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BangShift’s Class-By-Class Preview of Hot Rod Drag Week 2016

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is  the most intense form of street-car racing in the world. The competition pits street cars, some of which really push the boundaries of that phrase, to run...

We’re Drooling Over Some Cool RVs At Bonneville Speed Week 2016 And Here Are Our Favorites

It’s a given that you are going to see a ton of killer race cars when you come to Bonneville Speed Week, and of course a lot of hot rods, but what surprises some folks are the interesting tow...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Poke-Tesla, Say “SKOD-a”, And A Sad Goodbye

Sun-baked, running from track to track, and showing no signs of stopping, we march on to bring you news, both important and…well, not. As Chad stands on a glass panel several hundred feet in...

Video and Time Slip: Tom Bailey Takes Sick Seconds 2.0 To A 3.985/189 Eight Mile – A Five Coming Soon?

For the first time since it has been on the track Sick Seconds 2.0 has traversed the eighth mile in less than four seconds. Yes, Tom Bailey won Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week in 2015 and he did it with...

Detroit Autorama 2016 Coverage: Everything From Sick Seconds 2.0 To The Model Contest Here!

(Photos by Mike Brooks/Gasoline Images) – So as we continue to wade through the massive number of photos that our own Mike Brooks good at the Detroit Autorama 2016, we have come across a fun...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: NASCAR’s Frightening New Rules, The Chevy You Can’t See And More!

Well, the big news this week seems to be that winter weather is cold. Hmm, big shock. But for anybody that actually has to be out in that mess, it is certainly worth the “ZOMG PANIC THERE IS...

Carnage Video: Doug Garrison’s Drag Week Pontiac GTO Hits The Barrier At Cecil County

Long-time readers of BangShift and Drag Week fans will know this Pontiac GTO. It belongs to Doug Garrison, and a couple of days ago it broke an axle while at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland, sending...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, A New Caddy, A New Bentley, And The World’s Angriest Hipster!

By the time you read this, we will be in the middle of LS Fest in it’s entirety…if the weather around western Kentucky will actually cooperate. Otherwise there will be some seriously...

Tom Goes Testing: Sick Seconds 2.0 Records Sub-1 Second 60′ Times – Quick To Eighth Mile (Video)

(Photo credit: Bailey Racing FB Page) – While Larry Larson has been running at seemingly every event in the country this summer in the now legendary 5-second S-10 truck, Tom Bailey and Steve...

Warhead: Watch The Test Mule Engine For Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds 2.0 Make 3,625hp On Morris Racing Engines Dyno

If there is one thing that I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed first hand it has been the escalation of competition, technology, horsepower, and insanity in the world of street legal drag...

All Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 Tracks Announced – Gateway Motorsports Park, Indy, Great Lakes Dragaway and Cordovas Round It Out!

After months of waiting, fingernail gnawing, and speculation, Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 tracks have been announced and this looks like it will be a wild Midwestern adventure through some of the coolest...

Tom Bailey’s Drag Week Winning Camaro Hit’s The Dyno And Makes 2500 Horsepower At The Tires!

Tom Bailey’s Project “Sick Seconds” 1969 Camaro won Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week with record performances never seen before. He ran 6.70s at 213 mph in 2013, and expects to...

Drag Week Reader Build: This Boosted, Coyote Powered Mercury Capri Makes 900hp At The Tire And Eats Clutches

The Mercury Capri is a Fox-body that lots of people seem to either forget about or write off. Yes, the looks weren’t quite as good as the Fox-body Mustang, but there are less of them around,...

The Cars, The Classes, And The Drivers You NEED To Know For The 2014 March Meet This Weekend!

(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos as credited) – (Editor’s note: This weekend it is GO TIME for the greatest nostalgia drag race known to man, the Bakersfield March Meet....