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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: You Know What I Miss Most? The Humor.

Only in one aspect can I truly align working behind the counter at (STORE NAME HERE) and the military: the job itself kind of sucks, the leadership blows harder than a Funny Car engine most of the...

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Rough Start: Buy A 1978 Ford Granada And Get Two Engines As Well!

My opinion of the Ford Granada is well-known here: nope. They are an over-dressed Maverick, which means that really, they are nothing more than a gussied-up 1960 Ford Falcon, from the “that...

Testing Out The Chi-Town Hustler Dodge Omni Funny Car At Route 66!

The Chi-Town Hustler is one of those legendary funny-car names that stops die-hard fans in their tracks and turns them directly to the track, and causes newcomers and those who have no clue about how...

Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Consider To Be The Ultimate Classic?

The dreaded question: what is the best of the best? The “one”? We can’t make our minds up on our own personal favorite car, let alone to pick one automobile that would be the...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Roasted Twinkies And A Nuclear Hot Hatch!

Has summer already gotten away from us? The temperatures are still nice and pleasant, but I could swear that I smelled burning leaves on the wind and…oh, no. No, no, no. There’s a leaf on...

NSRA Streetkhana! This Ain’t About Power Parking – Corner Burning, Cone Killing Action

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – NSRA brings back its own version of autocrossing to select events.  I can’t recall the last time NSRA had autox at its events, but it has been at least...

How Not to Endurance Race: This Driver Somehow Avoids a Crazy First-Lap Crash in a 24-Hour Race

The annual 24-hour race at the Nurburgring might just be the most grueling and daunting motor race. The massive track winds through the Eiffel Mountains in Germany and when it gets dark around the...

Pink Floyd Drummer’s Daughter Races a Pink Vintage Austin Named Floyd

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is well-known for his automotive enthusiasm. The rock star owns an impressive collection of priceless cars and even race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times during his...

Tough Video: Watch Bucky Hess Suffer A Crash In The Amazing Kandy Kuda Super Stock Hemi Car

The 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals have already provided some amazing and fun to watch action in the form of wheelies, track records, and header flames for days, but there was one...

Watch Big Chief’s Press Conference And The First NHRA Pro Mod Competition Run For The Crow Mod

It was a big day for the NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod series on Friday at the 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals. The category had the single gnarliest qualifying session in its history and...

Morning Symphony: An R33 Nissan Skyline Tearing Around A Mountain Pass

Blame Gran Turismo for my fascination with this car. The Nissan Skyline is the ultimate “forbidden fruit” car from Japan for me, and it’s all due to that damn game. It was the car...

Cruising Through Fall In Style! This 1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Droptop Is The Perfect Way To Enjoy Autumn!

If you believed the naysayers back in 1975, cars like this Pontiac Grand Ville convertible were about to be relegated to the history books. It was too big, especially after the first Arab oil embargo...

Question Of The Day: What Kind Of School Bus Did You Ride As A Kid?

Now that school is in session, Bowling Green is filled to the brim with school busses ferrying kids across town and cops monitoring school zones. Since I live far enough away from the city that...

Miata Karts? These MX-5 Owners Go For The Gold When It Comes To Modifying Mazda’s Little Roadster!

(Photos: via Miata Karts of ‘Murica) Ever since it’s 1989 introduction, Mazda’s MX-5 Miata roadster has done nothing but earn praise for it’s handling characteristics. Call it...

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