Tag Archive: spotlight
Gallery: Another Load of Greatness From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – You’ve been hanging with us all week and checking in on this ongoing photo gallery-fest from the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival by Joe Grippo....
Event Gallery: The Chattanooga Cruise-In – HUGE Show, Tons of Great Photos!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Last Saturday was a great day to be a car guy, with awesome events spanning across the country. One particular event gave southern gear heads a place to...
Video: Robert Patrick’s Devestating Pro Nitrous Wreck From ADRL Norwalk – Patrick OK
The ADRL tour passed through Norwalk, Ohio recently running their wild equipment down the strip at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. The most violent occurrence of the weekend was the wreck...
Gallery: The Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Gallery One
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Joe Grippo attended the first ever Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival last weekend outside of Baltimore at the famed Pimlico Race Course. The...
Video: Champion Speed Shop’s Gov.’s Cup Win Puts Them In The Lead Going Into Bakersfield
The Champion Speed Shop Small Block Chevrolet Powered Top Fuel Dragster has done it again! The rolled into the Governor’s Cup race at Sacramento and not only qualified in the top spot, but also...
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...
