We’ve Got Street Week Sweden Photos! Check Out Our First Gallery of Photos From Mantorp Park Right Here! More To Come!

We’ve reached the midway point of Street Week Sweden 2026, and are about to start Race Day 4 at Tierp Arena in Sweden within hours of you reading this and checking out the photos. It has been a...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Martin Lundqvist Racing Goes After Another Street Week Sweden Victory! Here’s What It Took To Even Get To Day 1 At Mantorp Park

We’ve been sharing Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication videos here on BANGshift for the past few months as they are putting together a new drag and drive machine for Sweden’s Street Week...

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Dylan McCool Bought an UNKNOWN Drag Car at Auction… It Had ROD KNOCK! Can They Race It?

You never know what you are going to get when buying cars at auction, and that’s because you may or may not even be able to start them and hear them run. It totally depends on the auction, and...

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THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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The Cage Gage Could Be One Of The Coolest Tubing Fabrication Tools We’ve Seen

We’ve been showing you welding, notching, and bending videos recently to inspire you to build your own roll bar or roll cage for your project. We’ll be bringing you more tech on doing...

The Ultimate Bolt On Strut Front Subframe For Camaro And Nova Drag Racers

I’m pretty lucky because I hear about and see, and sometimes even test, new products well before the normal public gets to hear about them or see the at an event. And since I’m a geek...

This Boosted C10 Pickup Is Hot Rod Sleeper Greatness And Runs 11’s

BigKleib was at LSFest shooting video, and got some good shots of this kick ass 1st Gen Chevrolet C10 pickup truck running down the drag strip. We aren’t sure whether it is a ’64,...

Twin Chinese Turbos, No Tune, Big Block, 4-Door Chevelle: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

My grandpa had a saying. “Crap will do for brains if you’re lucky!” And sometimes that goes a long way in the car world. We’re not saying it’s the case in the particular...

Tube Bending Basics For Bumpers, Roll Cages, Roll Bars, And More

Tube bending is an artform, or it can be anyways. But it is also a skill that you can learn, and master, if you spend the right time and energy doing so. This skill can come in very handy depending...

Why Testing Is Important: Watch This Holden Drift The Dragstrip Before Settling Down To Run Sevens!

Shakedown testing is vital to a race car. The team and the driver need to know how the animal that they built will behave once the loud pedal gets it’s first solid kicking. Part of the big...

Watch Jay Payne Suffer A Huge Crash In His Pro Mod At The 2016 AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals – He’s OK

It began as a slight movement to the left off the starting line and then it turned into a wrestling match between the driver and the car with the driver ultimately going for the ride of his life. It...

This LS Swapped 1968 Biscayne Does Killer Burnouts

So it doesn’t make a ton of power, but this 1968 Biscayne does some killer burnouts, that’s for sure. The video shows it on the chassis dyno at the Sloppy Mechanics dyno day and it makes...

Motor Trend’s Annual Ode To Horsepower: Which One Of The 2016 Greatest Driver’s Car Contenders Will Take The Drag Race Win?

To everyone at Motor Trend: quit lying to yourselves and to the world. This is as far removed from “work” as you can possibly get. Every year, Motor Trend wrangles up a massive shopping...

9.007 Without Breaking A Sweat! This 4 Cylinder Turbo Chevrolet Mini Ute Is Hauling Ass

Bruno Felix Damasio sent me a message with a link to his killer little Chevrolet, and I about died. This thing is bad ass, and even though it is not V8 powered, it is rear wheel drive and...

The Brutally Awesome Drag Week Camaro Of Mike Wenzler Is For Sale – Nitrous Hammer!

First rule of drag race announcing: Don’t have favorites. That becomes virtually impossible when you see cars that you’d love to own or just stare at for hours. That’s my deal with...

PDRA Dragstock XIII Action: Photos and Winners From The Party At GALOT

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Yesterday we showed you some of Benoit Pigeon’s fantastic photos from PDRA Dragstock XIII which was held at the new and freshly completed GALOT Motorsports...

Ride Along As This Supra Crosses The Finish Line On Fire! Helmet Cam Baby!

This video is greatness, because it shows a really nice run in this 7 second Supra, right up until the point that it decides the head gasket needs to go. When it does, water, oil, steam, fire, etc...

Relive The Insanity Of The Adam Flamholc Pro Mod Wreck At The 2013 NHRA AAA Midwest Nationals

The 2016 J&A Service NHRA Pro Mod Series season has been a wild one. There have been great races, there have been massive wrecks, and there have been some unbelievable driving jobs tying it all...