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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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Dusty Rose Funny Car Fire Photo Sequence. Could Be Worst We’ve Ever Seen!

This could be the worst fire we’ve ever seen in a Funny Car, and it happened during the very first run Dusty Rose ever had in competition. Talk about bad luck. But thankfully he is alive and...

The Nostalgia Nitro Nationals From Tulsa Raceway Park Were Hot, Hot, Hot!

Tulsa Raceway Park’s Nostalgia Nitro Nationals are always one of the crowd favorite events each year, and 2016 was no different. Bad Brad Klassen was on hand shooting photos, enjoying the sun,...

Formula E Announces Plan to Race in Brooklyn Against Manhattan Backdrop

The FIA’s all-electric racing series, F0rmula E, has become an interesting anomaly in the motorsports world. While the cars aren’t particularly fast and the noise of the electric motors...

A Family Affair: This 1966 Ford Fairlane 500XL Is A Well-Built Beauty With That One Sin Under The Hood…

Every car build needs a spark. Something has to speak to the buyer of a forlorn car left in the weeds, and for Brian Allen, that spark came in the form of a car from his father’s past, a 1966...

The Cage Gage Could Be One Of The Coolest Tubing Fabrication Tools We’ve Seen

We’ve been showing you welding, notching, and bending videos recently to inspire you to build your own roll bar or roll cage for your project. We’ll be bringing you more tech on doing...

Watch The TCI Red Dawn Camaro On The Dyno At Westech Performance Group

With a Lingenfelter LS7 under the hood, TCI’s Red Dawn Camaro is one bad ass car. And to make sure the tune was dead on, and ready to roll out for some testing, the guys at TCI cruised it over...

The Ultimate Bolt On Strut Front Subframe For Camaro And Nova Drag Racers

I’m pretty lucky because I hear about and see, and sometimes even test, new products well before the normal public gets to hear about them or see the at an event. And since I’m a geek...

Top 11: Best Craigslist Road Course Trackday Cars You Can Get For The Money!

(Lead photo courtesy of Car and Driver. Seriously…road racing a Suburban? AWESOME!) If you haven’t driven at a track day, especially on a purpose-built road course like Pacific Raceways...

This Boosted C10 Pickup Is Hot Rod Sleeper Greatness And Runs 11’s

BigKleib was at LSFest shooting video, and got some good shots of this kick ass 1st Gen Chevrolet C10 pickup truck running down the drag strip. We aren’t sure whether it is a ’64,...

This Class Alfa Romeo 155 DTM Car Revs to 12,000 RPM and Is a Proper Italian Work of Art

While the cars that run in the modern German DTM series are pretty cool, we’re not sure if they’ll ever be as cool as the Mercedes 190 vs. BMW E30 days of the 1980s. Even less likely, however, is...

Here Is A Tool You Should Buy This Week! Clecos Can Be A Savior

I hate it when I’m at a friend’s shop and see some cool tool and think “Man I need one of those!”, especially when it’s something that isn’t expensive, and then I...

Twin Chinese Turbos, No Tune, Big Block, 4-Door Chevelle: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

My grandpa had a saying. “Crap will do for brains if you’re lucky!” And sometimes that goes a long way in the car world. We’re not saying it’s the case in the particular...

This Old Body Style Ford Shortbed PowerStroke Is A Riot!

Hot rodders have been taking short bed pickups and putting big one ton heavy duty engines in them for decades. But doing so with a Diesel is a little more problematic because they are so heavy...

Can You Hear Me Now? Aussie Lamborghini Owner Goes After The Police After Getting A Noise-Violation Ticket And Wins!

“I fought the law, and the law won.” That’s the lyric, right? That no matter what you do, in the end the law is the final word and any attempt to bypass that is going to be a futile...