Tag Archive: spotlight
Yes, These Guys Built A 1964 Ford Galaxie Baja Racer – It May Be The Coolest Thing Ever (Video)
You can stop rubbing your eyes. That isn’t a photo-shop job, a camera trick, or a ruse. That really is a 1964 Ford Galaxie Baja Racer competing in the NORRA Mexican 1000 with a Dart 427ci...
Incredible: Two Russian Guys, Crash A Guardrail And Land In A River – Neither Really Care
This is literally the Russian dash cam video to end all Russian dash cam videos. It shows a car moving down a country road at a pretty good clip. The driver and passenger are speaking to each other...
Lucky’s Rod Run to the Chicken Oil Company 2014 – A Texas Sized Rod Run!
(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – It is funny how things happen some time. Almost 20 years ago William Lucky of Conroe, Texas happened upon a great restaurant called The Chicken Oil...
Footage From The 1972 Super Stock Nationals – Nitro, Pro Stock, Super Stock, More!
While we’ve never run into a video featuring old drag racing footage we’ve disliked, some are certainly head and shoulders above the rest. This one is about 16 feet above the rest and it...
2015 Mustang And 2015 F150 Are Ford’s Big Stories At Detroit Auto Show – Photos Here
Our photographer on the scene of the 2014 Detroit Auto show continues to send us dispatches from the bustling show floor as hordes of media swarm to whichever display is pouring the free drinks...
2015 Corvette Z06 – Our Photos From The Detroit Auto Show Unveil!
Just a couple hours ago the 2015 Corvette Z06 was unveiled for the assembled press in Detroit. The bad news is that we weren’t there first hand. The good news is that we had someone in the...
BREAKING NEWS: THIS IS THE 2015 FORD F150
Minutes ago, Ford Motor Company released the first official photo of the 2015 Ford F150. This is going to be one of the biggest stories of the 2014 North American International Auto Show. The 2015...
F’ing Awesome Videos: Ride Along With Quain Stott Rips His Four Gear 1941 Willys Gasser
Quain Stott is one of the greatest door slammer drag racers of all time. He was there on the ground floor of Pro Mod and through the years has been a world champion with the IHRA in 2006, a force...
Unobtainium: Entire Race Program From the 1968 Manufacturer’s Funny Car Championships
For you vintage drag-o-philes out there, this gallery will be like manna from heaven. A few years ago we were given an original copy of the race program from the 2nd Annual Manufacturer’s Funny...
Peugeot In Back Of Pickup – This Happened Today! Your Moment of Friday Zen
Peugeot In Back Of Pickup. This was the scene at a local wrecking yard today when a dude pulled in to get rid of a Peugeot that needed getting rid of. We have no idea how they got it in there, but...
Endless Summer Video: Funny Car Match Race Perfection From The World Series
One of the highlights of the 2013 World Series of Drag Racing was the nostalgia nitro funny car action. Les Mayhew was there to record the melee and about a week ago he dropped this awesome video...
Watch Stormy Byrd Smoke The Tires For A Full Quarter Mile At Eagle Field!
If you have watched BangShift’s live streaming coverage of events like the March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion then you have seen Stormy Byrd’s awesome Blown Fuel Modified Roadster...
Project Fat Lane: On The Ground And Looking Absolutely Awesome – To Paint In A Month
Don’t look now, but the multi-year saga of Project Fat Lane, the formerly stock Fairlane turned blown, Heavy Street drag class machine has taken a significant step forward. The car is off the...
The Lencki Six: An Angry Indy Racing Engine Lives Again — Offy On ‘Roids Revived! (w/Video)
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We love running across stuff that you’ve probably never heard of, yet holds a part of automotive racing history. Even if the car, or in this case, the...