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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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Check Out The New Products That Auto Meter Rolled Out For SEMA 2016! Need Gauges? They’ve Got ‘Em!

Ever since 1957, Auto Meter has been at the forefront of aftermarket gauges for the performance car community. They are one of the most recognizable brands in the aftermarket in terms of gauges, and...

Completely Nuts: Kiwi Racer Vaults Catch Fencing in Tumbling Toyota

While not widely known in the United States, the Toyota TR 86 (sold as the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ stateside) is considered a solid entry-level race car in many other parts of the world. A few of...

2016 Fall Carlisle Swap Meet Coverage: It Was Wet But There Were Deals Aplenty

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Every fall the massive Carlisle Swap Meet happens in Pennsylvania and draws gearheads from all over North America. This is a place to find cars, parts, memorabilia,...

This 1966 Dodge Charger Is Heavy On The CHAR, Completely Bizarre, Wild Engine

We have to place full credit on the shoulders of II Much’s John Ulaszek for tipping us off to what may be the most wacky 1966 Dodge Charger ever built. Featuring a hood with scoops from an...

Sick Of LS-Swapped Nissans? How About A Toyota With A Small-Block Ford?

Drift events. Cars and Coffee. LS Fest. Hell, the kid down the street is probably ripping the guts out of a Nissan 180SX or 240SX and is preparing to jam it full of late-model GM V8. And if the...

Roadkill! The Story Of The Dirt-Track Challenger, The Mopar Nats And Roadkill Nights On Woodward Avenue!

If you remember this summer, I basically was road tripping all over middle America with our Angry Grandpa 300C. I hit up the Mopar Nats at National Trail Raceway, then drove up to Michigan to see the...

Video: The Inside Story On The Insane 3,500hp Wagler Competition Duramax

Wagler Competition has long been a strong name in the diesel performance world. The company has been a leader in Duramax performance for years and they offer lots of hard parts for guys looking to...

SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)

If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...

2016 Cynthiana Rod Run Burnout Contest Cars And Action

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The 2016 Cynthiana Rod Run pretty much wrapped up with the burnout contest that partly took place during a light shower.  It had been a steamy, humid day...

SEMA 2016: Think We’re Done Showing You SEMA Cars And Trucks? Wrong

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – We’re back with more photos from the lens of Bryan McTaggart and our ragged week covering the 2016 SEMA show. Bryan did a great job and will continue to...

SEMA 2016: Chevrolet Actually Asked Us To Flog Their Cars At Spring Mountain Motorsports Park And Tell You How They Did!

If the SEMA coverage so far makes it sound like Lohnes and I had one hell of a week…well, we did. SEMA wasn’t even the start of our week…Lohnes was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,...

Video: Todd Lesenko Violent Nitro Funny Car Explosion At Pomona 2012 – Incredible Slo-Mo Footage!

Todd Lesenko is a veteran of the drag racing nitro wars. The Canadian driver has competed in modern and nostalgia funny cars and top fuelers. He’s also exploded a few. That may explain his...

Rough Start: This 1976 Ford Elite Is Nice And Is Just A Few Mods Away From Great!

How much longer are you going to be able to find a relatively cheap 1970s car that isn’t beyond hope? Every year I keep thinking that “this will be it”, and every year I find a...

Yes! We Found A Pristine and Functional 1933 Chevy Wrecker For Sale

Being a tow truck driver these days is tough and dangerous work. From the long hours on the road to the risk of some idiot plowing into you on the highway, there’s a lot of risks associated...