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NHRA Pro Mod Series Qualifying Session 1 LIVE from the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte. Ultimate Door Car Action!

NHRA 4-Wide Drag Racing is going on in Charlotte this weekend and that means Pro Mods! 4-Wide Pro Mod drag racing might be some of the coolest, and the action is always amazing at this race. We know...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Friday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Factory Hemi Superbird Feature Video: This 1,500-Mile HEMI Superbird Has SERIOUS Drag Racing History!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it and in this video below you are going to get a look at an awesome 1970 Plymouth Superbird that came from the factory with the famed 426 Hemi under...

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LS Fest Quick Take: The Little Red Jeep Liberty

I was up in the tower with Lohnes, getting a break from the heat when we both saw it. Among the hot rods, budget swaps and other assorted race machines was a red Jeep Liberty that looked...

Pro Stock Time Machine – Check Out This IHRA Moutain Motor Action From St Louis, Circa 1985

With all the talk about today’s modern NHRA pro stock category and how mountain motors may be a part of it heading into the future, we thought we would look into the past. See, the NHRA tour...

Safety In 1975 Video: Watch Race Drivers And Regular People Talk About The Wonder Of Seatbelts 40+ Years Ago

There’s something to be said for seatbelts. We all went through a phase in our lives when putting on a seatbelt was like admitting you enjoyed Culture Club music in the 1980s. It was shameful...

Coolness! Check Out This Episode Of The Long Forgotten “Pro Drag Superstars” TV Show From 1985

I love finding stuff like this. Ever heard of the TV show “Pro Drag Superstars”? I sure had not before stumbling onto this video that was hiding a dark, recessed corner of YouTube. The...

Amazing Historical Video: Listen To Amazing Audio From Breedlove and Arfons During Their 1960s Land Speed Duel – Incredible Peek Into History

We show lots of old videos here on BangShift and some of them are silent. I normally am not too busted about that because the moving pictures are so compelling to look at you can get around the lack...

Satellite Launch: Digging A Long-Dead Plymouth Out Of It’s Grave!

Have you ever looked at a page like Cars in Barns or the many Instagram pages of forlorn, abandoned old machines and wondered just how much work really would need to go and bring that beast to life?...

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Let’s Go Supermodified Racing! Ride Along During A Race At Sandusky Speedway – Awesome

With a big block Chevrolet hanging off the left side and competitors mere inches from the open wheels on the right, there can’t be anything more intense than driving a real-deal Supermodified....

Rust And Rarity: This 1970 IH Travelette Is A Project That Needs Finished!

I’m always a fan of the oddball project vehicle. Always have been, always will be. I don’t see much wrong in staying mainstream, but there’s always one common complaint: when...

The Starting Shift: A Gear Banging Pass in A Clutchless Five Speed Nova!

We’re freaking BangShift so we need to start our week with manual transmission violence, damn it! We’re getting back on the horse with a good one here. This is a Chevy Nova driven by a...

Sherriff Branford Approved: Can You Rally A Dodge Charger Pursuit?

I don’t know how many people are taught how to drive like they are a stunt driver when they are years away from a driver’s license, but it is one of the highlights of my childhood that I...

Incredible: The Project Apollo Archive Released More Than 8,000 Rarely Or Never Seen Apollo Mission Photos! Must See

Welcome to a bonafide Monday time suck. The link below is to the Project Apollo Archive and this is quite literally a stunning private effort that has been put forth to share and document the...

The Straight-Eight Challenge: Will Either One Of These Ancient Engines Run?

Waking up cars from the dead will always be a challenge, but for the past sixty years or so, give or take, the designs of the engine are pretty much the same: inline four, inline six, V8 and up....

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BangShift Tune-Up: “Shake It Up” by The Cars (1981)

Oh, MTV…how you ruined a kid like me. Thanks to adults that had anything better to do than to keep their eyes on little old me, I fell for music videos hard. And in the late 1980s, MTV was...

In-Car Video: See What It Is Like To Race The Fastest Figure Eight Stock Car Series In America

We have showed you lots of video that highlights the complete craziness of Figure eight stock car racing in the past but we have never placed you inside one of the cars. Not only are we placing you...