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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Off-Road Expo 2016 Had All The Big Tire Goodness You Expect!

I’m a big fan of off-road trucks, Jeeps, and anything that plays in the dirt. I have a hard core soft spot for desert and short course style rigs, but you just can’t help but love...

Wait For It – This Blown Falcon Lays Down A Space Shuttle Launch On The Streets Of Topeka!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Sometimes it is easy to lose reality of how powerful or how fast some cars actually are when they are surrounded by equally matched cars at a racetrack. A good example is...

Finale: Here’s Our Last Batch Of Drag Week 2016 Images From Summit Racing Motorsports Park

(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – So we have made it to the end of the photo extravaganza that allowed us to relive Tuesday at Hot Rod Drag Week 2016. Rick Johnson at Gear Vendors deserves tons of...

This Ultra Slow Motion Look At Doug Kalitta’s Top Fuel Car On A Failed Launch Is Mental

To the casual fan, top fuel is an overwhelming stack of stats and numbers. 320+ mph, 11,000hp, 0-100 in less than one second. They are huge numbers and insane numbers but do they really mean...

Watch the Mayhem of Early 24 Hours of LeMons Races

The 24 Hours of LeMons celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first race this weekend at Gingerman Raceway and while I’ll be there wearing the robes of the LeMons Supreme Court. While the endurance...

This Old Mickey Thompson Cross Ram Intake Manifold For Ford FE Big Blocks May Not Make Power But It Sure Is Cool

There are things that sometimes transcend horsepower. Take this intake manifold for example. Currently sitting for sale on eBay for about $3,600 it is one of the only Mickey Thompson “Power...

Nostalgia Drags Coverage: The Most BangShifty Cars At Maple Grove Glory Days

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – When it comes to nostalgia drag racing there are lots of different ways one can go. You can run a slingshot dragster and experience the same feeling that the hardcore...

BangShift Previews: The Bathurst 1000, Australia’s Great Race

The Virgin Supercars Championship—formerly V8 Supercars—will tackle the daunting Mount Panorama Circuit this weekend for the 54th running of Australia’s Great Race, the SuperCheap Auto Bathurst...

Drag Week 2016 Photos: More Images From The Pits And The Strip During Drag Racing’s Wildest Week

(Images by Jose Ferrer) – Just when you thought it was safe to go outside we’re back with more great Drag Week photos! This time the images were snapped through the lens of Jose...

It’s Over: Ford Production Of Iconic Falcon Model Ends In Australia – It Was Almost An American Cop Car

It is a scene that anyone who loves cars and knows anything about automotive history has seen before. Two auto workers fitting a sign onto the final production unit of a long running model. It...

Watch Film From When You Could Park Your Car a Few Feet From a Presidential Motorcade

Mid-century films and newsreels always seem to show some incredible way in which the world has changed and this “lost” footage of John F. Kennedy visiting Chicago for the first time as president...

Someone Created A Mid-70’s El Camino Limo… It’s Big, Brown, And It’s For Sale!

You all know that we here at BangShift love the Chevrolet El Camino, one of the original factory built Trars. And you know we love homemade insanity, like weird 4×4 El Caminos, badge swapped...

Free Shipping For All Online Orders From Prolong – From Car Care Products To Racing Oil!

Shipping is one of those boogiemen that seems to creep into every transaction online and only seems to be getting more painful by the year. You know the feeling. You decide to buy something and then...

A Big Block, Mint Interior, Professionally Painted Woodgrain, and AC – THIS Is The Wagon Master and It Could Be Yours

While we are certainly enthusiastic about station wagons around these hallowed halls, all wagons are not created equally. For example, this 1969 Dodge Coronet wagon is way cooler than an equivalent...