Result for: Bonneville
BangShift Project Spotlight: The 1957 Chevy One-Ton Gets a Bed and a Bitchin’ Vintage Slide-In Camper
BangShift member Squirrel has some awesome stuff. His blown 1955 Chevy is a personal favorite car of ours, but his recent project, a 1957 Chevy one-ton truck has really gotten our attention. Jim...
Craigslist Find of the Week: Budweiser Rocket Car Transporter
We were really excited to get the tip on this Budweiser Rocket Car trailer, even though it clearly doesn’t meet the standards of race transporters today. None of that matters when you consider...
Epic Road Trip Thread: Turk and Three Lunatics Cruise to Mexico on Old Hondas
You’ve probably heard the name Keith Turk before. If you read Hot Rod Magazine, you’ve seen his ugly mug racing at Bonneville, Loring, Maxton, and anywhere else dudes and dudettes strive...
Loring Timing Association Announces 2011 Event Date
Limestone, Maine will once again become the fastest place in America for one weekend in 2011. The Loring Timing Association has announced that their 2011 event will be held on July 15-17, 2011. This...
BangShift Christmas Wish List Pick of the Day: A Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Equipped Lenco
Back at SEMA, Gear Vendors President and CEO Rick Johnson did the impossible. He made us crave a Lenco transmission even more than before! With the engineering and release of a Gear Vendors...
Incredible Wreck Video: In Car With Danny Thompson When His Mustang Flies at 260mph!
This is some amazing footage. We’re riding along with Danny Thompson in his Mustang as he hauls the mail down the Bonneville Salt Flats. Things are going along really well until he crests...
Video Update: Spectre Speedliner goes 415 mph at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout
A few weeks ago we posted this item, but now there’s some cool video (below) to see. Already the fastest Cadillac powered vehicle in history, the Spectre Speedliner just went 415.7 miles per...
Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Long Beach Motorama
The Long Beach Motorama has been going since 1958 and continues to feature some of the most beautiful and wonderfully executed kustoms in the world. The show is really broken into two parts. There is...
Spirit of Rett Streamliner Goes 416.9 mph to Break 45 yr old Summers Brothers Record
Charlie Nearburg and the rest of the Spirit of Rett landspeed racing team are on cloud nine this morning as they have broken a 45 year old 409 mph record set by the Summers brothers back in 1965. At...
Cool Visualization Software Allows Users to See How Air Moves Around a Car
We’re not going to pretend to know lots about this cool software that we never knew existed before. We seem to think that it is new, but maybe it’s twenty years old and we’re just...
World’s Fastest Electric Vehicle going for FIA World Record on the Salt Now!
As we speak, the Buckeye Bullet Electric Streamliner, is slowing down from setting a new FIA speed record of 291 mph on the famed salt of Bonneville. The team stayed for a private FIA record attempt...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A Turbocharged Straight-8 Buick Powered Belly Tank
If it is possible to create a cooler LSR racer than this, please give us the formula. A turbocharged Buick straight-eight motor shoehorned into a belly tank from an old Air Force F86 makes for a...
RacingJunk Find: A Race Ready LSR 1977 Corvette
With Chad being stationed on the salt all week providing updates and information Speed Week that you’re literally not going to get anywhere else, we’ve totally gone nuts scheming on LSR...
Desert Racing Tragedy Raises Questions About Racing on Federal Property
After a desert racing tragedy last weekend that left scores of spectators dead and wounded in California after a truck rolled off course, the news media has glommed on to the idea that racing on...