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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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Carlisle Chrysler Nationals 2016 Coverage : Nearly 3,000 Awesome Cars Packed The Place

(Photos by Joe Grippo) –  The Carlisle Chrysler Nationals 2016 may be over but they have left a rousing impression on anyone who attended or even those who happened to drive through the area....

BangShift Project Files Update: Checking In On A Toyota FJ40 That Has Been Given A Second Lease On Life!

If you go into the woods of Western Washington, there is no telling what you may find. There’s just about everything you can think of hidden among the blackberry vines and salal thickets and...

The Quickest Street Legal Electric Car? This 1974 Enfield 8000 Can Haul The Mail Without A Sound!

Eight horsepower, a range of forty miles (give or take) and a top speed that might have hit 48 miles an hour if the winds were on your side…there is a reason why it’s taken a car like the...

The Power Of The Rotary Compels You! This 8-Second Mazda RX-8 Is As Angry As It Is Purple!

Felix Wankel was a genius of a man, but whether he knew or not the capability his design would have went with him to the grave in 1988. Surely, he had to know…Between NSU and Mazda,...

PDRA North-South Shootout Coverage Continues: Lots Of Killer Bikes, Cars, More

(Photos by David Whealon) – The other day we showed you some awesome Benoit Pigeon photos that concentrated on the major classes that people associate with the PDRA. Today we’re back...

Mega Trucks On The Motocross Track? Hell Yes! High Flyin’ Monsters Always Rule!

Whoever thought this one up, bravo…congratulate and treat yourself, you deserve it. During the Pro Mega X event at Florida Track and Trails, mega trucks were allowed to test out the motocross...

Cornfield Customs: Our Tour Of The Shop Continues – Cool Stuff Everywhere

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – But there’s more….   There was no way to contain our visit to Cornfield Customs into just one article.  Even though they are still getting things...

This beautifully shot video of Maryland’s 75-80 Dragway is the best thing you’ll see today

In nearly every corner of the United States, one can typically find an abandoned racetrack without much effort. Every track has its own story, which also includes the reasons for closure and vacancy....

Carlos Astor Stands His Malibu Wagon Up On The Bumper During RMRW 2016

Carlos Astor isn’t afraid to spray the hell out of his cool G-Body Malibu Wagon, in fact 350 horsepower worth of nitrous flows into this bad boy. But with great power comes great...

Bowen, Litton, Turner Take IHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals – Wild Photo Sequence Inside

(Photos by Big Bob Snyder – Words by IHRA Communications and Darr Hawthorne)   Shawn Bowen, driving his “Violator” nitro funny car captured the AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car title at...

Video: Destroyed Koenigsegg One:1 Being Loaded Onto Ramp Truck – $3.1 Million Scrap

We’re not really known as huge supercar or hypercar guys around here but we have some big time respect for Koenigsegg and their One:1. For those of you not paying attention the One:1 is the...

Beautiful Beast: The Last Lola T70 Mk1 Ever Made Is For Sale – Huge Dollars, Cool History

If you have more than a half million dollars burning a hole in your jeans, let us direct you to the quickest and coolest way to spend it. We found the last Lola T70 Mk1 ever built for sale on eBay...

Got Salt Fever? With A 2016 Event Looking Likely, We Dug Up A Gallery From McTaggart’s First Trip To Bonneville!

For the last couple of years, anyone talking about Bonneville has spoken of the salt with a tinge of either sadness or anger in their voice. For two years now, there has been no racing on the salt...

Cool News: Aeromotive Teams With Fuel Safe To Provide Vehicle Safety During Hollywood Action Films!

Well this is one of the neater pieces of sponsor news we shared in a while! It seems that Aeromotive and Fuel Safe have teamed up to develop a safe fuel system for use in Hollywood stunt car builds...