Second Annual Pocono Drag Lodge Reunion This Weekend
The Pocono Drag Lodge operated in Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1972 when the facility was ravaged by Hurricane Agnes. During the years it operated the track was home to everything from weekly grudge...
Cool Video: Bigfoot Burning Up the Strip
For the second year in a row, the ADRL has had the Bigfoot monster truck come out to their event at Gateway International Raceway outside of Saint Louis to make some laps. The Bigfoot guys had a good...
Hurst Opens Hurst Garage in So-Cal, We Want Lightning Rods in a New Camaro
Hurst Performance has announced the creation of Hurst Garage, a full line customization shop located at Hurst Headquarters in Southern California. The shop will start by offering packages for new...
Fast and Furious 5 Filming: Writer Thinks That Action Scenes May Be Unrealistic
Don’t ask us how, but we stumbled upon a move blog that spilled some beans on next year’s Fast and Furious 5. The old gang is all back with Vin Diesel, the rest of the original crew, and...
Pocono Raceway Goes Off the Grid, Using Solar Farm to Power Track
Pocono Raceway, the famous stock car track in Pennsylvania that hosts two Sprint Cup races each year, has recently fired up a 25-acre solar farm to fill the power needs. The track is now the largest...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1942 Dodge WC-53 Carryall
There are a handful of vehicles that we fall into instant lust with when we see them. This 1942 Dodge WC-53 Carryall is one of them. In virtually perfect condition, you could pay your money and be...
All-Time Carnage Video: Coach Bus Crash Testing
We’re total suckers for crash test video. We can watch cars smash into walls for days on end, but we’re now going to up our requirements. This is video of a coach-style bus being crash...
Another Big Drag Strip’s Future in Limbo
Like the now defunct Memphis Motorsports Park before it, Gateway International Raceway, which is owned and controlled by the same company that killed MMP, is staring down the barrel of a gun. Dover...
Sad News: Top Fuel Hydroplane Champion John Haas Passes at IHBA event
John Haas, a multi-time and defending Top Fuel Hydroplane drag racer, was killed during the IHBA (International Hot Boat Association) Mid-America Summer Nationals on Saturday. His boat hit a small...
Video Carnage Bonanza: More Circle Track Spectator Drags Wreckage
Few things we have posted over the years here at BangShift.com have gotten us the response that the recent video bonanza featuring spectator drags wreckage from circle tracks across the country...
Craigslist Find: A Death Trap Masquerading as a Snowmobile
When we were tipped off by a BangShift reader in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to this insane creation we didn’t know how to react. At first we kind of thought it was a joke, and then the more we...
Rumor Confirmed: New England Dragway to Race Under NHRA Sanction in 2011
BangShift.com has confirmed, through discussions with highly placed sources that New England Dragway, a longtime IHRA national event facility will switch sanctions at the end of the 2010 season and...
The Parting Shift: Bumper Cam Footage of Bob Self’s 218mph Ford GT From Loring, Maine
Bob Self’s totally bad ass 2006 Ford GT can lay claim to being the fastest car at Loring, Maine during the 2010 LTA event. Bob ran this monster to a 218mph lap and it sounded as sweet as...
Mustang Outsells Camaro by Three Cars in July
The battle royale between the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro continued in earnest through the month of July, 2010, with the two in a virtual dead heat for sales during that time period. Only three...
