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Spin and Cringe: Watch A GT350 and A Porsche Spin Off The Track Because Of Oil And Hit Nothing!

Oil is racing’s greatest double edged sword, right? Its lubricity and slipperiness are what make engines live through grueling events like the HSR Classic 12 Hour at Sebring but in the event...

Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018: Between The Bricks And The Boulevard

Walking through the Coker Tire Cruise-In area is a weird feeling. There are a lot of old brown brick buildings that date back to when “industrial” really meant industrial, when things...

Watch One Of The Most Historically Significant 1955 Chevys In Drag Racing History Make A Rip At Thompson Raceway Park

When Dawn-Mazi Hovsepian dropped me a line and directed my limited attention span toward the video you’ll see below, I watched with a smile as one of the most well known, hardest run, and plain...

Track Records And UNFC Nitro Funny Car Championship Flames At Tucson Dragway Reunion!

(Photos by Bob Snyder) – Taking advantage of a near perfect race track and good weather conditions, Bobby Cottrell dominated a strong field of nitro funny cars to win the opening event of the...

Here Is Our Final Group Of Images From The PDRA East Coast Spring Nationals – Tire Smoke, Wheels Up, Big Time Fun

(Photos by David Whealon) – Welp, we have come to the end of our supply of photos from the 2018 PDRA East Coast Spring Nationals. This was a fine way for the PDRA to start their 2018 campaign....

Crazy Story: Tesla Is Flooding Machine Shops With Flawed Parts That Need Rework – This Is Nuts

Elon Musk has said since the beginning that he was not going to operate Tesla like any other car company and so far he has proven himself to be a man of his word…and that’s not always the...

Historic Gearhead Americana Gallery: From Futureliners To 1970s Ford Vans, These Photos Rule

(Photos from the Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – It has been a while since I have roamed the digital stacks at the Detroit Public Library but finding myself with a few minutes the...

BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4×4 – Was The Wait Worth It?

Call it a Ram, call it a Dodge, call it whatever you want…but know one fact above all others about Ma Mopar’s pickup truck design theory: you wait until you’ve bled out every last...

Outlaw Street Car Reunion V: The Battle In Bowling Green Is About To Go Down!

Outlaw Street Car Reunion V is a GO! Trailers are stacking up at Beech Bend in Bowling Green and yesterday, cars were making test hits while the track was getting sorted out and set. This weekend is...

Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018: Running From The Storm Through A Field Of Iron

With the winds starting to finally spool up and the clouds starting to darken over the mountains towards the west, the pace had to be picked up if the rest of the Coker Tire Cruise-In wasn’t...

Video: An Evel Knievel Jump And The World’s Richest Demolition Derby – Great Footage From 1973

It was February 1973 and Evel Knievel was among the most famous people on Earth. His star would continue rising for another year until his disastrous failure at Snake River Canyon. One of...

BANGshift’s LIVE Streaming Video From The Spring Fling Million In Vegas Starts Wednesday Around Noon!

It’s time for the biggest payout in bracket racing history folks and that means SPRING FLING MILLION IN LAS VEGAS!!! And the live video all starts Wednesday thanks to Jegs and Hoosier!...

Building Blocks: There’s an eBay Listing Featuring 300 Bare Big Block Chevy Blocks For $500,000

So heres’s the latest massive cache of parts that has come up for sale on eBay and it’s biggie. Like the rest of them it carries the same question. Is it worth it? Is this an investment...

2018 PDRA East Coast Spring Nationals – The Killer Action Photos Just Keep On Coming

(Photos by David Whealon) – We’re a long way from 1990, aren’t we? If the pro mod pioneers of the early 1990s could have seen what their class would become, with its own flipping...