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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: Testing And Qualifying Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 2026 BMW M Endurance Challenge, Michelin Pilot Challenge, And Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Gone Pullin’! Here’s Our Last Gallery From The 2017 Mule City 300 at GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) –  Well we have finally made it to the end of David Whealon’s photo coverage from the 2017 Mule City 300 at GALOT Motorsports Park. You’ll see a killer...

2017 LA Roadster Show Coverage: The Photo Onslaught Continues – Check These Out!

We’re just loving these images from the 2017 LA Roadster Show. Why? It’s fun in the sun with what looks like about half a gazillion cars, that’s why! In this collection of photos we...

2017 Race of Gentlemen Coverage: Check Out The Sweetness In The Car and Bike Corral

(Photos by Anthony Festa – Check out his website here) – The 2017 Race of Gentlemen once again delivered the type of fun and the type of unique atmosphere that the event has become known...

Holley Hot Rod Reunion 2017: Our Final Gallery! The Show Winners And, Of Course, CACKLEFEST!

Over the last week we’ve given you everything that the camera could capture at the Holley Hot Rod Reunion 2017. We walked the show fields over and over, trying to find cars we may have...

Fun In The Mud: Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park Is Heaven For The Dirt-Lovers!

When a racer puts their name on a track, that’s as good of an endorsement as you’ll ever need. And off the top of my head, I can only think of one example: Dennis Anderson’s Muddy...

Money No Object: This 2016 Camaro SS Track Weapon Is Built To Kill – The Writeup Sells The Car

I almost brushed this 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS off as a visuals-only build while surfing eBay. It’s easy to do: take a standard Camaro, throw money at the visuals, and somehow that equates into...

Twelve Seconds? Ten Seconds? Take A Guess How Fast This AMC Gremlin Is!

“Sleeper” is an overused term in my opinion. People will go well out of their way to justify how a particular car is a sleeper, and most fail the sniff test…tires, exhaust note,...

The 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE Can Run The Nurburgring In 7:16.04 – Here’s The Gear-Banging In-Car Proof!

When Chevrolet ran a standard sixth-gen Camaro ZL1 around the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in 7:29.60, many were quick to praise it. That’s a brutally fast time for a sub-$100K car, let alone one...

Jim Murphy Wins Top Fuel At NHRA Holley Hot Rod Reunion And Takes Points Lead!

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart – Words courtesy of NHRA Communications)   Regional rain couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the 2017 NHRA Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway...

This Four-Speed Equipped 1973 Pontiac GTO Is A Large and Rare Bird – Late Muscle Coolness

Late muscle cars are growing on us. Seriously. A few years ago we would not have given a second thought, glance, or care about a ’em. Now? Now we’re kind of interested because the cars...

2017 Race Of Gentlemen Photo Coverage: One Of The Neatest Events In The Country Delivers Again

(Words and photos by Anthony Festa – AnthonyPhillipFesta.com) – This year marked the 5th outing for The Race of Gentlemen, a Stultz & Sons Productions event that harkens back to the...

2017 Gasser Reunion Coverage – The Party Was At Thompson Dragway And We Were There!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – I mentioned my own personal history with the Gasser Reunion event that’s been happening at Ohio’s Thompson Dragway for about 15 years now yesterday. The...

Mule City 300 Coverage: More Trucks and Tractors Straining Against The Sled

(Photos by David Whealon) – Every type of motorsport becomes more fun to watch at night. This includes pulling and the photos from David Whealon at the Mule City 300 below totally prove it....

2017 LA Roadster Show Coverage: Roadsters, Racers, Coupes VWs and More!

You may think that because the show is called the LA Roadster show that’s all you’d see at the Pomona Fairplex but you’d be very, very wrong about that. As we have showed you in the...