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New Years No Prep Photos: More From Maple Grove Raceway’s New Year’s No Prep Race! People And Racing Action!
We’ve got our second batch of photos from the New Year’s No-Prep at The Grove, and want to thank Joe Grippo as always. If you missed any of the previous photos, we’ve got a link...
Old School Chassis Tech: This Video From 30 Years Ago Shows The Al Swindahl Bolt Together Top Fuel Chassis
There are names in drag racing that have had massive impact. We all know the Don Garlits’ of the world, we all know the Bob Glidden types of the world but what about the guys who made the cars...
Twin-Engine, Turbocharged Bare Chassis Run Low 8s In The Quarter And Terrorize The Streets!
BangShifter John Mac turned us on to what has to be the nuttiest thing built in Canada in the last two decades. From what we can gather, the crew at Turbo Dynamics Canada has taken a stock car...
Cool Video: Watch Some AHRA Drag Racing At The Old Tucson Dragway Circa 1983 – John Force and Others!
This is fun video! We’re going back to what looks like the 1983 AHRA Winternationals at the “old” Tucson Dragway which is about a 15 minute (or less) ride from the current Tucson...
Local DRAG CAR Survivor and Other Cool Stuff at the Paradise Dragstrip Toy Drive With The Hot Rod Hoarder
Tommy Lee Byrd is back at it, and was recently out for a show and race at Paradise Dragstrip in December for their annual toy drive show which had been cancelled due to rain two weekends in a row!...
Historic Drag Video: Watch Connie Kalitta Spin An Accidental Funny Car 180 Back In The Early 1970s!
Here’s some fantastic old footage from Detroit Dragway that is cool on about 500 levels. For starters we have two great funny cars in the form of Connie Kalitta and Tom Prock who was driving a...
FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Legion of Demons – Texas Motorplex – Saturday
This is the first Co-Op event from MotorManiaTV in 2024! They will be bringing you events on both their channel and others as they partner with streamers like this week’s DragRacerTV. We work...
Wanna See Inside Alex Taylor’s 3,000 Horsepower Big Block Chevrolet? Check Out The New Parts And Build Right Here.
Everyone knows Alex Taylor’s cool 6-second 1955 Chevrolet that she and the Taylor family put together for Drag and Drive events, as this thing has been a beast. Sure it took some time to iron...
No Prep Drag Racing Video: 2023 New Year’s No Prep at Maple Grove Raceway From Our Pal Joe Grippo
Joe Grippo is one of our awesome photo contributors here at BANGshift.com and has been sending us photo coverage from races, shows, and more for a decade now. He’s a racer, a hot rodder, and...
Larry Larson Has Sold The Cadillac! Here’s The Last Event Video Of 2023. New Chevy II Project In The Works!
Yep, the famed Cadillac that Larry Larson has been racing in the No Prep Kings for the past few years has been sold and is getting a Cummins under the hood! Even funnier is that it is going Pro275...
Excellent Engine: Watch Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun Fire Up Their Scratch Built V12 LSR Engine
If you are a hardcore lover of engines and hot rodding, the name Pete Aardema is not unfamiliar. This is a dude who has built some of the most wild, interesting, over the top, and complicated engines...
High School Hero: This Review Of The 1998 SLP Firebird Firehawk Reminds Us How Awesome These Cars Are
As a senior in high school there was no car I wanted to own more than a 1998 SLP Firebird Firehawk. These cars with their thumping 330+ horsepower, tuned suspension, and slightly revised exterior...
Watch This Racer Suffer A Transmission Explosion From Inside The Car
It does not matter where you are racing or what you are racing, things can go bad in an instant. This video is a graphic example of what can happen when a transmission fails and fails big time on the...
Great Vintage Drag Footage From Cecil County Dragway, All The Legends Battling it Out
Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland first held drag races in 1963. Since then the track has become one of the most active drag plants in the mid-Atlantic region and plays host of a lot of...