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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Celebrating Three Years Of Chevrolet In One Massive Throw-Down!

Bowling Green is home of the Corvette, right? Not this weekend. Right now, Chevrolet’s sports car is taking one huge backseat to the legendary Tri-Five Chevrolets. Be it 150, 210, Bel Air,...

The Bad Obsession Boys Cummins Swap Their Escargot Car Hauler Project

Cummins swapping a square body or something like that has become sort of common, even if it is a lot of work, but when the Bad Obsession Motorsports boys from England decided they needed to dump...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Love To See Return To Drag Racing?

Nitro. Nitrous. Personalities. Actual names on the cars instead of sponsorships. Funny car bodies that don’t look like someone did quick bar-soap art while scrubbing themselves down in the...

Morning Symphony: Bugatti EB110 SS LeMans and IMSA Racers – Stretching The Legs Of Giants

From the moment you first hear the engine and see the livery adorning the body, a race car is all about getting your attention and holding onto it. That’s the truth…most race cars are...

Pro-Jacks: The Most Bad Ass Race Car Accessory You’ll Have That Doesn’t Make It Faster

In this video the always entertaining Tim McAmis talks about Pro-Jacks. On their own, Pro-Jacks won’t make your car quicker or faster, but they are one of the more bad ass things you can have...

Down The Rabbit Hole: The Lost Volkswagen/Checker Taxi Prototype Has Resurfaced!

Checker Motors knew that they had to get their taxi products to be more fuel efficient. They also knew that their Marathon/A11 line was beyond ancient and needed to be replaced as soon as possible....

Old Bikes, New Payday: Old School Kaws take NHDRO’s Biggest Money Ever – Race Report

(Words and photos by Tim Hailey) – The sharpest, most up-to-date tools in the motorcycle drag racing box came out to win NHDRO’s biggest money event ever—the APE Summer Celebration and Big...

Disaster Video: Incredible Footage Of The Yellow River Drag Strip Calamity Has Surfaced – 50 Years Ago, 11 Killed

50 years ago the worst disaster in drag racing occurred at a little known, little spoken about track about 40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was like so many places in...

American Success Story: Mike Salinas Talks Life, Struggle, and Work – From Poverty To Top Fuel

One of the neat things that we get to see each season as part of the NHRAonFox summer race broadcasts is the #MYJourney series. This series of in-depth interviews brings the backstories of the...

Get In On The American Powertrain Summer Smokeout Sweepstakes – It’s FREE To Enter!

The crew at American Powertrain are at it again! This time they have created the Summer Smokeout Sweepstakes, a free to enter giveaway that will net the lucky winner a $300 American Powertrain gift...

Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Action Images: The Nitro Fueled Monsters Acted Like It In Seattle – Check Out These Photos!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – They deserve and they always will deserve their own coverage. The Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Davidson category has been one of the most stunning additions to...

LIVE TONIGHT: Watch The US131 Northern Nationals – Quarter Mile Modern Top Fuel Drag Racing – WATCH HERE

Starting tonight at 6:30pm Eastern time BangShift.com will be LIVE from the US131 Northern Nationals in Martin, Michigan. This is one of the most unique and awesome match races in the country because...

Bonneville Video: Mechanical Music Off Of The Push Truck And Into Infinity

While it is true that big speed is the main draw at Bonneville, gearheads the world over will agree that the sound of a hot rod at full tilt for miles on end is intoxicating. This video gives a great...

One For Life: A 10-Second Slant Six Duster One-Owner Special

You’d swear that the V8 has been replaced with the turbocharged inline-six, the way a lot of the Internet seems to see things. There is no reason to doubt the reasons why…between the...