Tag Archive: spotlight
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Tommy Lee Byrd’s Favorite Photos Of 2012 – Races, Shows, Cool Stuff!
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – This year gave me lots of opportunities for cool pictures, as I rarely had a free weekend without some sort of car show, drag race or other motorsports...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Joe Grippo’s Favorite Images From 2012
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – (Editor’s note: Joe Grippo was our very first photo contributor to BangShift. He’s OG as far as Chad and I are concerned!) I don’t remember...
Best of 2012: Wild Video of a Funny Car Driver Getting Bathed In Boiling Hot Trans Fluid And Escaping
Driving a Funny Car, whether it is powered by a blown alky engine, a nitro mill, or even a gas motor takes real courage. This video is proof in living color. My pal Jon Wall owns and drives the...
Best of BangShift 2012: The English Brothers With Their Jag and MG Drag Machines – Feature!
Few classes were weirder and wilder than the old NHRA Modified Sports Car ranks. The Modified Sports classes had their own rules which were similar to the gas classes and the resulting creations...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Dave Nutting’s Favorite Shots From 2012 – Racing, Shows, Thrashing, and More!
(Words and Photos by Dave Nutting) – 2012 was quite the year for me as a photographer in terms of new experiences. It is hard for me to believe, but I’ve only been shooting photos for these...
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BANGSHIFT.COM!
Merry Christmas! Brian and I, along with all our families and BangShift.com sponsors, would like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry Christmas. While we are frying up turkey here on...
FREE March Meet LIVE Replay 2012: BangShift.com’s Exclusive Broadcast From Famoso
Did you miss the March Meet this year? Watch it in it’s entirety right here through Christmas. It will conclude on Wednesday and then we’ll replay the 2012 Street Car Supernationals from...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2013 Ford Raptor – We Drag It, ‘Wheel It, and Jump It!
(Photos by Tom Phair, Kerri Lohnes, and the author) – The most commonly asked question we had during our time with the 2013 Ford SVT Raptor was, “Is that thing fun to drive?” The...
Best of BangShift 2012: The1967 Shelby GT500 Barn Find – Found in Death Valley California
When we got the call from our pal Jon at Tube Chassis Designz that we needed to get down to his shop to see something cool, we jumped in the car and went. We were greeted with one of the coolest...
Gallery: More Great Photos From the Belair Plaza Outlaw Car Show at The 2012 Daytona Turkey Run
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we dropped a load of about 100 photos on your from the Belair Plaza “outlaw” car show that breaks out at the Daytona Turkey Run event every...
Show Gallery: The Belair Plaza Cruise – 2012 Daytona Turkey Run – Pro Street, Hot Rods, and More!
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – The huge gathering of hot rodder known as the yearly Daytona Turkey Run has its own traditions. One of those traditions is an “outlaw” car show at a...
Coyote Den: This Harmless Looking T-Bird Is One Of The Coolest Sleepers We Have Ever Seen
(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tube Chassis Designz) – We all love sleepers. Whether it is the idea of smashing someone with a flashy ride in the mouth (figuratively speaking) with something that...
Car Show Photos: Operation Santa Toy Drive Car Show By La Habra Lions Club
Our SoCal dude on the street Newell Ruggles was back at it this weekend shooting photos at the Operation Santa Toy Drive Car Show hosted by the La Habra Lions Club. He sent us a bunch of cool photos...
Videos: Quarter Mile Dirt Drag Racing In Sonora, Mexico – Recent Videos of Haul Ass Cars On Dirt!
At least we think is it Sonora, Mexico. It could be Sonora, Texas but either way, what you’ll see in the videos below is pretty wild. This isn’t dirt racing like trucks dirt racing, this...