FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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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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The Parting Shift: Cruise The Neighborhood In a Lenco Equipped, 584ci, 8-Second, Street Legal, 1964 Fairlane

There are few more pleasurable things to do in your car than strike out on a beautiful day and cruise around. The lack of a destination is typically part of the fun because a free form drive will...

Rough Stuff: Two Major League Wrecks From The IHRA Pro-Am At Richmond Dragway In Virginia

If you have been around the sport of drag racing for any length of time in either the spectator or racer capacity, you know that one of “those weekends” is bound to come up here and...

Changed! 2015 Hot Rod Drag Week Registration Is Saturday May 2nd Be Ready Or Be Left Out!

At 9:00AM Pacific Time on Saturday May 2nd, Hot Rod will post the registration link on their website and the electronic gold rush will take place again to fill the 350 open spots that the magazine...

McIntire Wins IHRA Nitro Jam – Sets Records In Bradenton

Photos by Chris Simmons – Courtesy of IHRA There were five class winners at the IHRA Nitro Jam Southern Nationals Presented By Crower over the weekend at Bradenton Motorsports Park, but Mike...

Gas-Tastic: This 1957 Chevrolet Is A Straight Axle, Tunnel-Rammed, Four Speed, Worn Paint Heap Of Perfection

I think it is fair to say that there are a couple of styles of cars that will literally never go out of style in hot rodding. 1932 Ford roadtsers will be around forever and 1955-1957 Chevys done in...

Check Out Liam Garrity’s Finest Action Photos From The March Meet 2015

(Photos by Liam Garrity) When Liam sends us photos, we’re always entertained. You see, he marches to the beat of a slightly different drummer. It’s like he was born several decades too...

More PDRA Drag Racing Photos From Rockingham!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) When you think PDRA, you think big loud crazy door slammers that make more power than anything else with doors on the planet earth or within our solar system. And for good...

Video Hilarity: Tiny Tractor Owns Mitsubishi Truck On The Dragstrip! Real Diggers!

Apparently in Thailand they use tractors that look to be a walk behind unit similar to some kind of Roto-Tiller. Of course you can’t expect farmers or their equipment to work EVERY hour of the...

PDRA Rockingham: Action, Pit Photos, The Most Powerful Door Cars In The World!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The second event of the 2015 PDRA season took place at the historic Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North Carolina last weekend and it brought out some mammoth...

Have You Ever Saw A Studebaker Powered Anything Bang Gears Like This?

Richard Poe owns a pretty cool Studebaker, but it’s not one you would instantly recognize. Starlights, Hawks, Champions, and Larks are the norm when it comes to Studebakers you see at most...

Dyno KABOOM! Watch This Hot Rodded Mustang GT500 Suffer A Rod Bolt Failure At The Top End Of A Pull

While the GM guys like to throw rocks at late model Ford performance fans because the modular engines are more complex than the LS/LT series of engines, the potency of the Ford DOHC engines cannot be...

Insane Drag Save! Watch Two Cars Nearly Collide At A No Prep Race Yet Both Emerge Unscathed

The great thing about racing is that no one has seen it all. Guys who have been going to the drag strip for 40 years can still be wowed, shocked, and otherwise impressed with stuff. I’ve got...

Crunch Video: Watch An All-Steel Showpiece Chevelle Catch The Wall At Memphis – It Will Be Fixed!

Perhaps by favorite thing about being involved with as much racing stuff as I am is seeing everyone’s stuff. There’s just something cool about seeing some beautiful iron that you have not...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Can You Name This Thing That We Found At Then And Now Auto?

A short while ago, we showed up at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts and demanded entrance to their fortress of a building which holds untold riches of killer ancient car parts. It...