Score Ridetech’s New 130-Page Catalog FREE!
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Score Ridetech’s New 130-Page Catalog FREE!
We got word on the executive tip line that our buddies at Ridetech are offering their brand new 130pg catalog for free to anyone who requests one. There are no strings attached and just a simple...
eBay Find: A Factory Supercharged 1954 Kaiser Manhattan
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Find: A Factory Supercharged 1954 Kaiser Manhattan
Believe it or not, the 1954 Kaiser Manhattan was the first car to offer a factory supercharger after WWII. While that sounds sexy and exciting, you have to realize that the blower was forcing air...
Watch Hot Rod’s Rob Kinnan and His Lemons Team Finish Their Car at Craftsman Experience Live
Oct 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch Hot Rod’s Rob Kinnan and His Lemons Team Finish Their Car at Craftsman Experience Live
Hot Rod Magazine editor Rob Kinnan (seen in the photo snoozing on the salt in 2008) will be at Chicago’s Craftsman Experience with his 24 Hours of Lemons team wrenching on their car to get it...
Website of the Week: A Massive Collection of Race Driver Biographies
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Website of the Week: A Massive Collection of Race Driver Biographies
We’re unrepentant racing history geeks here at BangShift and we know lots of you out there in reader land are too. We got tipped off to the most incredible collection of stories and biographies...
Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...
Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza 2010
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza 2010
From the Long Beach, California area, we now whisk you to League City, Texas, where our Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam attended the Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza car show. This was a...
Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – September 2010
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – September 2010
Our intrepid West Coast correspondent Scott Liggett dragged himself out of bed in the pre-dawn hours a couple of weeks back to hit the September version of California’s vaunted Long Beach Swap...
Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip
When Berserko Bobby Doerrer called us up and said that he was helping out with a jet car that had just matched raced a monster truck at Palm Beach International Raceway, we asked him to place his...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1968 McLaren Can-Am Racer
Oct 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1968 McLaren Can-Am Racer
When the great book of bendy racing is written, two classes of race cars will sit atop of the heap of the nuttiest ever to turn right and left. Those two classes are the Group B rally machines of the...
Barnstormin’: Spoiled Rotten
Oct 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Barnstormin’: Spoiled Rotten
Sitting here in the East Coast BangShift World HQ, I’m still trying to wipe the perma-grin off my face from our weekend broadcast of the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Tens of thousands...
British Virgin Islands Hires Consulting Firm to Study Possible Drag Strip Project
Oct 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on British Virgin Islands Hires Consulting Firm to Study Possible Drag Strip Project
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) government recently hired New Direction Consultancy to conduct a feasibility study on whether or not the BVI should have a drag strip. That company has contacted the...
In the Books: We Post Every Single Car Record From SCTA/BNI Speed Week 2010
Oct 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on In the Books: We Post Every Single Car Record From SCTA/BNI Speed Week 2010
Insane Carnage Photos: A 10.5 Tire Mustang Meets Its Maker
Oct 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Insane Carnage Photos: A 10.5 Tire Mustang Meets Its Maker
There’s wreckage and then there’s wreckage. The driver who piloted this thing that used to be a Fox-bodied Mustang was ok, but the car looks like someone pushed it out a cargo plane at...
2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Video and Photo Coverage
Oct 14, 2010Chad Reynolds1
The 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion vintage drag race was October 15-17, at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, and BangShift.com had a free live video feed from all three days of racing. Stay tuned to th...












