Tag Archive: spotlight
Event Coverage: Tulsa Nitro Nationals Photos Including Derek Snelson’s Fiery Funny Car Run
Tulsa Raceway Park puts on great events each and every week, and last weekends Nitro Nationals were as exciting as we expected. It may have been a little more exciting than Derek Snelson was...
Chris Economaki – Greatest American Auto Racing Journalist Who Ever Lived – Dead at 91
It is our sad duty to report that Chris Economaki, the legenadary editor and guiding force of the National Speed Sport News has died at age 91. Amazingly, Economaki began selling copies of the NSSN...
Drag Gallery: Action From The Strip At The Mickey Thompson Street Machine Shootout – Ozark Raceway Park
(Photos by Cory McMahon) – Missourri’s Ozark Raceway Park is a cool facility that hosts a number of shootout events over the course of the season. The track is an older facility and they...
BangShift Exclusive: Larson & Lutz Will Headline Street Car Shootout At NMCA Houston
We’ve just got news that Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz will be headlining an eight-car field of Drag Week style Unlimited street cars running at the Houston NMCA Event November 9-11 . The...
Update: Hotchkis Suspension & AFCO Bushings Transform Our 9C1 Caprice
Well we can officially say that Project Buford T Justice is underway and the transformation from a sad sack, 196,000 mile ex-police vehicle into a fun to drive tire shredder is under way. Using basic...
Watch A Wild Australian Drag Wreck – Firebird Literally Takes Flight! (Driver OK)
BangShift reader Johnny Gaudette tipped us off to a cool YouTube channel that belongs to an Aussie dude who shoots drag races. In rolling through some of his clips, we stumbled upon this crazy video...
Video: Watch Bigfoot Reset the World’s Record For A Monster Truck Jump At 214ft! In Truck and Out!
Laugh at monster trucks all you want but they are some of today’s more incredible competition vehicles. The evidence to back that up is below in video form courtesy of Bigfoot 4×4, the...
Gallery: The Amazing Chevrolet Collection of Dennis Albaugh – We Take You Inside!
(Photos by Chad) – Dennis Albaugh has one of the finest collections of Chevrolet cars in the world and Chad was able to take a tour of it recently as part of the Goodguys Rodfather Tour he is...
Gallery: Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed – A Place Dripping With Pure Awesome
We’ve been following along with Chad’s exploits on the Goodguys Rodfather Tour all week and the fun continues today with this fantastic gallery from “Speedy” Bill...
Watch Hilarious Video of an English Kiddie Ride Converted Into a Drag Car!
One of the best parts about drag racing is the fact that most of us in the sport have a pretty good sense of humor. From guys who take massive, heavy cars and make them haul ass on the strip to dudes...
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...
