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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Journal Continues – Header Flames Galore On A Beautiful Friday Night

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – If there is one thing that people love about going to the drag races it is seeing records set. Track records, national records, whatever it is, those little slices of...

King Of The Streets 2015: Pit Photos From The Showdown At Great Lakes Dragaway

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – Combining the elements of an awesome, historic drag strip with the new wave movement of no-prep drag racing  was the name of the game at the King of the Streets...

Watch The 3,000hp, All Steel, 1963 Dodge Known As Bad Judgement Clean House At King Of The Streets

The King of the Streets event at Great Lakes Dragaway had an unlimited class for the first time last weekend and that meant that some big tire, huge horsepower cars showed up to take on the unprepped...

Check Out The Footage From The Windrock ORV Bounty Hill: Carnage And Crashes

Two weeks ago Brian showed you a violent crash involving Bubba Bacon’s rock bouncer at Windrock ORV’s Bounty Hill. What you saw was a giant, tube-framed beast of an off-roader flying down...

This 1969 Ford Country Sedan Is A 429 Powered, Detroit Locker Equipped, BangShifty Hunk Of Wagon Perfection

When I first found this wagon on eBay I needed to leave the room for a couple of minutes because the blood started to rushing away from my brain and into…errr…other areas. When I think of...

Project Raven: Selling Mouse Fur and When In Doubt, Get A Bigger Hammer

We’ve been hammering away at Project Raven, quite literally. The 400ci big block we picked up for $400 looked like hell when we opened it up, and we honestly had our doubts about whether or not...

This Video Profile Of Legendary Automotive Designer And Artist Steve Stanford Is Well Worth The Watch

If you have opened a car magazine that deals with hot rods, muscle cars, or kustoms over the last couple of decades, it is a virtual guarantee that your eyes have feasted on the work of Steve...

Wheelstand Wednesday! Street Outlaws AZN Drags The Bumper On Dung Beetle

The Street Outlaws guys are a bunch of characters, and most seem to be guys that half the people love and half the people hate. AZN is a little different. He takes a lot of fire. I think it might be...

ACED: Autocross Every Day! Mike King Scares The Cones In His C2 Corvette

That’s right folks, ACED: Autocross Every Day. Here at BangShift APEX we think everyone should get a taste of autocross action each and every day. So unless you have a course of your own at...

Do You Believe That The State Of Drag Racing Is Better Or Worse Than 20 Years Ago?

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times…” All the race tracks near me are gone.” And that’s not just from Drag Racers, but since this is...

Have Any Of You Ever Seen One Of These? Is It A Pump Or Compressor?

Driving in L.A. traffic yesterday evening I was passed by an oil transport truck that had this mounted to the front. It caught my eye and I looked at it and mentally scratched my head. Traffic got in...

Extra Goodguys Autocross Action Photos From Indy!

We didn’t even realize we had these extra Goodguys Autocross action photos, but when we found them we had to share. Big thanks to Big Mike Mendenhall at Ridetech for shooting these bad boys and...

Bonus Photos From The Prolong Twilight Cruise At The NHRA Museum

I still can’t get over how nice the weather is here in Southern California. I’ve lived here 9 years and it seems like just when you start to take it for granted another really awesome day...

The Final Of The McLeod Stick Shift Shootout Was A Gear Jamming, Clutch Dumping Affair In Norwalk

While the automatic transmission has certainly taken the volume lead in the sport of drag racing, there’s a bunch of guys left who are stuck doing it the hard way and we love them all. As if...