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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Top Fuel With Doors? Scott Palmer Is Going To Give It A Shot At Sikeston! Video of Nitro With Doors!

NHRA top fuel racer, top fuel hyrdroplane racer, and all around bad ass Scott Palmer will be bringing a very unique brand of nitro racing to Jeffers Motorsports Park when he’ll make test hits...

Curb Feeler: Watch This Camaro Climb A Curb And Mow The Grass At Speed – Yikes!

It is not very often we talk about a drag car getting off into the weeds during a run anymore but that’s because drag strips have all but eliminated that possibility. There was a time way back...

eBay Find: This 1964 Mercury Park Lane Is Cool But The Four Speed And SOHC Make It The Coolest!

While loads of people really geek for the 1964-1972 era muscle cars that really defined the era, I am more enamored with the 1964 and down stuff going down into the late 1950s. There were some really...

The Gas Hopper! This 1961 Falcon Ranchero Gasser Is Completely Awesome And For Sale!

Oh wow. That’s exactly what we said when we first saw this hunk of magical goodness on the pages of eBay. What you are looking at is a 1961 Falcon gasser that is called the Gas Hopper. The car...

Video and Time Slip: Tom Bailey Takes Sick Seconds 2.0 To A 3.985/189 Eight Mile – A Five Coming Soon?

For the first time since it has been on the track Sick Seconds 2.0 has traversed the eighth mile in less than four seconds. Yes, Tom Bailey won Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week in 2015 and he did it with...

Gasser Video Perfection: Take A Look At The Recent Southeast Gassers Race At Greer Dragway In South Carolina

A couple of weekends ago, the awesome Southeast Gassers group led by Quain Stott brought their period correct method of gasser drag racing to the very period correct race track at Greer Dragway in...

HUGE NEWS: Stock And Super Stock Unleashed At 2016 Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals – Factoring SHUT OFF!

The NHRA has announced that it will suspend the Automatic Horsepower Factoring System for the 2016 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals in the stock and super stock categories. This is huge news...

How It’s Made Video: Aerospace Components Brake Calipers

Later this week we’re going to be showing you a great shop tour at Aerospace Components. This Florida based company has been building some of the nicest, most highly functional, and well...

Ohio Mile Video: Here’s A Spectacular Look At The Action Last Sunday!

The weathermen said is was a lost cause, some people who believed their smart phones stayed home but the racers that showed up because they’re….racers had a kick ass Sunday at the Ohio...

Mike Gittings Named NHRA Chief Starter – Fourth Man In History To Hold That Position

(Photo Credit: NHRA.com) – NHRA has named Mike Gittings as their chief starter. Gittings has served as the head starter for NHRA’s division six since 2012 and has a long history in the...

Drag Coverage: The Action and Pit Scene At Last Weekend’s NHRA Division 3 Event – Indy, Baby!

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – If you are a hardcore sportsman drag racing fan there is no better place to spend a weekend than at an NHRA divisional or regional event. These are the places...

Drag Action Gallery: The Southeast Gassers At Greer Dragway – Perfect Track, Perfect Cars

(Photos by Billy Simcox – Provided by Racepak) – If there’s a MUST ATTEND event for hardcore drag racing fans these days it is catching the Southeast Gassers at Greer Dragway in...

Hiding In Plain Sight – This 2000 Buick Regal GS Is So Good That Nobody Will Believe The Truth When It’s Told To Their Face!

(Photos by Nick) On any night anywhere, you can find a stereotypical car guy. Just listen for the loud pipes, or look for certain cars grouping together. Mustangs. Camaros. Civics that have been...

Runs In The Family: Check Out John Andrade, Sr.’s Stomping Nitrous Oldsmobile!

Oh, yes, it’s sexy, from just about every angle. It’s got classic lines, a great color, a thumping 406ci on nitrous, a backstory that is the stuff of dreams and the performance to worry...