributions to the sport go far beyond the machinery...
BangShift Gallery: A Tour of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
One of the primary reasons that the NHRA Heritage Series and the great Hot Rod Reunions exist is for the benefit of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Pomona, California, on the same...
Retro Gallery: Cacklefest Action From the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion
With the BangShift.com streaming broadcast of the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion set to kick off tomorrow morning, we’re going to get you in the mood with a barrage of nostalgia drag...
Wild Video: The 2010 World Power Wheel Standing Championship From Byron Dragway
The 16th annual World Power Wheel Standing Championship is in the books. The brain child of Byron Dragway owner/operator Ron Leek, the contest has grown from small freak show to massive drag racing...
The Restored NASCAR 1965 Impala is on eBay for $75K
One of our favorite restoration projects, the Roy Mayne 1965 NASCAR Impala, is for sale on eBay again, and this time it has been restored. The asking price is $75,000 and we don’t think...
Great Americana Read: How to Build a Demo Derby Combine
The destructive delight of Combine demolition derbies have been highlighted on the electronic pages of BangShift before. The huge, lumbering machines make wicked noise when they collide, and seeing a...
Video Bonanza: Altered Wheelbase Freaks on the Streets!
Altered wheelbase cars are some of the most romanticized in drag racing history. They represent one of the earliest evolutionary stages of what we now know as Funny Cars, and for their short time in...
Event Gallery: The Fall Carlisle Car Show and Swap Meet
Joe Grippo, our prolific Pennsylvanian photo contributor, shared a great batch of photos from the Fall Carlisle Collector Car Show and Swap Meet. Joe went hunting for the odd and interesting this...
Auto Trader Classics Find: An Optimistically Priced 1948 Ford F1 Truck
Sometimes these find us. More honestly, they fly right off the screen, slap us, and dare us not to show them to the world. This 1948 F1 Ford truck did just that, and we’re happily obliging it....
Crane Cams Introduces 350-plus New Camshafts for 2011
Don’t call it a comeback. Crane Cams has announced that their engineers have developed more than 350 new camshaft profiles for 2011. There are applications for virtually everything across the...
Diesel Power Video: A One-Off 24 Cylinder Detroit That Makes Nearly 3,000 hp
Two-stroke Detroit Diesel engines are neat and in their many configurations they have provided reliable grunt for decades in hundreds of applications. The mighty sixteen cylinder examples were the...
Punching Back: Detroit Automakers Gain Domestic Market Share
Like a woozy boxer snapping to after whiffing the smelling salts, the Detroit car companies have made gains against their foreign competitors and actually (gasp!) gained domestic market share in what...
Twin-Engine Digger Video: A Retro-Awesome Slick Destroying Machine
The age of the twin-engine dragster has long passed. Sadly, there are very few exhibition runners out there to show the drag fans of today, just how bad ass they were. This video was shot at Beaver...
