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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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This 1977 Dodge Tandem Axle Van Is A Long Wheelbase, Bedroom Equipped Freak On Wheels!

The revival/resurgence of the vintage vanning scene is still in its growth stages so now is the time to get up on some cool old iron so when the thing blows open like an over ripe melon, you’ll...

Relive Robert Hight’s Massive Explosion From The NHRA St Louis Race Last Year – Body Hit The Jumbotron!

This weekend the NHRA tour rolls back into St Louis for a weekend of intense playoff-series drag racing as the Mello Yello series continues to hammer on to its ultimate finish in Pomona, California....

Overkill: Using A NASCAR To Throw A 140 MPH Bowling Strike Is Awesome!

Alright, it’s a PR rub, plain and simple. You meet NASCAR driver Aric Almirola, you meet professional bowler Jason Belmonte, and you get the idea that things are going to be fun. And of course...

Random Car Review: The 2005 (sigh, do I have to say it?) Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck

Considering that I didn’t spend the better part of 2004-2005 in the United States, when I returned the first thing I did was to scratch my head and wonder what the hell was going on. The big...

BangShift-worthy Aircraft: The XFC-130H Hercules “Operation Credible Sport” – Just Add Rockets!

The taking of hostages in Iran in late 1979 set the U.S. military into motion with the goal of freeing the hostages that were held in the American embassy in Tehran. The first attempt was the...

The 14th Annual Fall Redneck Rumble: Come One, Come All!

The general rule of the Redneck Rumble: If it’s older than 1980, there’s a very solid chance you will see it, and the older it gets, the higher the likelihood that you’ll see it....

Kiss The Rings: Inside Audi’s Automotive Vault (Where The Good Stuff Is!)

You know that every manufacturer keeps a small horde of cars they do not want to let go for various reasons. Think about the cars that GM was forced to sell off as part of the 2008 restructuring...

America The Beautiful: The Library Of Congress Has Published Thousands Of Color Photos From

There’s an incredible new thing for you to spend some time on and it’s a window into the past of America unlike anything you have ever seen. See, back in the 1930s and 40s, the government...

Big Evil: Watch This Twin Turbocharged, Big Block Powered 1970 Ford Ranchero Make 1,500hp To The Tires

There’s big, there’s bad, and then there’s this. Honestly I have never been a fan of the styling around the 1970 Ranchero or Torino. I think they are just too big and there’s...

Watch Brittany Force Make The Quickest Run In Top Fuel History At Maple Grove

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, BAM new top fuel national record. This time it was the tandem of David Grubnic and Brittany Force putting their collective skills together to reset...

This Video Of Gary Phillips Blowing Up A Funny Car And Ending Up In A Farmer’s Garden At National Trail Raceway In 1986 Is Nuts – Driver OK

Australian driver Gary Phillips had one of the scariest rides in NHRA history during the 1986 Columbus national event. National Trail Raceway is a pretty short place and when this event had taken...

Survives And Thrives: This 1980 Ford Fiesta Has Somehow Managed To Live!

As soon as I saw the picture come up, I started to laugh. Memories came flooding back of the one I had a hand in converting into a micro pickup-truck years and years ago. These were throwaway cars...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When Did Your Heart Sink The Lowest?

Without a doubt, the most stressful thing I’ve ever done with a car was the moments when the Imperial’s new engine was fired off for the first time and we started breaking in the...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Battering…Horse?

A little after two in the morning, we officially entered Autumn. Enjoy these days of warmth, of reasonably long sunny periods, of the very early leaves falling in bright color, and the faintest...