New IHRA Pro Fuel Class Looks Cool, Veale/Brown Motorsports Digger will be there
The IHRA announced some major league format changes for the 2010 season, and they also announced some new classes that will be contested. One of them is being called “Pro Fuel” and is...
Saab sale news: Chinese may buy some assets, others interested in whole company
Saab has been a hot potato for GM as of late. The company started a deal to sell the brand to a Swedish sports car manufacturer but it fell apart in the late innings, then there was discussion with...
Wisconsin College Kids Get Engines to Run on (Mostly) Water
We hope there are no black helicopters circling the east coast BangShift.com HQ or any strange oil company representatives knocking at our door for reporting this story. A group of kids and a...
Quick Gallery: The 2009 PRI Show by MSD’s Todd Ryden
The 2009 Performance Racing Industry trade show is up and running in Orlando, Florida. Due to other commitments we could not attend the very cool gathering of hard core vendors from all genres of the...
Drag Racing in Paradise: St. Lucia Hosts a straight line shindig
Sometimes we take for granted that most of us live within a couple hour drive of the local drag strip. You can be-bop to the strip on a Sunday and see a couple hundred cars reeling off laps all day....
Horror Story: Man Escapes Death in a Bad Wreck While Towing a ’69 Camaro Pace Car
We were tipped to loo at a thread over at Yenko.net by BangShift forum member antmnte. The story is awful. A man purchased a pristine 1969 Camaro Pace Car at the massive Turkey Rod Run that is held...
Tourism by Go Kart: Would you do this?
We love seeing new places, but we’re not sure we want to do it in a go kart. A company in San Diego, California, allows you to tour the city in what amounts to a GPS equipped, amusement park go...
Virgin’s New Craft Uses Nitrous Oxide to Launch Private Parties Into Space
If you think our headline sounds funny, you should see the one that caught our eye at England’s The Enterprise. It said, “Virgin joins 70-mile-high club with launch of spaceship.”...
George Ray is Dead but Thankfully His Wildcat Hot Rod Dragstrip is Not
George Ray, the owner and operator of George Ray’s Wildcat Hot Rod Dragstrip in Paragould, Arkansas, died on December 5th. George ran what many consider to be the coolest drag strip on planet...
Who’s Steering NASCAR?
Fox Sports reporter Lee Spencer recently wrote a thought provoking piece that takes a long look at the state of NASCAR and the challenges facing the organization going forward. One of the most...
Must be the Metric System: Focus RS For Muscle Car of the Year?
It has been said that Americans and Brits are people separated by a common language. After hearing that the Ford Focus RS–a 300hp, front wheel drive, “hot hatch”–was voted as...
Chrysler CEO Takes Swipes at European Bailouts, May Actually Have the Stones to Save Chrysler
Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Chrysler (and Fiat) made a speech to an economic think tank recently and took some big swings at the efforts of European governments to bail out their own auto...
Killer Vintage Digger for Sale
We found the perfect place for the big Mickey Thompson hemi-headed 427ci Ford that is currently for sale on eBay. It would fit nicely in the front of this vintage front-engine dragster that is also...
EPA Gets Even More Powerful, Targets Nitrous Oxide; Climate Conference Airs Outrageous Propaganda Video
Here’s a quote from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson: “These long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States Government began addressing the...
