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LIVE Big Money Bracket Racing: The West Coast Bracket Races Southwest Showdown Is LIVE Right Here All Weekend Long!

It’s that time of year again, when racers from the western states and beyond show up at Tucson Dragway for what has become the premier event of the West Coast Bracket Races series. The Southwest...

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Toronto Motorama Car Show Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, Race Cars, And More! Doing It Up Canada Style!

(Photos by Mike Brooks)  Continuing with his Toronto Motorama traditions, Mike Brooks has visited the great white north for the Toronto Motorama again this year. We’re used to seeing Brooks...

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Ultimate Street Car Season Begins With Racing In Texas! Here’s Why Running Early In The Season Matters For Championship Pursuits

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series officially kicked off at G2 Motorsports Park in Anna, Texas. When the grid lined up, the...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Sportsman Door Cars, Pro Mods, Pro Stock Bikes And More!

We’ve shared a few galleries of photos from David Whealon already but now we’re getting into some of the photos from Richard Pasley too. Check them all out below by using the link to all...

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Drill Taps: Are These Self Tapping Drill Bits The Tool You’ve Been Missing? Are These More Useful Than Any Other Drill Bits?

I’m a big fan of a good drill bit, like anyone else who’s having to drill holes. But there are some serious differences in bits, regardless of the price. With all the different coatings,...

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Vice Grip Garage Interior Rehab: Derek and His Wife Jess Restored Their Darts Interior On A BUDGET! Here’s How

Just because the parts are available doesn’t mean that doing an interior restoration on your favorite project is going to be cheap. With lots of options, from “custom” bolt in...

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Watching A BMW E30 Drift Through A Lovely Autumn Scene Is The Perfect Farewell To Warm Autumn Weather

Yes, I know that winter, technically, is five weeks away. But I’m not bothered about that. As I’m writing this, the awesome Indian summer that BangShift Mid-West has experienced this year...

Stuck The Landing: This Monster Chevy Goes For A Jump And Breaks A Few Things!

It’s tall, it’s got presence, it’s got a Duramax that sounds the business, and it looks virtually new. This Chevy Silverado is somebody’s life-long project…or current...

More Behind The Scenes Pit Shots From The Street Car Super Nationals

If you spend all your time at a drag race sitting in the stands, or standing near the starting line, you’ll miss out on all kinds of cool stuff going on. The pits are where tons of the action...

More Action Shots From Day One Of The Street Car Super Nationals In Vegas

We can’t believe that this much action has already gone down at the Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas! Thursday started off with the first round of qualifying for all the categories,...

The Street Car Super Nationals Behind The Scenes

Everyone knows that drag racing is about tire smoke, wheel stands, and going fast right? Well it’s also about preparation, determination, reliability, and horsepower. And there is not better...

Watch This Opel Change Lanes, Climb The Wall, And Almost Flip At SCSN 2016

Sometimes things just go right, even when they appear to be going oh so wrong. Such is the case of this big tire Opel at the SCSN 2016 in Las Vegas. It lined up in the left lane, with a Plymouth...

Buy This Bitchin Oldsmobile Pro Mod And Race At Street Car Super Nationals 2017!

Pro Mod is a crowd favorite because the cars have personality. Sure there are a lot of Camaros and Corvettes, they are a popular hot rod body style, but there are also a ton of other really cool and...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Slacking By Example

It’s been two and a half years since I handed off the keys to my register and the doors. I threw most of the uniform shirts into the closet and forgot about them. One or two of the company...

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NHRDA Diesel Finals Footage: 2.5 and Limited Pro Stock Trucks Dragging The Sled!

What makes a truck pull so great, really? Is it the sled, dragging the tow vehicle down? Is it the volley of exhaust vented like a demonic locomotive the entire run? Is it the one-sided winner, the...

Would You Rather, The Dirt-Cheap Hot Rod Buick Edition! Regal Versus Roadmaster for $2,500!

Buick has always had a real strange relationship with performance. Cars like the Riviera, Gran Sport, GSX, Grand National, and the GNX give Buick performance credit that at times, the company...

Powermaster Brought New Products To SEMA 2016 And We Got The First Look

Can you think of any sound that brings more of a sickening feeling to your gut than the “click” of a dead battery when you go to crank it? Actually, we can think of another…the sick...

The GT4586 – Get A Summary On The Ferrari-Powered Toyota From Ryan Tuerck Himself!

Blazing your own trail is never easy. The results might be worth it, the experience is always worth it, and the lessons learned from the painful sections of the project are priceless, but that only...

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The Mitsubishi GTO – Remember When Mitsubishi Knew How To Make A Wicked Corner-Carver?

Ah, Mitsubishi…where did they go so wrong? In the 1990s they had a great lineup of sports cars if you were looking. If you lived overseas, you got access to the earliest Lancer Evolutions, but...

Would You Rather, Push-It-Off-A-Cliff Edition: Ford Tempo or Chevy Cavalier

Prompted by a discussion I ran across on Facebook that was, thankfully, not political, I decided to pitch this one to the BangShifters. The real name of this one is “Would You Rather, Set It On...