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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Mighty Mites: Sometimes It Is Better to Buy Older When It Comes To Yard Tractors And Here’s Why!

(By Greg Rourke) – For various reasons, I haven’t built any cool rods are done much noteworthy for over 30 years. I always read all the magazines, attended a few races and car shows, and...

Breaking News: Chevrolet Unveils The Camaro SS Drag Race Development Program Cars! Exclusive In-Depth Photos Here

It sat in the center of the building…obviously a sixth-generation Camaro SS, but wearing the kind of swirly camo you see on prototype test mules. Normally, you don’t see Hoosier drag...

SEMA 2016: We Snuck In During Monday Setup To Show You Neat Stuff!

We’re are HERE at SEMA 2016 and we’ll be rocking it hard all week to show you the coolest new parts, the coolest new builds, and the stuff that you want to see from the most humongous,...

Gallery: Southeast Gassers Action From Mt. Park Dragway – Coolest Cars In The Country!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – When we first heard the SEG was going to make the haul to Mt. Park Dragway we knew for sure this was a must-see event.  This is the furthest-North event...

eBay Find: Want To Buy A Former SEMA Show Car? This 2015 Wide Body Mustang Was A Hit Last Year

Ever wonder what happens to many of the hundreds and hundreds of show cars that are built and displayed at SEMA every year? Here’s a hot tip: Go to eBay and type: SEMA in the search bar and...

Watch Cruz Pedregon Make The Most Incredible Run In NHRA Funny Car History

The best thing about the sport of drag racing is that you literally do not know what is going to happen one minute to the next. For instance, funny car at the NHRA Toyota Nationals last weekend was...

Lohnes’s Two Favorite Cab Over Trucks From SEMA 2015 – One Ford and One Chevy

If you had told the engineers and designers that were making these trucks come to life decades ago that the yeoman equipment they were working on would be considered iconic Americana in the next...

Pro Commuter Perfection: This 1991 Oldsmobile Calais Quad 442 W41-R Is The Perfect Daily. No, Really!

Before you say one word, I want to lead with the horsepower ratings for some of the better choices in vehicles for 1991: basic Corvette had either 245 or 250 horsepower, depending on your axle...

Project Angry Grandpa: Our First Test With The New Setup At Beech Bend – How Close Are We To The 12-Second Goal?

You are damn skippy that I was going to take the new and improved Chrysler out to Beech Bend the first chance I got! After thrashing earlier in the week to give old Gramps a bit more get-up-and-go,...

Random Car Review: 2017 Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback RS Premium

SEMA is kicking off in Las Vegas and I’m about sixty miles away in Pahrump, Nevada. What am I doing out here, you ask? Chevrolet has invited a bunch of people out to…well, at the time...

You Just Might Need This 4×4 Pacer In Your Life

The American Motors’ Pacer will, for better or worse, be one of the best-remembered cars in the company’s checkered past. Ungainly and overweight, it was the byproduct of a lot of things gone...

The World Rally Championship Will Be Faster in 2017, Which Means Both Big Crashes and Improved Safety

The FIA World Rally Championship is already faster than the mind-blowing Group B rally days of the 1980s and with new regulations forthcoming in 2017, stage rally will actually be getting even...

RideTech To Debut New Instinct Electronic Shock System At SEMA – Powered by DSC Sport

RideTech is unleashing a torrent of great new products at SEMA this year and we told you about just two of them yesterday. The StreetGrip system for early Mustangs is cool and something that will...

Would You Rather, 1960s Four-Door Compact Edition: Five-Car Bonanza!

I am unabashedly a fan of 1960s American compacts. That said, I don’t have a grand preference for one over the other, though I do like some aspects of certain cars: the early Mercury Comet’s...