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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Event Did Not Disappoint! Check Out All The Cool Photos That Mike Brooks Got Us!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) The Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina celebrated it’s 37th anniversary this year and as usual had a sellout crowd. This show sells out every year,...

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Our Final Gallery Of IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT!

Here’s our final gallery of IHRA Outlaw Nitro photos from Galot, but if you missed any of the previous photos we’ve got a link to them below. (Photos by David Whealon) If you live under...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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Watch An Outlaw 10.5 Car Run 4.18 and Stop The Clocks On The Rear Tires!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – One of the most exciting aspects of outlaw racing is the wheelie. Whether it is a Drag Radial car that launches and puts it on the bumper, or a twin turbo outlaw 10.5 car...

Giant Powerstroke Ford Nitrous Explosion On The Starting Line!

So apparently this Ford 6.0 Powerstroke is having some trouble starting behind the water box on the starting line at Salt Lake City. Well some of that may have been due to the nitrous that was being...

You Can Buy This Rare Dutch Sports Car On CraigsList

In the last two decades, the Dutch have made a couple of bids to enter the sports car realm. The first came from Spyker, a firm that built high-performance sports cars and even competed in Formula 1...

BangShift’s Class-By-Class Preview of Hot Rod Drag Week 2016

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is  the most intense form of street-car racing in the world. The competition pits street cars, some of which really push the boundaries of that phrase, to run...

LS Fest Outtake: The Crunched Camaro That Was Still Going To Race

All Adam Prante wanted to do was to come down to Bowling Green and have a good time at the 2016 LS Fest with his late-model fifth-gen Camaro SS. Entered into the Grand Champion set of events, he had...

Rough Start: Don’t Want To Work On Your Project? This 1977 Ford Ranchero Is For You!

Remember your first car and how you couldn’t afford to have it down for anything longer than an weekend at most? Sure, you had dreams of swapping engines and all sorts of stuff, but in reality...

Watch 9-Time Le Mans Winner Tom Kristensen Absolutely Cane a Priceless Ferrari at Goodwood

The Goodwood Road & Racing provides possibly the world’s most visible venue for racing priceless antiquities. While there were so many great moments from last weekend’s racing at the Goodwood...

Ever Wanted Your Own Mobile Shop? This 1984 Flxible Metro Ex-City Bus Could Be Your Jam!

First things first: seeing a Flxible Metro in any condition that isn’t a museum piece is pretty rare in it’s own right. The Metro was a problematic design, especially shortly after...

A Nitro Powered Pencil Sharpener? Now We’ve Seen It All.

We’ve seen nitro powered blenders, snow cone machines, and even food processors, but a pencil sharpener? Yeah, this one is creative, and funny, and was done for no other reason than because...

Drifting Action From Holley’s LS Fest Right Here! Tire Smoke And Carnage Baby

We’re not huge drifting fans here at BangShift.com, but we do have to admit that being sideways and smoking the tires is a good time no matter who you are. And the drifting action at...

Ha Ha, We’re At LS Fest And You Aren’t: Check Out What You Are Missing!

Wow, we just went there. Sorry. It’s hard not to give you a hard time about LS Fest, because it happens every year in September and you should know that by now. Plus, did you see this stick...

On His Own Terms: The Owner Of This 1999 Pontiac Firehawk Is Living The Gearhead Life As It Suits Him

After the black late-model Camaro Z/28 came off of the dyno, the next car up was a silver 1999 Pontiac Firehawk. The owner, a tall, lanky gentleman in surprisingly colorful clothes, shoes and...

Watch The Crazy Swedes In Their Monster Of An Opel Ascona Drag Week Car Pull A Huge Wheelie At Orlando

If there is a hallmark of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2016 that has already kind of showed itself before the beginning of the event, it is the large number of international entries that will be...

Aussie Burnouts Baby! Brasher Nats 2016 Cause Everyone Needs Tire Smoke On Sundays

The Aussie Burnout, or Skid, is world renowned. And Brasher Nats has become one of the premier events to show off your skills if you are an Aussie fond of destroying tires. So whenever we find good...