BangShift Pocket Drag Biography: The Freight Train Top Gas Twin Engine Dragster – A Nearly Unstoppable Force!
Top Gas dragsters are largely forgotten today, which is really too bad. Born of the NHRA’s ban on nitromethane that lasted from 1957-1963, Top Gas dragsters really started as weak-suck little...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Time For Coachbuilding To Make A Comeback?
If you dive back into the early days of the automobile, it was common to purchase a running chassis from one make and send it to a body manufacturer for the actual shape of the car. Names that you...
The Maniac’s Truck: Go In-Depth Into Colin Furze’s 1988 Toyota!
The Toyota Hilux is indestructible. TopGear proved it by trying like hell to kill one and they failed. And they tried, indeed: among other, much more minor abuses, the Toyota was drowned in the...
Watch A Crewman Escape Death By Inches At Byron Dragway – Dragster He Is Standing Next To Nearly Runs Him Over
In nearly 20 years of going to the drag strip now (mostly in a working environment) I have learned a few things but the most important thing I have learned is that the starting line is an incredibly...
Morning Symphony: Arias Hemi V6 – An Absolutely Rare Gem
The three parts of the description of the engine you are about to hear individually have merit. Hemi, by itself, needs no introduction. While primarily thought of as a Chrysler mill that has been...
Hard Shot: Here’s What Happens With A Nitrous Crazed Grudge Car Busts The Tires Loose – BAM!
Grude racing, no time racing, whatever you want to call it is the hottest segment in the world of drag racing today. Seemingly every track across the country is running programs where cars like these...
In-Car Video Perfection: Ride Along In A Real 1966 GT350 At The Classic24 at Daytona – Screaming On The Banks!
This is just one of those videos that we could watch on a loop for hours. Between the course, the car, and the history involved in all of it, you cannot help but love this scene. The video was take...
Home-Grown Paint Job? Yeah…Uncle Tony Has A Thing Or Two To Say About That
One of the things that I’m flipping a coin on is whether I’m going to paint the Rough Start Fox or not. Our 1989 Mustang is two different shades of red (mostly Cabernet Red, some Bright...
Rough Start: 1971 Ford Maverick Sans Engine
The Ford Mustang is the car that America loves…except those made between 1971 and 1978, it seems. The final form of the first generation Mustang got big to accept big engines at precisely the...
Wreckage Video: Mitch George’s Wild Heavy Street Wreck From The Old Shakedown At E-Town
(By Jason Mazzotta) – The Shakedown at E-town was always an event that the racing world kept their eyes on; for the record runs, giant wheelies, and some of the most unbelievable wrecks ever...
Throw Down Old School: This 1971 Vintage Funny Car Is Just Begging For A Restoration And Re-Power!
There’s “nostalgia funny car racing” and then there are real, period correct funny cars. This 1971 Charger funny car is for sale at a dealer’s place in Texas and while...
Drag Racing Time Travel: These Films From Bakersfield and Indy Are An Amazing 1960s Time Portal
Long before the golden age of the internet and YouTube, if you were a kid who loved hot rods and fast cars and wanted to see more of them, you needed some gumption…and some money. Whether you...
Jason Harris Overcomes Tough Field To Win Second Big Dog Of The 2020 Season For Wine Racing
(By Greg Burrow) – After 23 seasons, becoming the longest running single track series in the country, you would possibly think that competitors in Piedmont Dragway’s “Big Dog Shootout”...
What’s It Going To Be? We Take Some Guesses At What The Raptor Version Of The Ford Bronco Could End Up Like
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Bronco has made a giant splash in the recent news, and it probably will continue to for a while. The Ford F-150 Raptor has also made a big splash in recent years for...
