NE Dragway Sanctioning Switch Big News, NHRA National Event Coming to Epping
The rumors raised eyebrows, the confirmation raised excitement levels, and now the announcement that the NHRA will contest a national event at Epping, New Hampshire’s, New England Dragway in...
Craigslist Find: An Unstoppable 1944 Autocar 4×4 Semi-Tractor
Forgive us for our love of large, incredibly slow, weird trucks. We can’t shake it, and when we saw this totally odd 1944 Autocar Army truck, we were in lust. We nearly passed out when we read...
Site of the Week: Cold War Relics
We met BangShift forum member Dave Dauphinee while attending the LTA land speed racing event in Loring, Maine. Unlike most people that meet us, Dave didn’t run screaming and yelling into the...
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...
War on Racetracks: Town of Paris Presents Great Lakes Dragaway With Noise and Light Proposal
Historic Great Lakes Dragaway which has been in existence for more than 50 years in Union Grove, Wisconsin, is locked in a fight for life with the town of Paris, Wisconsin. The town is fighting the...
Great Thread: Antique Race Boats Are Truly Hot Rods on Water
Like nostalgia drag racing or old timey stock car racing, the world of boat racing is chock full of vintage equipment that thundered down waterways in years past. Again, like those other forms of...
RacingJunk Find: A Crazed, Turbocharged, Speed Buggy Autocross Killer (w/Video)
We’ve got go-karts on the brain recently, and there’s a reason, which you’ll find out about next week. That being the case, we went hunting for neat stuff on RacingJunk and found...
Cool Visualization Software Allows Users to See How Air Moves Around a Car
We’re not going to pretend to know lots about this cool software that we never knew existed before. We seem to think that it is new, but maybe it’s twenty years old and we’re just...
Project Car Spotlight: Joe Grippo’s 1970 Mustang
After highlighting Scott Liggett’s cool 1970 Caprice project yesterday, we needed to swap coasts and show the hot rod of our other major photo contributor, Pennsylvanian Joe Grippo. Joe is one...
English Driver Died Attempting Car Jump Across Harbor
In a story that is both sadly tragic and humorous, a 20-year old English man was killed when he attempted to jump his car off a pier and over a 30ft section of a harbor in Cornwall, England....
Great Vintage Video: Chevy Vega Development Footage From 1970!
We’ve featured vintage film from the old “Car and Track” show before, but this could be the coolest ever for a variety of reasons. As usual, Bud Lindemann leads us off on the...
New Holland to Unveil Hydrogen Powered Farm Tractor Prototype
New Holland has developed a new tractor called the NH2 that is powered by hydrogen. The tractor is set to make a public debut at the 2010 Farm Progress Show held in Boone, Iowa. The working prototype...
Barnstormin’: Is the Smart Car Dead?
While cruising with our family recently we passed what was once one of the largest volume Smart Car dealers in the country located in a town north of Boston, Massachusetts. I couldn’t help but...
Wild Wreck Video: In-Car Footage of a Dragster Rolling Over at Speed
The advent of the affordable on-board camera has made the wonder of in-car video a rather normal thing these days. Footage of cars crashing from the inside out never gets old in our book. We were...
