Doug Herbert and Ray Evernham will Attempt 500 MPH at Bonneville
Doug Herbert, a longtime veteran of the IHRA and NHRA Top Fuel ranks, has teamed up with Ray Evernham to build a wild streamliner and make an attempt at a land speed record at the Bonneville Salt...
Video: 2009 March Meet Dragsters in Violent, Sideways Action
When the 2009 March Meet came to Bakersfield’s Famoso Raceway for round one of the year’s NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series, BangShift.com was there, on the starting line, capturing...
Car Feature: 1967 Mustang in Modern Trans-Am Trim
Dean Westmoreland has three NHRA championships and 27 national event wins as a crew member with John Force Racing, plus an IHRA championship with Don Lampus, and he’s now pulling crew-chief...
Site of the Week: Hajek Motorsports
Brent Hajek is a lot of things. He’s a farmer, a lover of all things Ford, the operator of a museum dedicated to race cars, a race team owner, major league car collector, and most of all, a...
New Tech Series: Inside an A/Fuel Dragster
Some of you may know that BangShift.com has joined forces with the A/Fuel Dragster team of Jeff Veale and Ethan Brown Motorsports. Those guys have been cool enough to school us on the ways on...
Car Feature: 10.0-Second Small-Block 1973 Camaro, No Nitrous! Plus Vintage Photos
It seems like most guys’ hot rods get put into one form or another and live there forever. You built a Pro Street car in the 1980s and it’s probably still sporting steamroller tires out...
Time for Some Upgrades at BangShift.com
We have been working overtime recently creating, editing, and proofing new content for the upgrade of BangShift.com which is going to take place throughout the day today, May 27. We advertise...
Video: Drag Racing Altereds in Action at the 2009 March Meet
Here’s the next BangShift.com video of the action at the 2009 March Meet at Famoso Raceway, and this time it’s all about the Altereds. There are many modern cars here, but also some...
Roger Penske Making a Play for Saturn
Roger Penske has approached GM about buying the Saturn brand. He would import the South Korean built Renault Samsung Motors line of cars (like the one shown) to be sold at the dealerships. There is...
Inaugural SEMA Car Show Coming August 1
SEMA is getting into the car show business with the production of a show to be held at The Pasadena Convention Center (which is shockingly located in Pasadena, California) on August 1, 2009. The show...
F1 Drivers Complain About Hot Chick on a Billboard
While we like to pile on the backs of American professional racing drivers that don’t show any emotion and act like sponsor drones, we’ve never heard anything as ridiculous as this come...
Daytona International Fishing Hole
If you think your first day back at work after the long weekend sucks, imaging being on the track management staff at Daytona International Speedway and having this view out of your office window....
Fiat Freaked Out by Chrysler’s Vanishing Value
By a general consensus, most gearheads feel that the Chrysler takeover by Fiat will end in some sort of disaster. The question is only if it will be long-term disaster, short-term disaster, or the...
Drag Racing’s Chuck Finders Passes
We’re late out of the blocks with this news, but Chuck Finders who raced with the Stone, Woods, Cook team, along with running many of his own cars, has passed away. Chuck has been a recognized...
