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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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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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This 2015 Camaro Z/28 Has 255 Miles And A Pricetag Less Than $60,000 – Time To Buy?

When the 5th generation Camaro Z/28 was released, a couple of things happened. Firstly we realized just how serious  the engineers at GM were when developing this car because it is a true bad ass...

Watch as Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud Try Out Their New Ford Focus RS RX Race Cars

There is nothing like the first time behind the wheel of a new car, and for Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud, it had to be extra special, because it represented the...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Buy A Vauxhall, Buy A Lincoln, And Please Keep Buying Mustangs!

What a week it’s been here at BangShift! Between tons of live-feed, racing, car shows and more, we almost managed to forget about digging through the growing inbox of news clips and spats that...

Watch The Spring Fling Million Bracket Race REPLAY From Las Vegas Right Here!

The Spring Fling Million Bracket Race is the West Coast’s biggest and baddest bracket race. Period. And when you consider the size of the purse on each of the 4 days of racing, the giveaways,...

This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!

(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...

Wandering Colossus: This Former Big Foot Truck Went From Major Movie Stardom To The Corner Of A Florida Midway- How?

In today’s world few people likely remember the story of legendary boxer Joe Louis. The man had an incredible career that literally made him an American hero at its peak. Like many boxers he...

AutoMeter Direct Fit Mounting Solutions Line Expands With New Part Numbers

AutoMeter is an instrument company but they are also a solutions company. Offering parts and pieces that now range from battery chargers to tire gauges, to the instruments you want for your classic,...

eBay Find: This Huge Remote Control Model Of The Ill-Fated Japanese Battleship Yamato Could Be Yours

In the realm of odd things to want to own, a huge remote control version of what is likely the most ill-fated battleship in the history of humankind is pretty close to the top. Like a remote control...

This Mazda RX-3 Is Angry! This Turbocharged 13B-powered Terror Is Good For 7.61@175 MPH At The Top End!

Until I saw this car, I never thought of a Mazda anything as an angry car. For that matter, what makes a car “angry”? That part is simple: An aggressive look, a pissed-off noisemaker...

The WTF? Files: It’s A Mercury Cougar Chopper, Powered By A Chevy Mill!

The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird...

Lonestar Round Up 2016: Photos From The Massive Texas Hot Rod Happening

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It has become one of the premier hot rod destination shows in the world and year after year it just keeps getting better. We’re talking about the massive...

Incredible! Watch The Plymouth Air Radial Truck Make Its First Drive – Radial Airplane Engine Power!

The world of hot rodding never ceases to amaze us. New ideas emerge and are executed when even the most hopeful among us think that the human brain is mined out. Take for example this stunning...

She Left To Buy A Two-Seater Sporty Car, But Now This Ten-Second 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Little More Than That!

Owning a SubLime colored Mopar is one of the easiest ways to make sure people stop and look at your car, even at a Mopar show. At ChallengerFest, there were a quite a few bright green pieces rolling...

Muscle Mass: Big Horsepower And A Big Sticker Price – Does The 2016 Yukon Denali Deliver?

I’m always interested to see how the neighbors or my friends happen to react to a given test car or truck showing up at the BangShift eastern world offices. We have had some interesting stuff...