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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals Photos: Sportsman Action From Hardcore Thursday At Pomona

(Photos by Wes Allison) – It is the beginning of the end of the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season with the kick off of the 2018 NHRA Auto Club World finals at Auto Club Raceway in...

BangShift Test Drive: The 2019 Mustang GT Convertible Continues The 50+ Year Tradition of Fun

(Photos by Dave Nutting) –  Yawn you say, scroll on by. A drop top, automatic Mustang. Boring. While this adult version of the Mustang perhaps lacks the wanton fury of the 8,000 RPM GT350R, it...

COMP Performance Group Flexed Their Muscles At SEMA 2018 – Massive Array Of Products and Parts!

When it comes to the mightiest names in the high performance aftermarket, the COMP Performance Group is among the top. They have a collection of product lines that covers everything from blocks to...

SEMA 2018: Aeromotive Wins SEMA Manufacturer Of The Year Award

Longtime BangShift sponsor Aeromotive Fuel Systems won what can be argued is the most prestigious award that SEMA gives out, Manufacturer of the Year at the 2018 show. The company received this award...

Rough Start: Diving Off Of The Deep End With A Big-Block Ready Plymouth Turismo

Believe it or not, I do have a limit when it comes to automotive weirdness. There is only so far I can go before even I stop in my tracks and utter an expletive or two under my breath as I absorb...

This 1960 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon Is Probably The Nicest One In The World

There are certain cars that stand as reminders of just how bad ass Detroit was in the golden age of the car business. The 1960 Mercury Colony Park station wagon we found for sale on eBay is amazing....

American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Turbocharged 13B Rotary And A Sequential Trans Make This An 8-Second Street Car

There’s someone about old, vintage Japanese cars that we dig around here. The styling is reminiscent of American muscle cars, their power plants were mostly weaklings but sometimes cool, and...

2018 SEMA Photo Coverage: The Last Blast From The Camera Of Lohnes

(Photos by the author) – From rat rods to OEM offerings, the SEMA show really has everything you’d ever want to check out as a gearhead. For years it was just Ford up front, Chevy in the...

Classic YouTube: The First Recorded Automobile Racing Incident? Louis Chevrolet’s 1919 Fire At Coney Island

The man whose name is one of the most famous in the world thanks to it’s associations with a brand of automobiles was more racer and engineer than he ever was a “car company”...

SEMA 2018: Mahle Motorsport Continues To Bring You The Best Pistons For Your Project

Looking inside of your engine, you will find that precious few things take more of a beating that the pistons themselves. They have to tolerate the abuses of controlled explosions, tons of forces...

Watch Robert Hight’s Crazed Trip Into The Net At The 2017 NHRA World Finals

Robert Hight enters the 2018 NHRA World Finals as the second runner in the fuel funny car points chase. If you think that worries him one bit, you missed the memo on what he did in 2017. The murky...

Holley EFI Goes Big! Real Big! New Pro Series 12.3″ Digital Dashes Are Here And These Suckers Are Bad Ass!

Digital touch screen dashes come in everything known to man nowadays, and with companies like Holley EFI and Racepak providing a variety of options, it seemed like everyone could get something that...

This $1,000 Nissan Pulsar Seems Like A Barrel Of Fun In The Dirt – The Cure For The Quarter Million Deusey

Life is about balance and on a day when we showed you a $250,000 clone Deusenberg we felt that there needed to be an appropriately BangShift palate cleanse to follow it. This car stands as a perfect...

How Much Is Enough: This Duesenberg Clone Has An Asking Price Of $249,000 – Crazy or Not?

Clone cars are nothing new, there’s a booming market for them all over the place but some of them are certainly in a different league than others. That can be a good thing or a bad thing....