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The 2014 March Meet Is Coming – We’re Planning On Being There And YOU Should Be, Too!
March means a couple of things here at BangShift but most importantly it means that the greatest nostalgia drag race in the world, the Bakersfield March Meet will be happening and 2014 is no...
Death Of The Bad Seed: How I Almost Fired Myself for Street Racing the Bad Seed Chevette – Part 3
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante) – It all started innocently enough with a Friday afternoon bench racing session in my office at Hot Rod magazine. It was summertime in L.A., July 6, 2001 to...
BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Lohnes’s Favorite Snaps From An Adventurous 2013
(Photos by the author) — So Nutting kicked off a series of “BangShift Photo Highlight Reel” stories that we’re going to run featuring all of our contributors who want to cull...
CLICK HERE FOR REPLAY VIDEO OF THE 2013 SHAKEDOWN AT THE SUMMIT!
UPDATE: After many valiant comebacks, thousands of gallons in jet fuel, blood, sweat, and tears, the record breaking Shakedown at the Summit has been called due to rain. All purses will be split. We...
800hp, Naturally Aspirated 461ci Windsor Build and Dyno Video – A Chevy Killer Is Born!
Last week we showed you video of a naturally aspirated LS engine making big power on the dyno before LS Fest. Many of you expressed your opinion of being sick of LS engines but James Forgan went a...
Barnstormin’: The Bonneville Edition
By now you’re probably sick of seeing the photos of cars running on the salt or reading our stories about cars, motorcycles, and contraptions I can scarcely identify doing the same. Our goal...
The Underdogs: Can They Knock Out The Speed Demon? Or Will They Be It’s Next Victim?
We’ve already discussed the Battle Royale that was/is expected between the Poteet and Main Speed Demon and the Team Vesco Turbinator. What we haven’t told you is that there are two...
Saturday Night Nitro: Records Fall, Heat Rises, And The Bakersfield Boise Blitz Is In Full Swing
(Text and Photos by Darr Hawthorne, Photos Paul Schmitz) Another hot Kern County, California weekend welcomed nitro cars to the second Saturday Night Nitro event of 2013 to Auto Club Famoso...
The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries
Guys and girls who race cars tend to have mucho grande egos. It’s the nature of the business. Great racers never exist in a vacuum by themselves, so it’s inevitable that every great one...
Chadmouth: Paul Harvey and Ram – Plus A Bunch Of Other Whining Bitches
So let me get this straight. Dodge uses a Paul Harvey monologue in a commercial for Ram Trucks during the Super Bowl, thereby creating the best commercial of the game, and arguably one of the most...
Buford T Justice 9C1 Caprice Update: Metal Fab,Head Work, A Good Surprise, An Awful One
As promised, we’re back with another update of Project Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice. In the last installment we took the car to the dyno and thrashed all day bolting on more than 20hp...
Video: Robert Patrick’s Devestating Pro Nitrous Wreck From ADRL Norwalk – Patrick OK
The ADRL tour passed through Norwalk, Ohio recently running their wild equipment down the strip at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. The most violent occurrence of the weekend was the wreck...
Watch the Most Horrendous Crash at the 2012 24 Hours of LeMans – Drivers OK – Cars Annihilated
We missed watching the 24 Hours of LeMans last weekend due to our attendance of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. We did manage to catch some highlights and we saw the replay that you will...
Video: White Knuckle – The Story of the Motorcycle Cannonball – Pre-1916 Motorcycles Going Cross Country!
Brian Darwas, the awesome filmmaker over at AtomicHotRods.com sent us a link to the preview/teaser of his upcoming film entitled, “White Knuckle: The Story of the Motorcycle Cannonball”....