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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Money No Object: The Mid-Engined 1978 Oldsmobile 442 Is Up For Auction!

What can you say about a car that has been covered front, back, and sideways? This 1978 Oldsmobile 442 has been around the block since it made the October 1978 cover of Hot Rod Magazine. You...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again…

Welcome to the halfway point of the year! Six months down, six months to go…and we’ve got all summer ahead of us! Since there’s a myriad of shows, races, events, builds, and other...

Factory Freak: Take A Closer Look At The Steam-Powered 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle!

In the quest for cleaner, safer energy, experiments have to be undertaken to provide validation to the theory someone has presented. Take turbine energy, for example: works great as a propulsion...

Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge – Mustangs Crashing, Stock Car G-bodies, And A Sliding Yukon!

Spectator drags are the equivalent of amateur night at the local wrestling joint. Pay a few bucks hoping to win a few bucks, hop into the ring with a bunch of people who have no business being there...

Rough Start: This 1978 Chevy Caprice Is A Great High-Schooler’s Car. Just Don’t Break That Rear Glass!

A while back I read a story on how putting a new driver into an older vehicle was somehow equivalent to child abuse. The line of thinking went something like this: after seeing a couple of old vs....

BangShift Test Drive: 2017 Ram 3500 Laramie Mega Cab 4×4 – Living Large In Every Way Possible

Every generation gets their status-symbol vehicle. Be it the ultimate chrome barge from the 1950s, great Lincoln vs. Cadillac cars from the 1960s and 1970s, 1980s power sedans from BMW and Mercedes,...

Watch This Guy Fire Up A Screaming Axial Flow Micro Jet Engine On His Balcony – Think The Neighbors Freaked?

There’s a pretty incredible culture of modelers and scale builders out there that we’re blown away by every time we stumble upon it. There are guys flying model airplanes, quarter scale...

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Money No Object: The One Thunderbird That Lohnes Would Happily Drive?

Ford Thunderbirds are a kind of polarizing topic around here. Lohnes only likes the two-seaters and wishes the rest were shredded into a fine metallic mist. I’m actually not that big of a fan...

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In Memoriam: Tom Tjaarda, Designer Extrordinaire – From Ford Fiestas To Dream Cars, From His Vision

The range of vehicles that the man born Stevens Thompson Tjaarda van Starkenburg knows almost no limit. In his eighty-two years on earth, he created some of the most memorable designs, from basic...

Rough Start: A Chevelle May Be Pricey, But This 1972 Chevrolet El Camino Is Just Within The Budget!

I want a Chevelle. You may want a Chevelle. My wife wants a Chevelle. Everybody I know wants a Chevrolet Chevelle. There’s just one problem: there were only so many produced, only so many...

Can A Clapped-Out Malibu Run Nines For Under $2,000? This Guy Is Trying!

We love a good budget build around here. Mainly because we all are working underneath a budget. What can we say…we aren’t farmers, we can’t grow cash trees. But you can have fun for...

Unhinged: A GoFundMe Account To Pay Off A Honda Owner’s Speeding Ticket For Dusting A Mustang!

I’ll be up-front about it: on the whole, I dislike GoFundMe campaigns. Why? Because for every truly worthy cause (such as the campaign to raise money for Chad and Daphne that was started by a...

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Old For A Reason: Check Out This 1922 Walker Floor Jack For Sale On Craigslist!

Readers, thank forum member Andrew Crouch for this find, because he dug into Craigslist much, much farther than I normally do. I go hunting for random cars, but he wins this week’s top find...

Morning Symphony: Drifting A Talbot Lotus Sunbeam, Chrysler’s Last Gasp In Europe

What does a Talbot hatchback have to do with Chrysler? It goes like this: Starting in the late 1950s, Chrysler started buying interests in European auto manufacturers, emulating the successes that...