Tag Archive: spotlight
Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules
The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....
Watch Kevin Mullins 4.11 Run On 315 Drag Radials! 4,000hp Twin Turbo Hemi!
First off WARNING – THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE AND SWEARING AT THE END OF THIS VIDEO — IF THIS IS A PROBLEM, STOP IT IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU WATCH THE RUN. This is the most incredible...
WINNING: A 1960s Cragar Blower Off An Early Top Fuel Car Has Blown Life Into This Willys Truck
(Words: Brad Klaassen – Photos: Klaassen and Shane Carson, Mar-Car Photo Collection)- It’s no secret drag racers have been reusing performance parts for decades. One man’s trash is...
Lights Out 5, “The Baddest Small Tire Drag Race In The World”, Is LIVE NOW!
That’s right folks, if you like small tire drag racing, and all the fun and excitement that comes with crazy on the bumper drag radial action, you are not going to want to miss Lights Out 5 at...
Battle Of The Roadkill All Stars – Every Running Roadkill Project Gets Thrashed In New Episode
The latest episode of Roadkill dropped today and it is a fun one that pits every running project car from the series against each other in an autocross format. When we say all the running projects...
Video Of Clint Bowyer’s Barrel Roll And Drive Away Is Coolest NASCAR Thing In Forever
I was watching the drag race on my computer and the NASCAR qualifying races on my living room television last night and I couldn’t have predicted that the NASCAR race would produce one of the...
Gallery: Darryl Starbird’s 50th Annual Rod And Custom Car Show – Tulsa, Oklahoma
(Words and photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – It’s still winter in the Heartland, so what’s a race starved gearhead to do? Car shows always help a weekend go by, right? Well, for...
Chrysler Unobtanium: A Real Late 1960s Weslake-Plymouth Indy Engine
The words Chrysler and rare are often found together but the reality is that a 1969-era Plymouth-Gurney Indy car engine is among the most limited edition Mopar engines ever. Outside of a freaking...
Action Gallery: Flying Mud And Much From Dirty Gras 2014 In Crosby, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While most of the rest of the country froze like popsicles the off road crowd in Crosby, Texas had a weekend of fun at the Down South Off Road Park. Our own Charles...
Mint 400 Race Preview Is The Most Intense Four Minutes Of Off Road Racing Video You’ll See
The famed Mint 400 off road race is coming in just a couple of weeks and this four minute preview for the event will have you on the edge of your seat the entire time. This is a reel of jumps, wheel...
Fun Video: A Gumby Short Featuring A T-Bucket, The Drags, High Speed Claymation Chase!
It is kind of amazing to think about but Gumby was on television from 1955-1989. That’s one hell of a run. We can remember watching the short claymation sketches as kids and we’re sure...
Mad Science! A Drag Racer Sliced And Diced A Pair Of LS Heads, Stuck Them Together And Mounted Them On A Ford Inline Six
Now this is really something! A short while back, a thread popped up in the BangShift forums about a racer who had taken a pair of cathedral port LS Chevy cylinder heads, shortened them by one hole a...
A Leaf Blower Supercharger A Decade Before Finnegan and Freiburger Made It Famous
I ran these photos on BangShift years ago, back when the site was read by two people….Chad and I. For whatever reason, I was struck with inspiration to bring them back out and tell the story of...
