SHADYSIDE OUTLAWS APRIL 2026: THIS OUTLAW SMALL TIRE SHOOTOUT SETS THE LIST! SEE WHO MAKES THE CUT!

Shadyside Outlaws is back for 2026 and that means it is time to set the list for Outlaw Small Tire, and that means it is shootout time. Check out the video from our friends at Spoold Media and let us...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT Keep Coming!

(Photos by David Whealon) If you live under a rock and haven’t realized how huge of a splash the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series made in 2025, then are you in for a treat! With amazing events, huge...

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Hot Rod Hoarder Feature: Finding the History of this Forgotten Slingshot Dragster Is Harder Than You Might Think!

Forgotten hot rods and race cars all have a story, and some of them are more interesting than others. But regardless of the story, it takes some home work and a lot of research to be able to find the...

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Best of 2015: Jonnie Lindberg Destroys Speed And ET Records In Alky Funny Car

(Brian note: As we get towards the end of the year we’re going to relive some of the cool stuff we got to see and do in 2015. Jonnie Lindberg went on to become the 2015 NHRA TAFC champ. This...

Hot Rod’s Thom Taylor Designed Mean Green Machine 1955 Chevy Is For Sale Again!

Remember in the early 1990’s when some of the magazines were trying to put catalytic converters on old hot rods to make them pass the sniffer test here in California and calling them...

FAST EZ-EFI Takes On The Water And XFI Takes On More Boost Than Anyone Else!

The major battle in the fuel injection realm over the last several years has been eliminating the inherent fear that many hot rodder had of switching from their familiar carbs to the more precise and...

2015 BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Benoit Pigeon’s Favorite Shots From The Year That Was

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It is hard to believe that we’re already at that point in the calendar to start running our contributor 2015 photo highlight reels but the simple fact is that...

Last Minute Christmas Stocking Stuffer! Moroso Pro Series Tire Pressure Gauges

Are you still frantically searching for that perfect holiday gift for yourself or that performance fiend in your neighborhood?  Moroso Performance Products has an answer! When you’re drag racing,...

Watch And Listen To This Whipple Blown 426 Gen III Hemi Stroker Make Over 1,000hp On The Dyno

If we have one piece of advice for late model muscle cars fans that are NOT of the Chrysler variety, when you see a car equipped with an Arrington Performance decal or logo, run the other way and...

All-Included Racing: The Calder Park Street Drags Event, Where Everything From A Twin-Turbo Shelby Mustang To A Wicked Toyota Starlet Come Out To Play!

Burnout cars, utes, Holdens and Falcons. You would think that encompasses all of Australia’s motoring scene. It does capture a side of it, yes, but only one side. Australia’s location...

NitroArtVideo Released Their “Wild Rides” Of 2015 – Carnage, Great Saves, Legendary Flight

We respect lunatics that hustle like we do during the racing season at Kevin Maurer at NitroArtVideo is one of those guys. This dude is at dozens of racing events a year all across the southern part...

Don Schumacher Racing Didn’t Buy Them All! The New TBS500 Top Fuel Billet Intake Is Awesome!

Looking at a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car, one might think that ANY intake manifold would work with that much blower on top. And to some extent that’s correct. Stuff air and fuel through it...

Tis The Season: Take A Look Back On The History Of The Christmas Tree!

For the entire time I’ve been breathing on this earth, drag races…well, professional drag races on an actual dragstrip, anyways…have been started with the electronic system and...

Wile E. Coyote Has Quit Screwing Around: The ACME Twin-Turbo Camaro From Australia, Good For 7-sec Quarters!

Poor Wile E. He fought tooth, nail and every scrap of fur he ever had trying to catch that damned Road Runner. He ran miles, just barely out of reach of the bird’s tail feathers. He landed on...

This Barn Find 1965 Gasser Corvette Is Awesome, Regardless Of What Other Magazines Say!

When one of our readers sent us a story on this eBay find 1965 Corvette Gasser style street machine, where the author bashed this bitchin ride because of it’s gasser vibe and killer paint, we...

This Pro Street 1970 Dodge Coronet Is HEMI And Lenco Equipped! Bitchin Cubed!

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the coolest Coronet we’ve ever had here on BangShift.com. Just look at it, it’s beautiful. And it’s got 528 cubic...

This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!

Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...