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Truck racer Mike Ryan sues ChampTruck founder; series suspends operations – Legal Papers Here

Truck racer and stunt driver Mike Ryan recently filed a legal complaint against ChampTruck World Series founder and CEO John Condren in Los Angeles County court, prompting Condren to file his own...

Listen Up! The WFO Podcast Features BangShifty Goodness – Talking Pro Stock and More!

Well that pro stock column really got some attention last week! Between a ton of people reading it and lots of great comments it also resulted in an appearance on the WFO podcast which is hosted by...

NMCA All-American Nationals Action – A Last Blast Of Greatness From Indy

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – Well we have showed you plenty of drag racing, drifting, and pit action thus far from the 2016 NMCA All-Amercian Nationals in Indy. The event was held under tough...

What I Do In My Spare Time – Hot Chicks And Nitro Funny Cars!

(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Darr Hawthorne and Jesse Benson) – In addition to contributing to BangShift.com, one of the occasional jobs I’ve got is providing “picture...

Big Fun In A Little Package – Drag Racing Smart Cars At A Historic Strip For A Good Cause (Video)

Many of you out there in BangShiftland are familiar with our pal Kevin Tetz. You have seen him on TV for years and his writing appears in magazines like Car Craft and others. The guy is a really cool...

Jay Leno Checks Out Two Hertz Shelby GT350Hs, One New, One Old. We Don’t Know Which One We’d Take First…

It was the best worst idea anybody ever had. Take about a thousand Shelby Mustangs…you know, one of those really hopped-up ones some Texas chicken farmer whipped up and set loose on racetracks...

Check Out This Footage From The 2016 Croatia Trophy – Slogging Through The Endurance Test!

Ever have someone crow on and on about going off-road, only to find out that all they did was drive down a dirt road? I’m sorry, but there is a lot more to off-roading than leaving the safety...

Old School Huge: This 1978 Chevy Stepside Is The 1980s Pro Street Car Of Trucks And We Love It

I quite literally learned to read with National Dragster and honed my skills on Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off-Road. I still get that magazine delivered to the house today and have for more of my...

Question Of The Day: What Late Model Car Do You Think Will Make The Next Great Hot Rod?

  Until I found this 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis on eBay, I wouldn’t have even bothered with this question. After all, late-model cars (for the sake of this discussion, anything newer than...

Project Hay Hauler: An Engine Swap Along With An Overdrive Trans You Didn’t See Coming!

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – If you have been following along on our Project Hay Hauler, ’67 GMC C1500 pickup, owned by our contributor Scott Liggett, you would have seen how he has...

Planes of Fame: A Look At The Awesome Machines Of The Chino Air Show

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – There may not be anything more patriotic around this time of the year as is a local historic airshow. The yearly Airshow at the Planes of Fame Air Museum...

How Do You Even….What The…..Clearly This Chevy Truck Was Attacked By A Monster Of Some Sort

We’re at a loss here. Typically we can look at some of the stuff we find on the IAAI.com site and do some armchair forensic work on to determine what happened. Mashed a telephone pole? Easy....

This Australian Couple Got So Annoyed With Their Dodge Journey They Had Someone Drive A Tank Over It (Video)

We have all had a car that we hated so much we wanted to see it crushed, right? Well as many of us as have had those feelings few, if any of us actually acted on them. The same cannot be said for an...

Trar-Rod: This 1977 Nova Has Big Tires, A Cage, Lots of Horsepower, And A Spoiler

BangShifter Rob Miller sent us this hot off the presses tip yesterday and we thought that you’d want to see it today. Why? This is one of the more interesting trars we have ever seen because it...