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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Prolong Unveils Their Steve Strope Built 1955 Chevy 210 Wagon At Grand National Roadster Show

We’ve showed you the renderings now here’s the real thing. Prolong unveiled their 1955 Chevy 210 wagon at the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show and did so in fine fashion inside the Pure...

NMCA Rumors: Brand New NMCA Pro NA Category To Be Unveiled This Week? 400ci Pro Stocks?

For about a week, our pals over at CompetitionPlus.com have been dropping some hints on what would be another new and potentially awesome NMCA category for the upcoming season. They are smarter and...

Pontiac Drag Racing Legend, Speed Parts Manufacturer, and Straight Line Pioneer Jess Tyree Dies

The unrelenting march of time has called another drag racing great home. This time it is Pontiac racing legend and famed header manufacturer Jess Tyree. His drag racing story is one that rings...

Relive The NHRA Winternationals From 50 Years Ago With This Amazing Video

As you read this the majority of the top tier teams in the NHRA drag racing world are either at the track making test runs or they are on their way to the track to make their testing runs to close...

Drag Racing 2015 Thrills and Spills Part 2 – The Urban Hillbilly Insanity Continues!

At the tail end of last week we showed you part one of Urban Hillbilly Action Video’s look back at the craziest stuff they saw in 2015. The second half of this non-stop thrill ride is available...

Watch This Dude In A Mundane Looking Maxima Wax A Porsche At The Drags – Hilarious And Awesome

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – I enjoy a good sleeper. But I have to clarify my definition of a sleeper: It’s gotta be late-model, because I’m hard pressed to believe anything over...

Watch The World’s Most Powerful Golf Cart Lay Down 291hp On The Dyno Rollers!

Maybe it was the golf bag, maybe it was the cool wheels, or maybe it was the fact that this is the world’s most powerful golf cart, but something Jon Smith send us some info and links to...

This SRT-8 Powered Plymouth Duster Proves That Anything Can Be A Bitchin’ Race Car If You Are Brave Enough To Try!

Dare to be different only goes so far with some people. Instead of doing a Camaro, they’ll do a Nova or a Malibu, just because it’s close enough. Whatever happened to taking the unloved...

Enter Before Midnight Sunday Jan. 31 To Win An Entry Into The Spring Fling Million Drag Race

Breaking News: We just got word that the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas is giving away two entries, worth $2000 each, for the Spring Fling Million Bracket Race! Here is what Kyle and Peter just...

Drag Racing’s Greatest Thrills And Spills Of 2015 (Part 1) — This is Non-Stop Craziness

We look forward to the yearly Urban Hillbilly recap video each and every time we replace our calendar. It has to be a ton of work to sort through the hundreds and hundreds of hours of footage that...

Video: Jeff Lutz Breaks All-Time Quickest V10 Viper Record! 6.78/211 MPH and the Sound Is Gnarly!

It was a hurried program but Jeff Lutz and crew accomplished a major goal this week at Orlando Speed World Dragway and that was wresting the title of quickest V10 Viper on Earth from the hands of Sal...

Aerospace Components Dual Rear Brake Systems Delivery More Stopping Power, Control, and Holding Ability

(Words and photos by Mike Galimi) – Some things just go well in double servings like two scoops of ice cream instead one or a Double-Double for those who enjoy In-N-Out Burger. But when it...

Gearhead History Lesson: What’s a Q-Ship?

  We run lots of blog items about sleepers here on BangShift and on occasion, I refer to them as “Q-Ships”. As people find these stories on their own thorugh web searches or they run...

Get An Ant’s Eye View Of What It Is Like To Be Run Over By A Junior Fuel Dragster

This is one of those videos that simply couldn’t exist before the days of “action sports cameras” like the Replay xD, GoPro, and all of the others on the market today. Back in the...