NASCAR Seeks Ruling in Mayfield Case
The Sporting News is reporting that attorneys for NASCAR have requested that Judge Graham Mullen of the U.S District Court rule in their favor and against Jeremy Mayfield based on the information...
Thanksgiving is Coming, Give Thanks for your Hot Rod
Thanksgiving will be upon us next week and with it the holiday season will shift into high gear. We found a neat piece that does a nice job of summing up our feelings on being a gearhead and all the...
NASCAR Start and Park Teams Reach New Low: Racing With No Pit Crew!
NASCAR has a bunch of teams that live in what’s called “start and park” status. Essentially these teams are non-sponsored, ultra-low-budget operations that scrape by from race to...
Good News: New Utah Drag Strip Construction Set to Begin on Friday
We’re too often reporting about bad stuff happening to race tracks across the country so we were overjoyed to learn that a new drag strip is set to be built in Utah. This isn’t one of...
Garlits Documentary Currently In Production
A production company out of New York is working to wrap up filming on a documentary about the life and accomplishments of Don Garlits. We’re excited at the prospect of a film dedicated to...
More Olds Abuse on Ebay: The Barris 70-X Toronado
There’s good weird, bad weird, and Barris weird. This George Barris designed and constructed Oldsmobile definitely falls into the third category. The car looks to have been physically...
Vintage 1920s Land Speed Post Cards From Ormand Beach
BangShift.com member Jeremy George (Mustang13 on the forums) provided us with some awesome vintage post cars showing land speed races in the 1920s being held on Ormand (Now known as Daytona) beach....
Video: Haulin’ Bob-Tail In a Racing Big Rig
This video showcases the driving ability of Markus Boesiger, a former European racing truck series champion. Markus is working his mojo behind the wheel of a racing big rig at a hill climb event...
Over 10,000 Vintage Drag Racing Photos!
Wow! That’s all you can say to this mother-lode collection of drag racing photos from the ’60s to the ’80s. We’d advise you never to go to the DragRacersReunion web site...
Video: 101-Year-Old Buys a 2010 Camaro SS
Here’s a great one for you. The GM public relations machine was hoping for young buyers for the new 2010 Camaros, but one guy just single-handedly brought up the average. He’s 101 years...
Event Gallery: The 2009 Shakedown at E-Town
The Shakedown at E-Town in Englishtown, New Jersey, is the baddest ass specialty door slammer drag race in the world. It is not a series, it is an annual occurrence that seems to reset the...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: An ’80s-tastic Jeep Ad
The final entry in our “Cool Trucks, Cool Ads” feature today is a great Jeep commercial from the 1980s. One thing you could always count on in an ’80s ad is a song. It may be...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: International Scout
How about a cool, late-’60s, early-’70s ad for an International Scout? It seems that this one comes from across the pond as there’s a speaker who has a distinctly English accent and...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: The 1969 Dodge D-100
This second installment of our “Cool Trucks, Cool Ads” feature today takes us back to 1969 and a great ad from “The Dodge Boys” featuring a guy in a gorilla suit and a D-100...
