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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...
Even More 1320Video from Drag Week 2011: Day 4 Tulsa Action
Day 4 of Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 had all the drama you expect from an event that has put competitors through rain, heat, hills, wind, oil, “challenging” track conditions, and more. Our...
Car Show Gallery: The Womelsdorf, PA 250th Anniversary Car Show
Another day, another great car show gallery from our Pennsylvanian photo contributor Doug Garrison. Recently, Doug attended a car show in Womelsdorf, PA that was part of the town’s year long...
We Pick the Drag Week Winners…Do You Agree?
It is officially crunch time on Drag Week 2011 presented by Gear Vendors. Tomorrow is the last day of competition and there are still a couple of really close battles in the various categories...