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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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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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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...

Will The Italian Grand Prix Be Held At Imola Instead Of Monza Next Year? It Looks Likely…

For a while now, we’ve known that Formula 1 magnate Bernie Ecclestone has been tossing around the idea of removing the Italian Grand Prix from it’s historical home at Monza, either by...

2016 Nissan Titan XD PRO-4X: We Drive The Cummins V8 Powered Rig On and Off Road

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – If there is a bigger truck story in 2016 than the launch of the all new Nissan Titan, we’re not sure what it is. Nissan has pushed all of their proverbial...

More Killer Cars From The 2nd Annual Goodguys/Speedway Motors Day In The Hay – Nebraska Fun!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Scott Liggett moved from southern California to Nebraska he had to have been wondering what the car culture shock would have been like, right? After all, SoCal...

Tune In Tonight! NitroReports Will Be Talking Wall To Wall Drag Racing Starting at 6PM Pacific!

Tonight July 19th NitroReports.com brings on plenty of nitro drag racing with IHRA President Mike Dunn on the season so far – and into 2017. IHRA Edmonton Nitro Funny Car winner Shawn Bowen,...

Drag Action Coverage: The Oklahoma Nostalgia Nationals At Thunder Valley Raceway – Noble, Oklahoma

(Photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – It is pretty interesting when you consider the multiple personalities that different drag strips have. We say that in the most positive way possible,...

Aerospace Components Vacuum Pumps: A Look Inside And A Static

If there is one thing that Aerospace Components is best known for outside of their highly successful brakes, it is their equally as bad ass vacuum pumps. These can be found on engines ranging from...

Drag Action Coverage: PDRA North-South Shootout Photos From Maryland International Raceway

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It was hot as blazes for days on end in Maryland last week but that did not stop the PDRA from cranking out another awesome event that was populated by some of the...

A BangShifter Done Good: One Of Our Contributors Has Gone Into The Classic Car Business – Check It Out!

Editor’s Note: It is always cool when a BangShift Alumnus goes on to do something neat with cars and such is the case with Kaleb Kelley. A former contributor to the site, he’s now in the...

DeWayne Mills Lays Waste To The Turbocharged Drag Radial Record: 3.79@206 MPH!

The drag radial was originally meant to occupy the ground between street tires and slicks for people who didn’t want to have to drag a pair of tires with them every time they wanted to hit the...

Barnstormin’: Winners and Losers – The World Needs Both, Even If You Cannot Admit It

The most basic concept of a race is that someone wins the race and someone loses the race, right? That’s the whole freaking reason that any sort of event like racing, sports of all types, etc...

This Guy Wants To Hemi-Swap This AMC Hornet, But First Wants To Pump Nitrous Through It…Finnegan Can Help With That!

It’s a faded green American Motors project in Finnegan’s garage…but calm down, it’s not the infamous Gremmie. No, this is a 1972 AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon, chock full of...

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See The Historic And Restored Shelby Super Snake Fuel Dragster Roar To Life With Prudhomme At The Wheel! Burnout Too

There are restorations, there are recreations, and then there’s whatever this counts as because it is a restoration as performed by the guys who built the car in the first place. Seriously. Don...