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Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
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Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
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Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
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Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
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Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a water speed record attempt, and made untold hundreds of runs at drag strips and events across north America between 1962 and [...]
Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) – I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit, don’t believe them for a second. Few other activities are as effective at nurturing the problem solving and task-completion facets of the human brain as [...]
Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Last time we visited Dennis Spal at his High Speed Welding shop in Westmont, Illinois he was finishing up the mechanical restoration of Grumpy’s Toy X. That car was verified as the real deal by Grumpy himself. Recently Dennis invited me over to see his latest project, a [...]
Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift was in full force at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion this past weekend, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With Brian on the microphone, Chad manning the live feed and Charles Wickam shooting still photos, it was pretty much a wall-to-wall Bangshift weekend. But wait, there’s more! [...]
Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Any Taub was competing at Atco Dragway recently in her rear engine sportsman dragster. From the looks of the dial in board, this is a very low 7-second dragster, so we can safely assume that the car runs about 200mph and that means we can also assume that by half track it is making about [...]
Wild Video: Ride Along On A GSXR 750 Powered Go Kart As It Attacks A Road/Autocross Course – Awesome!
Posted in RACING & ACTION June 19, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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When the first comment on a YouTube video is, “Do you like having steel balls?” you know something cool is contained in that digital footage. The fact is, anyone loony enough to (a) build a freaking go kart with a Gixxer engine on it and then (b) skilled enough to actually drive it at any [...]
Holley’s 110th Birthday Bash: You Get The Gifts! Buy Stuff And Get Free Stuff. Our Kind Of Birthday Party!
Posted in Sponsor News June 19, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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Holley is celebrating 110 years of mixing air and fuel so that internal combustion engines can make horsepower, all while putting smiles on the faces of drivers. It’s that simple. Sure, they’ve made huge strides to make the Holley Carburetor the most efficient and powerful carburetor on the planet, and their Ultra Dominators are proof [...]
Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
Posted in Car Features June 19, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a water speed record attempt, and made untold hundreds of runs at drag strips and events across north America between 1962 and [...]
Video Bonanza: Blow Overs! From Doorslammers To Top Fuel – Flying High And Landing Hard
Posted in CRASH & BURN June 19, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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The blow over is one of drag racing’s most violent and spectacular sights. While front engine sling shots have been power wheelie-ing themselves over backward for ages (see the King and Marshall caster wheel), the “blow over” as we know it seems to have been birthed with the advent of the “modern” rear engine dragster. [...]
Island Dragway Reopening July 5th With 3-Day Bracket And Nostalgia Event! – GREAT NEWS!
Posted in General News June 19, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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After a tumultuous 6 months, Island Dragway in New Jersey is proud to announce that they will be reopening July 5th, 2013! And in a show of force, the event is not just going to be some test and tune Friday night deal, it’s the first of three days of drag racing that will kick [...]
Ebay Find: Divorced…What Brian Will Be Once He Acquires This Bitchin 1949 GMC Wrecker
This is another Scott Payton submission, part of our daily email loop that includes motorhomes or box trucks, and the occasional wrecker. Of course, there is nobody we know that would look better driving this thing than our own Brian Lohnes, although we are also certain that they wide bench seat will come in handy [...]
Gallery: The 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals – Lover Of The Blue Oval Bridage? CLICK HERE!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it was a hit and miss weekend at the 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals. More of a hit, really. Rain killed most of Friday including my favorite activity, the Friday Night Drags at Quarter Aces. Saturday dawned bright and sunny and the Ford folks came to Carlisle [...]
Video: Banging Gears In A Jerico Equipped ’67 427 Fairlane Nostalgia Super Stocker
Posted in RACING & ACTION June 19, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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The Hayes family is all about FE powered 4 speed racing, and we are glad to know it! Earl and Dave sent us this great video of their ’67 427 Fairlane at I-57 Dragstrip a couple weekends ago, as it’s being expertly rowed through the gears. We aren’t sure, but we think it is Earl [...]
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Person In The Gearhead Realm Inspires You?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? June 19, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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By now if you have been reading BangShift for any length of time you know that I am a certified history nerd. I revel in learning about cool races, upsets, maverick innovators, crazed racers, single minded leaders, and all of the other zillions of things that come along with those elements. The high performance and [...]
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Rock and Roll” The Cadillac Edition by Led Zeppelin (2002)
Posted in BS Daily Tune Up June 19, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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Surprisingly, this is the first song by Led Zeppelin ever used in a commercial. I would never have guessed that, but when Cadillac decided in 2002 that this was going to be the song that launched the new “Breakthrough” ad campaign for Cadillac, history was being made in more ways that one. Of course Led [...]
Win Cash From Champion Spark Plugs By Sending In A Photo Of Your Car: This Is Super Simple!
Posted in General News June 18, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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So simple even a BangShifter can do it is what they must have been thinking. And the great thing is all of you guys are out driving your cars right now, or have great photos of it from Power Tour and that means you could win anywhere from $500 to $5000 dollars from Champion. It’s [...]
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