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Crazy Awesome eBay Find: The Tow Rig and Rocket Car of Fearless Fred Goeske
“Fearless” Fred Goeske is a true drag racing legend. Through the 1960s and 1970s he terrorized strips from coast to coast in a series of awesome Funny Cars that were nitro powered to...
Breaking News: The East Coast Timing Has Officially Landed a New Home at Wilmington Air Park!
Just a couple of hours ago, the East Coast Timing Association was given permission to hold land speed racing events at the Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, Ohio for the 2012 season. This includes...
Drag Video: The Baddest Dodge D-100 Truck in History
If you follow the NHRA’s Get Screened America Pro Mod series, there’s not doubt you are familiar with the name Peter Farber. He runs the immaculate Dodge Charger Daytona Pro Mod that...
Barnstormin’: A Drag Week Question Answered
When Larry Larson made the first six second lap in the history of Hot Rod’s Drag Week last year, I gulped a little. While the individual performance was amazing and noteworthy on many levels, I...
Racing Junk Find: A Blown 1963 Dodge 440 Wagon!
The styling department at Chrysler gets whizzed on a lot for their designs that hit the streets in the early 1960s. Virgil Exner led the unit and gets most of the criticism for the odd looking cars,...
History! Poteet and Main Speed Demon Runs 462-MPH at Bonneville!
It is being reported by multiple sources that the Poteet and Main “Speed Demon”, powered by a Kenny Duttweiler built, twin-turbo, 347ci Chevy on alcohol ran the fastest speed ever...
Sprint Carnage Video: A Winged Sprint Car Fights the Roughest Track in History…an Loses
Who knew qualifying could be so hazardous?! Chad’s notes: Wow, this sucks for this dude. If I didn’t know any better, I would say that the staff at Heartland Park Topeka must have prepped...
Question of the Day: Matt Hagan Makes First Three-Second Nitro Funny Car Run of the 1000-Ft Era – Do you Care?
Taking full advantage of the mine shaft air and hard biting track at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina, Matt Hagan and his team became the first to break into the three-second zone on a 1,000ft...
Grunt Force Trauma: The Recovery of Project Brutus – Our 1968 Chevy C50 Wrecker!
Well, I can check the bucket list box that reads, “buy an old heap sight unseen, show up and drive it home 500 miles,” now. The mission to go out and get Brutus, the newest addition to...
Caption This Drag Week Photo: Why the Long Faces?
BangShifter John Gatliff send us the photo you’ll see in large form after the jump and it struck us as funny for a couple reasons. The first, of course is because Chad’s mouth is closed....
Great Tech Video: Detroit Speed’s GM A-Body Suspension Components
BangShift sponsor, Detroit Speed makes suspension components for a variety of Detroit’s finest iron. We’ve ridden in a couple of Chevelles packing their parts and on the last such ride,...
Drag Week 2011 Wrap Up: Winners, BangShifters, and Rain
Gear Vendor’s Drag Week 2011 is over and, as usual, racers around the world are scheming up their newest dream racecar to take down Larry Larson, Todd Maschmeier, or Tim Reed at Drag Week 2012....
LIVE Streaming Video of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Awards Ceremony NOW
We have live streaming video of Drag Week 2011, right here. Visit us daily to see all the coverage right here at BangShift.com including Hot Rod’s Live Coverage, photo galleries, 1320video, and...
Breaking News: Larry Larson Wins His 4th Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Unlimited and Overall Title!
Larry Larson has claimed his fourth Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week title by fighting his way down the Heartland Park drag strip this afternoon in 7.56 seconds. That run, while not a record breaker in the...