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The Strip At Las Vegas Motor Speedway Is Going 4-Wide. Here’s The Progress So Far

The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been under the knife for the past several weeks as construction is going on to expand the facility from two dragstrip lanes to four. Like their sister track...

Two LeMans Corvettes: C1 and C6.R, Two Different Animals Of The Same Nature

For the most part, we’re guilty of writing off the Chevrolet Corvette as a mid-life play thing, a car you buy when you want to feel youthful again. It’s not that the stereotype...

Check Out All These Vintage Boost Builders We Found Online! Vintage Superchargers And Turbo!

It is amazing what you can find on Craigslist! We first saw the vintage McCulloch Supercharger below and were drooling over it when we decided to do a bit more searching and found the Paxton, Judson,...

BangShift Project Files: What To Do With A Languishing Thunderbird…

The MN-12 Ford Thunderbird. It’s almost a forgotten car at this point…the few I see still running around are on their fourth or fifth owners or they are rotting behind a building...

Classic YouTube: Travis Pastrana’s Moto-X Freestyle Run At The 2000 X-Games

In person, Travis Pastrana is one of the most chill, friendly people you’ll ever meet. If he’s got the time to, he will stick around and chat with you and make you feel like you’re...

Buy A Ready To Run Top Fuel Sand Dragster For Only $35,000!

I have done a lot of racing, but sand drags is one I’ve never tried. I think it would be fun as hell though, especially in something like this! A full fledged Top Fuel Sand Dragster complete...

Dakar 2018: The 40th Running Of The Brutal 14-day Rally Raid Run Kicks Off Today!

Today is the day that teams from around the world will start the 40th running of the Dakar Rally, without question a pinnacle point in automobile racing. It’s an endurance run, it’s a...

2017 Photo Highlight Reel: David Whealon’s Greatest Hits (Part 3)

(Photos by David Whealon) – No, this isn’t David Whealon’s Greatest Hits the singing album, that’s a totally different deal he can tell you about. As promised, we’re...

Behind The Ropes Part 4: The Boys Confront A Monster In Round One – Can They Advance?

So we have followed the Michalek Brothers Racing Team through qualifying and now we are with them for round number one competition. They have to face young phenom Justin Ashley who came onto the top...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Looking Forward To Anything That May Debut At This Year’s Detroit Auto Show?

We’re just a little over a week away from the 2018 North American International Auto Show, a.k.a. the Detroit Auto Show, and we’ve been monitoring the rumor mills and waiting to see what...

Holley Introduces 2300 Two Barrel EFI – Swap Your Two Barrel Equipped Car To EFI Easier – 350hp Capable!

Just when you thought that it couldn’t be easier to make the swap to Holley EFI, the engineers drop this one on us! Holley introduces the 2300 Two Barrel EFI system as a solution for those hot...

Morning Symphony: A Big-Block Malibu Suffering From A Condition Called “Swine Flew”

Racing isn’t going to happen around my neck of the woods anytime soon, it seems. Even my weather app on my phone is getting pretty specific about which body parts are going to freeze off if I...

Want To Go AMC Drag Racing? This 1970 AMC Hornet Goes 10s and Is AMC From Front To Back!

I often (probably too often) say that drag racing is not a beauty contest. Yes, your equipment has to be well maintained and hard running but it does not necessarily have to be ready to be judged for...

Pre-Mustang: This 1963 Mercury Comet S-22 Is A Fun Little Freak Of A Car!

When the Edsel brand was binned in 1959, a project for a smaller vehicle that was originally supposed to be an Edsel branded car got thrown into limbo. Called Comet, the model initially was an orphan...