Tag Archive: spotlight
Watch a Nitrous Pop Blow the Scoop Off of a Mustang Drag Race Car and Then Kill the Roof Camera!
As you know, we’re easily entertained around here, so when we saw this video of a Mustang suffering a nitrous backfire at Houston Motorsports Park we wanted to share it. While this certainly...
Question of the Day: What is the Most Under Appreciated Platform to Build a Hot Rod Off Of?
Don Garlits had a great line back in the 1960s. He said that when he told people he was a professional drag racer, they looked at him in the same way they look at a kid who asked for a pony and...
Watch a Fuel Altered Launch Like a Moon Rocket When the Wheelie Bar Breaks at Santa Pod
While we respect and admire racers that run in classes where wheelie bars are outlawed, there are lots of cars that really need them. Among those cars that need wheelie bars to keep from becoming low...
Watch Denver Schutz’s High Speed March Meet Wall-Banger From the Top End – Wild Footage!
Denver Schutz’s high speed encounter with the wall at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield during the March Meet sure was scary. We ran a killer sequence of photos from the incident here on the blog,...
Follow Our Mission to Bring Project Buford T Justice Home LIVE!
By the time you read this, the fun mission to drive our new 1987 Caprice 9C1 project car from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts will have begun. We’re cruising down to PA today, collecting up the...
Event Gallery: More Photos From the 2012 Run to the Coast
(Photos by Elana Scherr) – The rave reviews and fun stories continue to come in from last weekend’s “Run to the Coast” pro touring event, held at the old El Toro Air Base in...
Watch Spectators Set a Barbed Wire Booby Trap and Wreck a Baja Buggy at the SCORE San Felipe 250
In my conversations with Bill Caswell and a few other guys who have participated in desert races like the Baja 1000 and others, the subject of spectator booby traps has come up. Mostly they are...
Introducing Project Buford T Justice – Our 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice – The Adventure Begins!
Just like the title says, this is the official introduction for the first real deal project car we have done here at BangShift. I am calling this 1987 9C1 Caprice, “Buford T Justice” in...
Watch a Russian Rally Team Survive One of the Worst Rally Wrecks Ever at WRC Mexico
There are wreck and then THERE ARE WRECKS. This one falls in the second category and displays just how toughly little rally cars are built. Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov and his co-driver...
Event Gallery: The 2012 American Street Car Series Run to the Coast
(Photos by Bill Fowler) – The American Street Car Series is a cool group that puts on a great series of events aimed at Pro Touring cars all over the country. As they have in years past, the...
BangShift Exclusive: George Bryce Speaks Out about the Current Situation in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle
At last weekend’s NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida an interesting thing happened. Pro Stock Motorcycle became the talk of the town. Harley Davidson rider Eddie Kraewic had cracked...
Tech: How JPC Racing Made 1,032hp From a Ford Coyote 5.0L Engine With a Paxton NOVI 2200 Huffer
(Words and Photos by Mike Galimi) – The shop is silent as the garage door opens and the drafty night air enters into JPC Racing’s chassis dyno room. It was judgment time for the company’s...
Lucas Oil Signs Lifetime Sponsorship Agreement With Chris Karamesines
Not that you need any more convincing about the total radness of Lucas Oil, but their announcement from Friday letting the world know that they had signed a lifetime sponsorship agreement with living...
BangShift Pro Touring Tech: The Basics of Traction Made Easy!
(By Dave Nutting) – (Editor’s Note: As we get ready to unveil our newest project car later this week, which is going to burn corners and the strip, we are going to be bringing you more...