Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Kansas City Cash Days Video: Street Racing In Kansas City Mexico with an EPIC Final Race! Big Matchups And Some Serious Side By Side Racing.

Boy oh boy were the Kansas City Cash Days something to see! Street racing in Kansas has always been strong, I mean we’re talking for decades, but it has been a while since the guys at 1320...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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This Video Profile Of The MadSam Aussie Drift Car Is Great – Ford Guys Rejoice!

Obviously the Australians are crazy about their skid cars. It is a pretty fascinating scene because we don’t have it up here. The guys at Street Machine Magazine recently profiled a car called...

Hot Parts: COMP Cams Ultra-Gold ARC Shaft Mount Aluminum Rocker System For FE Engines

2017 is a great year for fans of the Ford FE engine! We have already told you about new heads and intake manifolds being introduced for this venerable big block and these valve train parts in the...

Watch The Sportsman Class Eliminations From The 1976 NHRA World Finals – Tony Christian and More

We love this old NHRA videos and we especially love the ones that feature sportsman racing because the names and cars are always interesting. The NHRA finals are coming up in a couple of weeks so we...

How’s That Smoked Gap Taste? Larry Larson And The S-10 From Hades Win While Smoking The Tires The Whole Way!

If you have ever been looking for a measuring stick to determine whether or not you are a bad ass, this video is pretty much all need to see. If you are able to control a 3,500hp truck that is trying...

Weird Science Video: Here’s How Nitromethane Gets Made In A Laboratory

Nitromethane is the coolest most exotic, most expensive, and most powerful racing fuel in the world. It is also kind of mysterious liquid. The video we stumbled upon below shows how nitromethane is...

Morning Symphony: Going A To B In One Nasty Camaro

“Blunt force trauma”. I have a fascination with the connotation behind this phrase when it’s applied to a machine. It quickly describes the nature of the beast: there is no grace,...

2017 Nitro Nationals Coverage From Tulsa! Ladies Ruled In Top Fuel and Funny Car

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – It was a first for the world of nostalgia drag racing last month in Tulsa. Never before had women won both top fuel and nitro funny car at a Heritage Series event...

Old School Fun At An Old School Strip – Nostalgia Drag Racing Action At Elk Creek Dragway!

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – In the mountains of the southwest end of Virginia is a little track by the name Elk Creek Dragway. On September 29-30, the facility hosted a pre-1964...

10 Years Ago John Force and Kenny Bernstein Had A Massive Wreck At The Texas Motorplex – Full Video Here

It was a holy disaster that was reminiscent of another chilling and iconic drag racing crash. When John Force’s chassis slid past Kenny Bernstein at the top end of the race track with no...

Wanna Buy A Drag Strip? Roxboro Motorsports Park Is Going To Be Auctioned In A Month

If you have been itching to buy a turn key drag strip, your chance to get the job done is coming in a month. Exactly a month to be precise as November 10th is the date that Roxboro Motorsports Park...

Alexis DeJoria Will Retire From NHRA Drag Racing At The Close Of The 2017 Season

NHRA funny car driver Alexis DeJoria has announced her forthcoming retirement from the sport of NHRA drag racing at the end of the 2017 season. The driver of the Tequila Patron funny car has had a...

IHRA Ends Class Racing Changes Format To Sportsman Bracket Program – Summit Racing Equipment To Sponsor

Well this is big news in the world of drag racing and it isn’t exactly good. After leaving the world of professional heads up drag racing a couple of years ago, IHRA has now announced that they...

Surprise! This 1970 Challenger Looks Like A Concours Resto But It Runs Low 11s!

So sometimes I get to twirl the electronic pen for the pages of Mopar Muscle magazine and some of the car features that I get to do are pretty sweet. Take this 1970 Challenger for example. The car...

This Video Recap Shows Every Radial vs The World Eliminations Run At No Mercy 8

So as you read this I am on the way home from No Mercy 8, the late season race that is put on by Donald “Duck” Long at South Georgia Motorsports Park. The event was a thrash and while...