Cool Video: A Top Fuel Sand Dragster On the Launch
Sand drag racing is a primarily west coast sport, but we’re still interested in it, and when we see videos, we just have to stop and watch. As cool as all the junk is, the nitro burning Top...
Cool Circle Track Racing Organization: The Wicked Good Vintage Racing Association
We have to thank our pal and the dude behind Clunkbucket.com, Mike Bumbeck, for tipping us off to the Wicked Good Vintage Racing Association. This group of racers is based up in Maine and runs some...
Speedy Says: Why I Hate Swap Meets
Standing in a nearly empty fairgrounds “cutting horse” arena on a Friday afternoon, I watched as a couple stragglers loaded up various unsold bits of rusty antique automobiles...
John Rains Sets Mustang Cobra Jet Top Speed Mark At Mojave Mile Event
a name that may be familiar to you if you follow the worlds of land speed racing or NHRA drag racing. He runs a killer ’68 Hemi Dart SS/AH car in drag racing competition and has hauled...
Project Goliath Update: The One Cylinder Rebuild, Part One
The great thing about having a couple of project vehicles beating around here at BangShift.com is that our pain and suffering gets to become your entertainment! This is the first of a two-part story...
Video: More Mud-Based Bad-Assery From Bithlo Motorsports Park
Last week we dropped some killer video of huge trucks flying through the air at Orlando, Florida’s Bithlo Motorsports Park. There’s no hang time in this video but there is one kick ass...
Roadside Find: A Killer Tennessee Junkyard Hidden in Plain Sight
Intrepid BangShift.com reader Phil Cooper sent us an awesome batch of photos he took on a recent trip through Tennessee. Phil was minding his own business driving down the road when he came upon...
Register for the Midwest Musclecar Challenge. It Will be on Fox TV!
Time is running out for preregistration to the Midwest Musclecar Challenge, and you don’t want to miss it. Sign up online by clicking here and registering before April 1 to save $50 over...
Gallery: The March 2010 Long Beach Swap Meet
The first Long Beach Swap Meet of the spring of 2010 came with real “chamber of commerce” type weather. The sun was out and promised warm temps from the moment it peeked over the San...
70 MPH is the New 55
This will not come as a shock to anyone, but it seems that most people move down the highway closer to 70 mph than 55. We were tipped off to a Wall Street Journal story which highlighted some data,...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool 1969 Buick Sport Wagon
If it seems like the last few RacingJunk.com finds we’ve made have been wagons it’s because they have been. We’re not seeking wagons only, it’s just that we keep finding these...
English Cops Stop Woman Driving With Hood Up, Not A Fake Story
You literally cannot make this stuff up. English coppers were out in droves earlier this month running a campaign they call “No Excuses” aimed at identifying dangerous drivers. They...
Friday Nitro Video: Don Prudhomme Fires Up His Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Flopper
Don Prudhomme hung up his drag racing spurs prior to the 2010 NHRA season. Without a major sponsor to support his racing operation, the Snake wasn’t going to run a sub-standard team, so...
CraigsList Find: 1950s Kurtis-Kraft Quarter Midget Racer
We like that our own kiddos run around with Cozy Coupes, but in the 1950s and ’60s, it was commonplace for hot rodding toddlers and pre-teens to race around in Quarter Midgets. There’s...
