A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Awesome News For Northwest Drag Fans – Spokane County Raceway Joins IHRA

  Ever since Orville Moe, the longtime owner and operator of Spokane Raceway Park was thrown out of his facility in 2008 by track investors and the courts, the County-owned facility has been in...

Racing Junk Find: This 1972 Dodge Colt Wagon Is A Low 11-Second Bracket Bomber From Mopar Heaven

Dodge Colts are cool for a couple of reasons. Firstly, you don’t see them all that often. Secondly, they have interesting history in the sport of drag racing and were found in Pro Stock and...

Glory Days Nostalgia Drags Coverage From Maple Grove: Old Drag Iron From Barn Fresh To Restored Perfection

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Just about a week ago, our man on the Pennsylvanian scene Joe Grippo attended the Glory Days nostalgia drags at Maple Grove Raceway and sent us a boatload of photos...

Want To Know What 168 kmh Looks Like On A Mobility Scooter? Watch This.

Mobility scooters, like the Rascal and Hoveround are what most people think of when they hear the words Mobility Scooter. And with jillions of them being sold and driven around stores near you,...

Check Out This Video Of Don Garlits Talking About Swamp Rat 37, And His Pursuit For 200 MPH!

Check out this video that Amy and Dave Dayton, of ARS-TV.com, put together interviewing Don Garlits about his Swamp Rat 37 all electric dragster. Garlits and his crew are attempting to run over 200...

Dueling Nitrous Explosion Video: A Pair Of Pro Mods Both POP Their Scoops At Norwalk

When Jim Laurita and Dan Stevenson headed down the strip during qualifying at the 2014 Summit Racing NHRA Nationals last weekend, neither expected to kill their hood scoops during the lap. Funny...

The Places They Raced: An Abandoned Street Racing Haven

It is a straightaway to nowhere located off a bustling secondary road in Braintree, Massachsuetts. Ironically, it is now part of a nature reservation, but for several years in the 1960s and early...

Killer Historic Drag Video: Highlights From Arizona’s Beeline Dragway Circa The Early 1970s

With the recent announcement that Arizona’s Speedworld dragway would be closing down we couldn’t help but think about another dead Arizona strip that was once a hotbed of national level...

Screaming Video: Watch A 2.3L Turbo Ford Clip Nearly 10K On The Chassis Dyno In A Drag Car!

Job Spetter Jr has been tuning full tilt turbo and EFI engines for a long time. His name is very well known around drag racing circles and he’s both driven and tuned others to lot and lots of...

Ebay Find: 1974 Vega Wagon Funny Car For Sale-Who Wants Their Own Nostalgia Ride?

BangShifter Joe Haber sent me this gem from his backyard in Tucson, Arizona. A full-on funny car and ’74 Vega Wagon body, this thing just needs an engine and trans (as well as a cleanup and...

Nitro Video: A Quick Recap, Explosions Included, From Bakersfield’s Saturday Night Nitro Show Last Weekend

Les Mayhew, the drag racing film making maven was at the Saturday Night Nitro event at Bakersfield last weekend and while he was there he shot a ton of video featuring the various classes that were...

Take A Detailed Tour Of The Challenger II Streamliner With Danny Thompson – This Thing Is A Marvel Of Packaging And Engineering

Bonneville is just over a month away now and we’re gearing up for our most comprehensive Speed Week coverage ever from the salt. This year marks the 100th birthday of racing on the Bonneville...

Chris Alston’s New Professional Grade Bolt On Drag Race Strut Clip For 67-69 Camaro And 68-72 Nova – For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have To Kick Everyone’s Ass All The Time

144lbs….not the weight of Chad’s beard hair, not the weight of my massive head, the weight of the new Professional Grade Bolt On Drag Race Strut Clip that fits 1967-1969 Camaros and...

Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods In Atlanta – Wild Cars, Wild Weather, And Great Times

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – My last visit at Atlanta dragway was back in 1989 for some heads up Top Sportsman racing. Not too surprisingly, this new visit took me for the same kind...