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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Question Of The Day: What Would It Take For You To Drive This 1952 Plymouth Trar?

You know the jingle: “What would you do-oo-oo, for a Klondike bar?” Some of you wouldn’t lift a finger. Then there are people like me, who did horrible, unspeakable things for one....

BangShift Project Files: It’s Rough Now, But This 1975 Pontiac Grand Am Is In Good Hands…He Told Us So!

I flaunt my strange vehicle addiction regularly, but there is one forum member on BangShift that has even more questionable tastes in cars than I do, and I know this for a solid fact, because...

eBay Find: A Street-Legal, Race-Ready AMC-powered 1980 Spirit!

Hard to believe, looking at the AMC Spirit, that it’s roots trace back to the 1970 AMC Hornet. One can’t be blamed for AMC reusing the platform…the company had survived on a...

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Check Out The Wild Ride That Brandon Pesz Goes On In Keith Haney’s Nitrous Camaro – Nearly Flips It Before Riding The Barrier!

Depending on how you view this, Brandon Pesz is either one hell of a driver or had enough luck on his side to take care of a good-sized city, because the run he made in Keith Haney’s...

More American Iron Abroad! Check Out Some Of The Rides At The ACCS Power Vårmarknad Meet!

Mårten Carlsson is one busy man. Not only are we still sorting through all of his photos from the Bilsport Elmia Motor Show, but we just got another batch of pictures, this time from the ACCS meet...

Remember When Guy Fieri Was A Pitchman For Flowmaster? Neither Did We! (Video)

I’ve got to thank Jeff Lee and give props to the website Eater.com who recently ran the videos you will see below of Guy Fieri “before he was famous” serving as the talent in some...

This Guy Knows His Machine! Watch As He Pulls Off Stunts With His Yamaha MT-07 Like It’s A Bicycle!

Do you remember mastering the J-turn on your bicycle by locking up the rear wheel and swinging the tail around? Remember how awesome you thought you were for being able to master the perfect...

Didn’t Expect This: Watch As Takeshi Kimura Takes His Ferrari F40 Camping In The Snow!

Ferrari’s F40 is an automotive legend. At the risk of having a couple of men in suits show up at my house, I view the F40 as the Italian take on the formula that the Dodge Charger Daytona...

Stupid Gearhead Stories: What’s The Biggest “What The!?” Moment You’ve Had With Your Car?

Like many of you I’m sure, part of my morning routine is getting up, having a cup of coffee, and hitting the Interwebs to find out what’s going on in the world. One of my stops on the...

More Good News For Drag Racers: Sebring International Raceway To Host Season Series On Its Long Straight

There have been lots of “drag races” down the straight at Sebring over the years but they’ve mostly been short contests where two guys are trying to get to the next corner ahead of...

eBay Find: This 1985 Buick Somerset Trans-Am/IMSA GTO Car Is Flippin’ Awesome!

Want to know what the most BangShift approved road racing car for sale in America is RIGHT NOW? You’re looking at it, baby. This 1985 Buick Somerset has all kinds of racing history from when it...

The RideTech Report: New Products, A Survey, Videos, And A KILLER New Tool To Check Out!

…annnnnd we’re back! The latest issue of the RideTech report has been published and this one is a must read. Why? Beyond the cool customer car profiles, the shop information, the new...

The Greatest Yugo Ever? Someone Converted This One Into A Little Panzer Tank!

(By Eric Rood) – The magical land of CraigsList delivers today, as it so often does, with a heavy dose of WTF sprinkled and a liberal seasoning of “Just…why?” The notorious econobox...

Event Gallery: More Car Show Goodness From The Bilsport Elmia Custom Motor Show!

(Photos: Mårten Carlsson) We actually saw an ad on Craigslist the other day for a clapped-out mid-1970s Camaro that had a rather bitter line in it: “You won’t find many of these left,...