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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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CHEAP 8.1L CAM TEST-HOW TO ADD 30 HP AND 30 LB-FT FOR TOWING. 8.1L DART CARB INTAKE VS EFI-WHO WINS?

I love me some 8.1 horsepower, and in the video below our friend Richard Holdener is back at Westech Performance doing some cam testing on his dyno mule 8.1. He also does some testing with a carb vs...

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Slicks: The Sticky History of the World’s Fastest Racing Tires – There’s Way More To Them Than You Might Think

For some reason, people often underestimate the technology that goes into drag racing parts. I think it is because they think that going in a straight line is so simple. Of course these are the same...

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Tool Tech: Bodywork Tools 101 – What Hammers And Dollies Do You Really Need In Your Toolbox? And How To Dress Them For Smooth Metal.

You can buy a Hammer and Dolly kit for as little as $25, so there is no reason that you shouldn’t get a set. Plus, even a cheap set can be tuned up to be better than stock, without spending any...

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American Car Culture in Japan is AMAZING! You’d Never Guess That The Japanese Would Be This Ate Up With Old American Cars!

In the mid to late 1990’s there were a bunch of custom mini trucks and fullsizes that got bought at truck shows all over and then sent overseas to Japan. I had a friend who got an offer on his...

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The Definition Of No Prep – No Tree, No Sweeping, No Worries -THIS Is How You Reopen A Strip

Winston County Drag Strip in Alabama is the latest in a string of tracks that have either been revamped, refreshed, or reopened across the country. The little eighth mile track is certainly not...

Why Dare To Be Different Matters: This 1964 Studebaker Daytona Would Be A History Lesson To Most Show-Goers!

Most 1964 model year cars are well known, well documented, and most gearheads could rattle off the stats to you. The 1964 Ford Mustang, the year Ford stunned the world with what a simple rebody of...

Is This Actually The First Latham Axial Flow Supercharger Ever Made For Sale On eBay?

When it comes to intoxicating and amazing ads in olds 1960s muscle car and drag racing magazines two of them stand out. The first is of course Turbonique and the second is from the Latham Axial Flow...

Watch The Awesome 8Ncredible Land Speed Tractor Make A Dyno Pull – Shooting For 100mph This Weekend At Ohio Mile!

It is kind of weird to get excited about a land speed racing vehicle that is capable of running 100mph flat out, but that’s the case when we’re talking about a tractor. Jack...

The RideTech Power Tour Report – Check Out Their Experience So Far!

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour is something that began as a humble little event and has grown into a literal monster with thousands and thousands of participants, the famed “Long Haul...

Eagle Field Runway Drags – Hot Rods, Gassers, Dragsters And Throwback Flag Starts!

(Photos by Jamie Shores-Fraijo) – There’s a growing bunch of hot rodders and drag racers that are flying well under the radar of the sanctioning bodies and throngs of spectators who attend...

Live Your Classic Le Mans Dreams In This 1969 Corvette Road Racer – Awesome Car!

While we can all fantasize about racing around Le Mans and swapping positions with some of the greatest racing drivers in history, the fact is that we ain’t gonna be there and likely neither...

Safety Car driver pulls off ridiculous drift during Le Mans rain delay

Rain interrupted the second and final day of qualifying this year, turning the four hours of Thursday running into a battle against the elements. During the night session, a deluge descended on the...

Friday’s Excuse To Go Home And Drink: Meet Olli, The Breadbox Of The Driverless Future.

Whether we like it or not, driverless technology is coming. In a few aspects, this has some positive traits: the disabled and elderly can be mobile without having to rely on degraded abilities to get...

This 1988 Hurst/Olds Came From The Collection Of Jack Watson And May Be The Most Rare Of Them All

It may seem completely insane but the 1988 Hurst/Olds may be the rarest of them all. Certainly not the most valuable of the examples that were produced for the better part of 40 years in one form or...

Semi Tractors, Dump Trucks, And School Buses: Running Every Possible Diesel-Powered Rig At Truck Mania!

Now this is a day at the drags for diesels we could really get behind. No offense meant to the 3/4 and one-ton pickup crowd, but when we see a GMC Astro 95 boiling it’s hides off like a blown...

Call the accountant: This Porsche Cup pile-up from Australia surely racked up a hefty auto body bill

Winton Motor Raceway in Australia has a reputation as one of the country’s more challenging and technical road courses with a number of “You screwed up there? Get out the checkbook.” corners....

Classic YouTube: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s WFO Drifting At Road America In 2010

Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny...

This pint-sized streamliner coaxed 150 mph from a miniscule 50cc engine

Lou Fischer’s Bonneville Stories series on YouTube has a lot of good stuff in it, but we’re partial to the tiny terror that John Buddenbaum and Eric Noyes built to tackle the salt several years...