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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Gary Weckesser’s 4-Engine Mach IV Mustang Drag Machine – Plus Video Of It Being Push Started!

We know what you want to think about when you see this car, but don’t. Yes, Gary Weckesser’s four engine Mustang called the Mach IV has four wheel drive and 300% more engines than the...

Drag Photos: Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods Invade Virginia Motorsports Park And We’ve Got All The Action

(Words and Photos by Benoit Pigeon) This past Saturday was the EOPM (Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod) Memorial Shootout in honor of Kevin Bowen at Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) in Dinwiddie, VA.  Twenty...

Free Mammograms In The Pits Turns Out To Be Way More Popular Than You’d Think

Hey now, don’t get all creepy on us. We’re being serious here. You know that throughout the month of October that Chad Reynolds with BangShift.com had a pink beard in support of Breast...

Jim Dunn Racing Is Bringing Back The Mooneyes Funny Car For The NHRA Finals In Pomona!

Every drag race fan, hot rodder, and racer loved the Mooneyes Funny Cars that were run by “Big” Jim Dunn. When I collected Die Cast Drag Cars, it was one of my first purchases. Well now...

Quarter Mile Foundation Announces Project 1320 Documentary To Be Produced By John Mullin

Some of you may not be familiar with the Quarter Mile Foundation, or Project 1320, if you don’t follow west coast and Nostalgia Drag Racing very closely but you should be. The Foundation, which...

Garlits Museum’s 2014 International Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced

(Courtesy of Darr Hawthorne) International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2014 announced The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, housed at the famed Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing...

Pro Mod Racer Dennis Radford Crashes Scooter, Can’t Race Sunday In Vegas!

(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) Oregon Pro Mod racer Dennis Radford’s return to the NHRA Pro Mod wars after taking a one-year hiatus proved to be a successful, but took a bad turn Saturday...

Drag Photos: Wheels Up Gassers And Nostalgia Door Cars Invade New London Dragstrip

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) BangShift Photo Contributor Benoit “The Frenchman” Pigeon made a trip over to New London Dragstrip this weekend to snap some photos of Gassers and old school...

Courtney Force And John Force Kick Ass In Vegas. Force Wins 16th NHRA Championship

That’s right folks, after a year of ups and downs within the Force Racing camp, John Force has clinched his 16th NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Championship this past weekend in Vegas. The final...

Retro Drag Gallery: Liam Garritty Captures The California Hot Rod Reunion ’70s Style

(Photos by Liam Garritty) When BangShift.com Photo Contributor Liam Garritty shows up at an event he’s not there to capture ALL the action. He’s there to create artistic impressions of...

ADRL Houston 2013 – Our Last Blast Of Great Action Photos!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last blast of photos from the lens of Charles Wickam who was camped out at the ADRL event in Houston, Texas last weekend to capture the action for...

More ADRL Action Photos All Up In Yo Business! Bikes, Pro Extreme, Pro Mod and More From Houston!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Our nearly week long exhibition of Charles Wickam’s action and pit photos from last weekend’s ADRL event in Houston continues today with this fine...

Action Gallery: Race Wars II At El Paso Motorplex – Door Slammers, Dragsters, Racing!

(Photos by Justin Oney)- Recently, one of our Texas contributors was at El Paso Motorplex for an event deemed Race Wars II. This event combined some hard core heads up action with a few different...

More ADRL Action Photo Coolness – Pro Mods, Top Dragster, Bits From The Pits!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We promised that we would be back all week with photo greatness from our own Charles Wickam who braved the elements, errant golf carts (seriously, a junior dragster...