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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2017 Meltdown Drags Continuing Coverage: A New Photo Gallery From The Event!

(Words and photos by Bad Brad Klaassen) –Okay people, if you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know I’ve touted the greatness of nostalgia nitro racing at the March Meet, held...

2017 Meltdown Drags Coverage: Fresh Photos, More Sweet Cars and Action!

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – If you love old school heads up racing with gassers, altereds, and vintage dragsters of all types, this is a must attend event. With a limited entry list...

Check Out The Massive Monti Fitzgerald Double Wheelstand From NHRA Sonoma Last Weekend

The NHRA has embarked on an interesting program in 2017, inviting various different racing groups from around the sport of drag racing to put on exhibitions at select races across the country. The...

Watch Tommy Johnson Jr Make A Crazy Broken Axle Save In Sonoma – Dude Can Wheel!

Tommy Johnson Jr. loves driving nitro funny cars and here’s some breaking news…he’s damned good at it. Johnson is one of the guys that kind of revels in the challenge of wrestling...

Classic YouTube: What Might Be The Nastiest Cadillac Seville Out There

By the mid 1970s, it was becoming clear that “longer, lower and wider” wasn’t working anymore. GM got wise and started designing small cars while Ford buried it’s head in the...

Holley’s Doug Flynn Takes His Nova To The Final At Car Craft Summer Nationals

(Words and Photo by Todd Veney) Our boy Doug Flynn, one of the head honchos at Holley EFI, showed that he knows how to tune and how to drive as he worked his way to the final round at the Car Craft...

It’s Over: Kanawha Valley Motorsports Park Has Been Sold And Will Be Demolished

Back in May we told you that Kanawha Valley Motorsports Park was closing and the owners were getting aggressive in their efforts to sell the property. Well the property sold and sadly it was not to a...

Video: Watch Nicky Bonifante Tell The Most Insane Rental Car Story Ever – Legend Of The Bob Gilbertson Cadillac

In the realm of rental car stories they literally do not get any more insane than this. It is a tale of escalating insanity, potential death and injury, of trouble, fines, and flat out crazy...

BANGshift Question Of The Day: Why Are Some People Selling Cars And Trucks So Stupid!!!

Nothing torques my wrench, nothing floods my engine, nothing kills my battery, nothing pisses me the F’ off, like stupid people posting cars for sale on Craigslist. While I find the occasional...

Rough Start: This 1979 Buick Regal Is Ready To Hit The Track!

Sorry if you saw Buick Regal and were hoping for an all-black turbo monster waiting for a bargain budget price. Outside of searching Copart for wrecks, I’ve only seen one Grand National that...

Krazy Kelly’s Crew VS Big Chief, Murder Nova, And McDoogle On The REAL STREETS OF THE 405!!!

The Street Outlaws TV shows have taken street racing to a whole new level across the country, and made all of the 405 crew into household names. They are heroes to some, celebrities for sure, and...

You Asked, We Provide: Here’s More Footage Of The “Kut Da Check” Chevy Caprice!

Remember that video a few days ago that involved big-wheel cars running the strip on drag-sort rubber? Yeah…I ran that solely for the intent on working up some nerves and judging from the...

Howl, Baby, Howl: This Coyote-Powered Mercury Capri Is One Mean Little Ripper!

If you want a silky-smooth wave of torque that flows uninterrupted, get yourself an old-school Cadillac and enjoy having someone else drive for you. When it comes to our track cars, we want violence...

Airstrip Drag Racing! Check Out The Footage From The King Of The 28s Race In Hutchinson, Kansas!

More or less in the center of Kansas is the city of Hutchinson. It’s known for salt mines and being the home of the Kansas State Fair, but what isn’t mentioned so often in the pamphlets...