The Leader in Diesel Performance
Seven seconds. It doesn’t sound like a long period of time does it? Think about it for a minute. Seven seconds. It actually takes longer then seven seconds to even write out the words “seven seconds”. It takes me longer than that to unlock my truck, put on my seat belt, and start the ignition. But in the short span of just about seven seconds, the Banks Sidewinder S-10 drag truck has gone from a dead stop to over 180 miles per hour…
The Automotive Hall of Fame has selected Gale Banks to receive one of their 2009 Distinguished Service Citations.
Banks Power exhibited a very cool new “Banks Marine” power unit at the just-concluded Miami International Boat Show. MARINE MEDIA ADVISORY: Here’s a little bit of “insider
Gale Banks set to receive the Automotove Hall of Fame’s 2009 Distinguished Service Citation in New Orleans.
Pomona, California – – On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, fifty years of automotive and marine engineering innovation was put on display at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports
There were a lot of horses and a lot of power in a Fairplex museum on Wednesday. But it had nothing to do with a barn.
Gale Banks calls himself a “futurist.” So, what is a futurist doing in a museum?
Some 15 very eager students from the Centro Educativo Grupo Cedva in Mexico City recently toured the Banks facility in Azusa, California. They were given an up-close and personal look at many of the manufacturing processes: from design and prototyping, through production, right on to the boxing and shipping of the final product.
Q: When did the first turbocharged car appear at the Indy 500?
A: It was in 1952, and the car was not only turbocharged but it was a Cummins diesel – a first for both!
I spent last weekend (not this one that just passed but the other one) in Las Vegas with my buddies from Bosch. We were in the city of sin to set up Bosch’s Learning Center for the Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference that was being held there. It’s kind of hard to think of diesel as an “alternative” fuel since it’s been around for such a long time, but it’s lumped into the same category as all of the future fuels that are making headlines these days. I’m going to list these different fuels in an upcoming blog and go over what makes them real – or just plain wishful thinking…