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Atlanta Dragway Returns As 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series World Finals Location! The International Hot Rod Association Acquires Atlanta Dragway in Banks County, Georgia.

That’s right folks, after announcing that they have taken over Virginia Motorsports Park most recently, and tons of other iconic tracks around the country in the last 6 months, the IHRA...

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World Rally Championship FULL ONBOARD Video From WRC Rally Sweden Stage 17 with Katsuta and Johnston

I miss that you don’t get to watch every World Rally Championship event from start to finish like we used to get back in the day, unless you pay for a subscription of some kind. The coverage...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Brrrrrrrrr… Texas Cash Days In The Cold Means Tuners Were Working Hard To Put Power Down In The Lonestar State

Like most of the country, we’ve had some weird weather down here in Texas over the past couple of months. From absurdly warm to bitter cold, and everything in between. Like many, we were iced...

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Junkyard Crawl With Steve Magnante: Steve Found A 1 of 2,553 Barracuda Formula S Convertible At Backyard Auto In New Hampshire!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car project or two. Today is a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S Convertible, of which only 2,553...

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Trailer Tech: Here Are Some Simple, But Effective, Trailer Upgrades That Save You Time, Money, and Aggravation When Hauling A Load

I’m a big fan of trailers, and I own a few different sizes. With that said, I am one of those people that is always contemplating another size to add to the fleet because they are just so...

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Rough Start: Can You Scare Yourself With A Budget Find? This 1973 Omega Might Do The Trick!

Some concessions have to be made when you are playing with a small budget. You aren’t getting a top-tier model name. You aren’t getting a supercharged big-block, you aren’t getting...

Here Is Another Batch Of Photos From Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2018. Check Out All These Cars!

We’ve been at Barrett-Jackson since Sunday and we have shot photos of almost every car hear so far, but we’re not stopping until we get them all. We’ll have galleries posting up...

The 48-Hour Camaro Build Continues! Check Out The Progress We Made Yesterday

The 48-Hour 2nd Gen Camaro is coming along nicely! We’re having a lot of fun, while working hard, to put together one hell of a cool 1971 Camaro that Bret Voelkel from Ridetech is going to...

Bonneville Speed Week Photos: Here Are Some More Unpublished Shots From The Salt This Year

(Photos by the author) – Doing some “winter cleaning” of the ol’ laptop and I managed to find some images from Speed Week this past year that I never ran. Since we’re...

Neat Induction Find: This McFarland TorkLink Intake Manifold Is A Neat Twist On A Dual Plane SBC Application

Just when you think you have seen every small block Chevy intake manifold on planet Earth, this happens! You are looking at a McFarland TorkLink single four barrel intake manifold for a small block...

MAHLE Motorsport Introduces PowerPak Piston Kits for Ford Big Block Super Cobra Jet, Kaase P-51 and Air Flow Research 14º Cylinder Heads

Pistons, we love them around here. Pistons are at the root of all things BangShifty, right? MAHLE Motorsports knows this and they continue to develop new, high quality products to meet the needs of...

More Wintertime Fun: Semi-Truck Donuts In The Snow!

Once again, there’s snow at BangShift Mid-West and I’m not playing in it. Adding insult to injury, I’ve had the fun of trying to extract my neighbor’s pickup truck from the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Blowers Through Hoods Make A Comeback?

Every car magazine that wasn’t Road and Track or Automobile had them on the cover: a hunkered down piece of wicked creation that had a massive blower sticking through the hood. It was the...

It’s Moving…It’s Alive: The Frankenstein Monte Carlo Is Ready To Terrorize!

How do you do? Mr. Justin Malcom feels that it would be a little unkind to the competition to not provide just a word of friendly warning about the vehicle you are about to watch. We are about to...

Cynthiana Rod Run Photo Coverage: More Hot Rods, More Muscle Cars, More Fun Stuff

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We are fairly regular on keeping up with the local cruise-in scene and one thing we like about the Rod Run is that it brings out cars we seldom see and a...

Project Angry Grandpa: Putting Old Skills To New Uses (Or, How To Love Fixing Wiring Connectors)

The problems for the Angry Grandpa Chrysler started on the last day of the PRI show. As Lohnes and I were getting our cars warmed up in the morning before heading over to the convention center, two...

2017 Olcott Beach Car Show Photo Coverage: Nearly 1000 Cars and A Beautiful Setting

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of hot rods and cool cars flock to Krull park in Olcott Beach, NY and gather along the scenic shores of Lake Ontario. This year’s...

Bad News: Raceway Park Will Cease Drag Racing Operations – The End Of Englishtown Appears To Be Nigh

BangShift.com has learned that Raceway Park will cease racing operations in 2018. This is unhappy news to say the least. At this point our understanding is that there will not be a 2018 drag racing...

The Ridetech 48-Hour 2nd Gen Camaro Build Is On At Barrett-Jackson! And It Sure Is Fun!

This is our 4th 48-Hour build and this time it is a bitchin orange 1970 Camaro that is getting the full boogie build LIVE at Barrett-Jackson with a full audience and everything. The car is getting a...