Tag Archive: spotlight
Video: Watch A Huge Plymouth Stock Eliminator Car Pull A Bumper Dragging Wheelstand and Never Lift!
Stock and Super Stock cars are known for pulling great wheelstands, but this is beyond the pale! The driver of this humongo Plymouth, which we think is a C/SA (C stock automatic) machine launches of...
Gallery: Drag Week 2012 Action and Pit Photos From the Texas Motorplex
(Photos by Justin Oney) – Over the coming days we’re going to have a bunch of cool stories and stuff looking back over the madness that was Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012. While I was up...
Drag Week Update: Nuclear Drag War in Oklahoma – Larson, Lutz, Barry All Crest 200mph!
Let it be known, Monday was the quickest and fastest Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week competition day in the history of the event, which is now in its eighth running. Three cars crested the two hundred...
Drag Week Gallery and Info: Some Carnage, Some Big Numbers, and Some Awesome Cars
When Drag Week day one 2005 happened, there were about 45 cars on the grounds to attack KCIR on that fateful day in September. Today, more than 200 cars went though the tech inspection process, many...
Event Coverage: Hundreds Of Action Photos From The 2012 Yellow Bullet Nationals
Our boy Joe Grippo was at it again this weekend and got his photo finger all fired up at the Yellow Bullet Nationals. He sent us more than 300 photos and as usual got not only great wheels up on...
Crash Photo Sequence: Out Of Control Nitro Outlaw Pro Mod Impala At Ardmore Dragway
Chris Graves with Max Cackle Photography sent us this cool crash sequence from the recent Hot Rod Reunion at Ardmore Dragway in Oklahama. Aubrey, Texas driver Bebo Chandler took a wild ride in his...
BangShift Exclusive: Chevrolet Performance’s Dr. Jamie Meyer Talks COPO… Indy… The Future
Undoubtedly one of the biggest stories in drag racing heading into this weekend’s NHRA US Nationals is the official arrival of the COPO Camaro from Chevrolet Performance. The fruits of nearly...
Disney’s Art of Animation CARS Resort – America’s Coolest Gearhead Hotel (Big Photo Gallery!)
Last week, Chad did a killer job pulling the shift lever on the blog while I escaped to Florida for a family vacation with my wife Kerri and my sons, Tom and Jack. It just so happened that we...
The 2012 World Series of Drag Racing, Cordova Dragway – Epic BangShift Photo Gallery
(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke) – In the realm of drag racing history, they don’t get any more historic and/or cool than the World Series of Drag Racing held at Cordova Dragway...
Aussie Vs. American Burnout Video: We Fuel The Fire In Search Of Truth, Conflict, and Video!
On Monday this week we ran yet another great Australian burnout video. On Tuesday we ran an American burnout video. The comments, bashing, and bragging started up immediately and we love it. So today...
Photo Exclusive: Did Blowfish Crash? Rumors Are Flying, But It Was Spinning And Here’s Proof!
Major thanks to Tim Lenahan and his 800mm lens for snapping these photos of Blowfish spinning at Bonneville last week. When Tim asked if we wanted them we of course said yes, and are now sharing them...
Insane Project Introduction: The Chicken Coupe – The Yin To Buford T Justice’s Yang
(Words and Photos by Matt Graves and Jon Clark) – (Editor’s Note – We got some flack when we decided to call our Caprice “Buford T Justice” because Buford drove Pontiacs...
Flying Streamliners, Spinning Roadsters, and More at Bonneville Speed Week 2012
Holy Crap! Today was nuts. Seriously nuts. By shear dumb luck and determination we happened to be at the perfect spot to catch some real pucker factor “stuff” going down at the top end of...
