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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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This Vintage Sunbeam Tiger Club Racer Takes a Big Shunt But Races On

Tom Patton has made a name for himself in the club racing world for steadfastly campaigning his white Sunbeam Tiger in the SCCA for decades. Today, Patton’s old Rootes Group V8 roadster races in...

Watch LIVE: Drag Racing From IHRA Martin, Loose Rocker Colonial Classic, And PDRA Memphis.

Can’t decide what flavor of live drag racing you want to watch this weekend? Don’t worry, we’ve got it all! IHRA, PDRA, or Bracket Racing at the Loose Rocker Colonial Classic,...

Bonneville Speed Week 2016: The Friday Night Nugget Car Show Tradition Continues

Bonneville is about tradition and ritual. Some of those traditions and rituals have been in place since SCTA speed week began in 1948 and others of them may not have quite that level of history but...

MoparNats 2016: Our First Round Of Photos From The Massive All-Mopar Meetup In Ohio!

I’m on the ground at the MoparNats at National Trail Raceway in Ohio and…well, I’m in awe. If there is a Mopar product you enjoy, it’s here. That’s just it. It’s...

This 1964 F85 More Door Olds Is Perfect In Almost Every Way Or Maybe It Is Perfect In Every Way?

If we can pick the telegraphed punches that will be thrown at this killer 1964 Olds Cutlass F85 it’ll be that the car has too many doors, that it has an automatic transmission, and that it has...

Larry Chen Shoots Quarter Midgets Racing At Indianapolis Motor Speedway And The Results Are Spectacular

We have to admit to being complete fan boys of photographer and writer Larry Chen. The guy is an incredible shooter who captures the events he attends in a way that few others can or could. His...

Bonneville Speed Week 2013 – Our Last Teaser Gallery Before 2016 Action Begins

We are here at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats for SCTA-BNI Speed Week 2013. Chad arrived early this afternoon and blasted a gallery of 80 photos that highlight some of the coolest stuff he saw in...

Unhinged: Hitting The Road And Checking Off Bucket List Items!

As you are reading this, Brian and Chad are either on the salt at Bonneville or are en route to standing on racing’s hallowed ground for the first time in a couple of years. We’ve missed...

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Rough Start: Like Fox Mustangs? Check Out This 1985 Mustang GT – Get ‘Em While They’re Still Cheap!

I find it kind of surprising that you can still hit up Craigslist and find decently priced Fox Mustangs within the first page or two of searching. They’re so popular it’s not even funny,...

Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia Looks Like a Riot – Check Out This Highlight Video

As Europe’s first permanent drag racing facility, Santa Pod Raceway carries the torch for big muscle and small ET’s across the pond and this year finds Santa Pod celebrating 50 years of...

Can’t Be Climbed? These RZR Drivers Should Have Paid Attention To The Warning On This Wicked Bounty Hill!

Money…the root of all evil and the reason why ordinarily intelligent people make very, very questionable decisions. You know what we mean: twenty bucks and that one strange kid...

The Hangover 150 Looks Like the Best Way to Ring in the New Year

The people of western New York come from hardy stock. The shrug at a couple feet of snow during the long, Great Lakes-aided winters, opting to down a few Labatt Blues and carry on with their day...

This Grainy 8mm Footage Captures Some of the Earliest Winged Sprint Cars Ever Built

In the 1950s, the study and application of aerodynamic principles in race cars was a fairly novel concept. For the most part, aero was a slippery subject: Streamlined cars surely sliced through the...

eBay Find: This 1971 Toyota Crown MS75 Coupe Is Super Rare And Looks Killer As A Drag Car!

A 1971 Toyota Crown coupe. No, I haven’t lost my freaking marbles, thank you very much. A 1971 Toyota anything that isn’t a Celica or truck normally doesn’t warrant any attention...