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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The One Driving Event You Most Want To Attend This Year?

Yesterday’s BangShift Question of the Day asked what modifications you most want to make to your car this year, and one of the responses struck me as particularly interest. The Varmit said...

The 2014 Hangover Nationals At Dragway 42 – Snow Plows and Big Strip Improvements!

(Photos and captions by Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian) – The 15th running of the vaunted Hangover Nationals at Ohio’s recently reinvigorated Dragway 42 was a smash hit with 150 cars and trucks...

Korean Rocket: We Cruise The $70,000 Hyundai Equus – Old School Luxury With Big Power

When the question begins with, “Interested in driving…”  I usually cut the person asking the question off and blurt out yes before they can finish. That’s what I did when the...

You Could Win $500 From MSD Just By Taking THis Survey — Other Great Prizes, Too!

Boy do we have a great deal for you. Spent literally five minutes taking this survey from MSD Performance and be entered to win $500 or a prize package of cool MSD schwag, or a hat! The survey asks...

Funny Video: Watch A Pair Of Canadian Rednecks Flip a Mini Into A Ditch!

Canada. America’s Hat. Land of moose, Pamela Anderson, a maybe not-so-surprising variety of beers, and people that remain polite and courteous to a fault, even when they are busy wrecking a 2002...

Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way For Sale – Own A Historic Eighth-Mile Track For Less Than Half A Million!

Did you receive a big windfall of cash for Christmas? Do you want to own a drag strip? Are you a fan of fun? Then boy do we have a deal for you! Become the newest member of the drag strip...

Nitro Burning, Header Flaming, Ass Kicking Top Fuel Motorcycle Run As You’ve Never Seen Before!

One of the most significant and significantly under reported occurrences in drag racing during the 2013 season happened late in the racing year. Said moment was the final round match up of...

Canadian Tire Commissioned A Functional Ice Truck And They Used It To Break A World Record….This Is A Thing That Happened

They’ve gone and done it now. Those rabble rousing sons-a-bitches at Canadian Tire have pushed the world to the brink of war with their latest attention seeking, headline making, world record...

Check Out This 1948 Ford COE Ramp Truck We Found On Craigslist!

Our pal, and epic BangShifter, Dannie Pinard sent this ad for a 1948 COE Ramp Truck to us yesterday with nothing more in the email than “I want this ramp truck…”. We couldn’t...

The Retro-Awesome Rocket Fire Wheel Will Be Available In Spring 2014 — Available Bolt Patterns and Sizes Here!

We told you all about the new Rocket Fire wheel that’s on the way from Rocket Racing Wheels when the design debuted at SEMA but the one thing we didn’t know was when you’d be able...

Craigslist Find: Nutting Finds You The “Class Killer” For The New SCCA Pro Touring Class

If you’re anything like me (And if so, God help you), you’re pretty excited about the new Regional class that the SCCA is looking to establish for old iron: CAM, or “Classic American Muscle”....

BangShift 2013 Photo Highlight Reel: Scott Liggett’s Big Year Of Shows, Races, Bonneville, And Cruising Across The Country

(Words and photos Scott Liggett) – As one of the Bangshift contributors, I had a slower year in 2013. There was a big change in my life this year that prevented me from turning in my usual...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Modification Do You Most Want To Make To Your Hot Rod This Year?

Yesterday Nutting put up our BangShift Question of the Day and asked you what your hot rodding resolutions were going to be for 2014. Well, today we’re asking one that is a little bit...

Bitchin Fuel Altereds Footage, Including Fire Burnouts, From LA Country Raceway 1986

The now defunct, LACR aka LA Country Raceway in Palmdale, was one of the icon dragstrips of Southern California back in the day. I got to run there twice, and have the distinction of running the last...