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 1962 Galaxie May Be A Bit Of A Confusing Tribute But It Is One Awesome Car

I’m going to open up by saying that this is a very, very cool car. My bit of a quip there in the headline will be explained below but let’s go over what makes this hulking Ford so cool....

Here’s a Cool Behind The Scenes Look At An NHRA Pro Stock Test Day (Video)

Whether you are a fan of modern day pro stock racing or not you have to respect the amount of work, time, and dedication that goes into making one of the top running cars as good as it is. In this...

IHRA Nitro Jam – Explosive Opener In Tucson Qualifying

Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Bob Snyder and Darr Hawthorne   The International Hot Rod Association’s 2015 Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series season opened Friday afternoon at...

Cool! The Chassis To Dave Brackett’s Forward Thinking 1970s Motorcycle Powered Dragster Is For Sale

As you are reading this, there’s a chance that right now at the NHRA Winternationals a Junior Comp dragster is screaming down the quarter mile in Pomona. The Junior Comp class is an interesting...

Friday BOOM: A Collection Of Videos Featuring Funny Car Top Fuel, And Alky Dragster Wreckage At The NHRA Winternationals

The Winternationals are on ever racer’s short list of events to win. Pomona, Gainesville, Indy, and a handful of other “majors” are the big races that punctuate championship seasons...

Aeromotive Announces Awesome New Sponsorships

Awesome things are happening with our BangShift partners at Aeromotive Fuel Systems as they continue to support racers in all forms of motorsports. Going into this weekend’s IHRA Nitro Jam Series...

The Best Automotive Super Bowl Ad Of All Time Was The 1970 GTO Humbler Spot That Only Aired Once And Got An Option Package Killed

1970 was the absolute zenith of the muscle car era. It all was going great guns. The cars were wilder looking, more powerful, more sexy, and faster than anyone could have imagined that they would...

Watch Dave Demarco’s Dastardly Regal Run 4.18 On Its Second Hit Ever – Screw Blown Hemi Drag Radial Goodness

Hey I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a homer. You know what a homer is, a guy who roots for the teams that come from his hometown or area. Since the Demarco Boys are from my area and...

Would You Pay $18,000 For The Rotting Remains Of This 1965 A990 Hemi Belvedere?

We know that there’s no such thing as “too far gone” when it comes to cars like this one but you’d REALLY need to be a hemi or Chrysler nut to spend the dough to buy this...

San Antonio IHRA Nitro Jam Postponed, Event Moved To Baton Rouge Amidst Ownership Questions At SAR

The news coming from San Antonio Raceway lately has hardly been positive. The track was shuttered, the equipment was reportedly stolen, and then it was put up for public auction where no deal was...

This Brazillian Chevette Will Stomp It’s Way To A 9-second Quarter Mile!

In America, mentioning a Chevrolet Chevette brings up images of the tiny little front-engined, rear drive hatchbacks that graced our presence from 1976-1987. They were cheap, basic, and essentially...

Watch In-Car Video of a Pinto Drag Car Pull a Vertical Wheelie and Taco the Front End

Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (formerly Norwalk Raceway Park) in Ohio is one of the fastest, nicest, and hardest hooking drag strips in the country. We’ve been there back when it was...

Wild In Car Video Of What It Is Like To Make A Pass At The Merrill Ice Drags – Full Throttle On The Frozen Eighth Mile!

So just because the glaciers come in and swallow everything during the winters in Wisconsin doesn’t mean that hot rodding has to stop. Sure, if someone from California set foot on a frozen lake...

Strip Trip: A Peek Inside The Frozen Remains Of Pocono Drag Lodge – One Of The Best Known Lost Strips In The Country

So I am finally getting to this series of drag strip visit stories from our family road trip in December. I am going to run them mostly in the order that we visited but I may mess with that a little...