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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This 1979 Ford Fairmont May Be The Ultimate Sleeper Project

The best street sleepers are always the ones that look so simple and plain that nobody would ever see you coming. We think this 1979 Ford Fairmont just might be the perfect candidate for a street...

Australian Top Doorslammer Racing From Calder Park Is Our Kind Of Class! Big Blowers And Identifiable Cars!

Where else in the world are you going to see two 1959 Chrysler Saratogas, a 1973 Holden GTS, a 1970 Plymouth Duster and a late-model Holden Monaro race with alcohol-swilling supercharged mills scream...

One Shot Deal: NHRA National Record Setting Procedure Changes – No 1% Backup Needed Anymore

The torrent of changes being made by the National Hot Rod Associaton during this off-season continues with the announcement that national records will no longer require a 1% backup run to be...

This 1978 Monza Wagon May Be The Cleanest And Nicest One Left On Earth

If there is one thing that vehicles from the 1970s are not known for it is longevity. You simply do not see a whole lot of middle to late 1970s stuff rolling around in stock form these days because...

Street Racing Extravaganza! Our Boy Big Kleib Is At It Again

It’s illegal, it’s unsafe, it’s wrong, and you shouldn’t do it. Now that we got that out of the way, know that there is still a ton of street racing going on across the...

Round Tube Back Half G-Body El Camino, Small Block, Nitrous, Big Tires, Grudge Ready!

I’m 100% certain that you couldn’t build this El Camino for this kind of money even if you did 80% of the work yourself. This one is as clean as they come, and the fact that it has a...

Take A Quarter Mile Rip In A Four Speed, Steel Bodied, Blown 392 Hemi Powered, 1941 Willys

(Video and photos by Christian Rowell) – When is comes to icons and hot rodding, nothing can really touch the late 1930s/early 1940s Willys coupe. They have been built in every possible form...

Classic YouTube: A Dodge Shadow That Isn’t A Rear-Drive Conversion, Isn’t Subtle And Should Be Feared!

The Ford Tempo that Brian ran yesterday got me thinking: most of the cars that were around when I was in my single-digit ages are all but gone. Just between the ages of 5-10, let’s see how many...

This Big Tire 1976 Pinto Wagon Has An Alcohol Huffing Small Block Under The Hood

This is one cool little wagon with it’s alcohol burning 355 cubic inch Cleveland under the hood. And the engine sounds like it’s done right too! With an Australian block, forged crank,...

COPO Camaro, Cobra Jet & Drag Pak Return For NHRA Factory Stock Showdown!

Photos by Mike Burghardt Words by NHRA Communications   The extreme racing of the NHRA Factory Stock Showdown is returning for the 2016 season with four stops on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing...

This 1969 Olds Cutlass Wagon Is The Picture Of Perfection – Even Hot Rodded In A Sneaky Way

I have to credit Craig Fitzgerald for sharing this wagon on social media because without that we never would have seen this hunk of Nassau blue Olds perfection. Other than the fact that it is rare in...

Jason Line and Greg Anderson Talk Pro Stock Testing, Challenges, And 2016

If there’s one team that everyone in the world of NHRA pro stock drag racing is paying attention to during winter testing it is the Summit Racing Equipment tandem of Greg Anderson and Jason...

History Lesson With Lewis Bloom: Del Worsham Talks About Running Funny Car AND Top Fuel At Indy

Del Worsham’s career had established him as a half of fame drag racer BEFORE he captured the NHRA funny car title in 2015. From the scrappy match racing kid who survived hairy race tracks,...

Got $310,000? If So You Could Buy BOTH These 1967 Plymouth GTX Hemi Cars At Once

The other day we showed you a guy selling three pretty awesome Camaros for the princely sum of $250,000. While that was a pretty neat thing to find at the time, it has officially been blown to bits...