Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 3 Results Are In
The results of Day 3 of Hot Rod Drag Week at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, have been posted here at the Hot Rod Magazine web site. Go there to download the pdf, which is getting too large...
SideJobPhotos Great Shots from Drag Week 2009
While you’re awaiting tonight’s BangShift.com coverage of Day 3 at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, go check out the SideJobPhotos web site to see some very cool shots of many of the competitors....
Video: Jay Brown’s 1964 SOHC Galaxie Running 9.53 at 140 MPH During Drag Week
Jay Brown is the racer who we have been following on Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 through his diaries at FordFE.com. As of Tuesday, he was the leader in the Modified Naturally Aspirated class with a best...
Drag Week Breaking News: Jeff Lutz’s 1957 Chevy is Out!
BangShift Chad just called from Norwalk, Ohio, with the news that Unlimited racer Jeff Lutz and his bad, 7-second 1957 Chevy are out of the competition at Hot Rod Drag Week. It seems that a broken...
600 Horsepower, 12.33-Second E.T. for Vortech 2010 Camaro, Says Edmunds
What do you get when you cross a brand new, six-speed-automatic Camaro SS and a V-3 Si-Trim Vortech supercharger? How about 603 hp and 518 lb/ft of torque? That’ll ruffle your toupee for sure....
Survey Says Americans Crave Turbos
If a company that manufactures turbochargers administered a survey asking Americans about their view of turbochargers, what do you think the results would be? If you guessed overwhelmingly positive,...
New Car Sales Slump After Cash for Clunkers Ends
In news that took us totally by surprise, it seems that new car sales are slumping hard now that the government’s Cash for Clunkers program has ended. It’s not like a bunch of demand was...
Larry Larson Runs Hot Rod Drag Week’s Fastest Pass Ever! 7.25 at 199 MPH
BangShift Chad is on site at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio for Day 3 of racing at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009. He just called in to report that Larry Larson’s 1966 Chevy II just ran the...
The King & Marshall AA/FD Comes Home to Rhode Island
With the explosion in popularity of nostalgia drag racing and historic drag racing machinery in recent years, it is no surprise that some of the greatest cars from the past have been brought back to...
Tuesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com
We’ve been following Drag Week with the diary of racer Jay Brown in his SOHC-motored 1964 Galaxie. We think he’s the only person to have raced at every single Drag Week since the start...
More Affordable Belt Drives from Jesel
Wayne Jesel is one of the coolest guys we see at Bonneville, and this year he got his brother Dan into the 200 MPH Club. Dan runs Jesel Valvetrain Innovations. He must be cool, too, because the...
Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted
Life is a funny thing. We have friends who had their licenses taken due to um, agressive driving and got caught about thirty seconds after they decided to slip behind the wheel before getting it...
Site of the Week: Yenko.net
During the horsepower war of the 1960s in Detroit, Ford, GM and Chrysler were cranking out high performance cars that ran harder and faster than anything previously built. That was good enough for...
Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...
