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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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Mystery: Help Us Find The History Of This Incredible Homebuilt Sports Car/Hot Rod At Gates Salvage (Video)

When BestRide.com’s Craig Fitzgerald and I were romping through Gates Salvage in Hardwick, Vermont looking for cool stuff we found lots but nothing prepared us for what you see above and in the...

Question of the Day: Would You Care If The Automakers United Their Engine Building Divisions Into One Shared Unit?

For quite a large portion of 2015, FCA’s Sergio Marchionne had spent his time trying to court several automotive manufacturers – namely General Motors, who he fawned about a union with so...

The Maine Snow Fighters Is A 1950s Film Full Of Great Cars, Trucks, And Man VS The Elements Footage

So I am on a snow kick, forgive me. This video from the 1950s was made by the state of Maine to promote their highway department and the hard work they put in every winter to keep the roads open and...

Last Minute Christmas Stocking Stuffer! Moroso Pro Series Tire Pressure Gauges

Are you still frantically searching for that perfect holiday gift for yourself or that performance fiend in your neighborhood?  Moroso Performance Products has an answer! When you’re drag racing,...

In-Truck Video: What It Is Like To Race A 900hp Pro-4 Truck On A Mountain In A Blizzard!

We covered the heck out of Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015. From action photos on the mountain at Sunday River, Maine to an awesome tire testing trail ride with the people at BFG, that was one heck of a...

Need To Redecorate The House? How About Decor Made From Repurposed Car Parts!

Picture this: your significant other has been begging you to spruce up the house with some new décor. You’ve gone to countless furniture stores and boutiques, but you can’t come to a mutual...

Watch And Listen To This Whipple Blown 426 Gen III Hemi Stroker Make Over 1,000hp On The Dyno

If we have one piece of advice for late model muscle cars fans that are NOT of the Chrysler variety, when you see a car equipped with an Arrington Performance decal or logo, run the other way and...

Scrapple, The Holiday Roast Edition! Here’s What’s Worth Flame-Broiling For The End Of The Season!

This isn’t a “best of” deal for the festivities…no, no…that would undermine the idea behind Scrapple in the first place: finding the most random and barely-worthy...

Young New Hampshire Man Dead, Maine Man Injured When Tire Explodes – Techs, Please Be Safe Out There

The images you see both above and below depict a heavy duty tire exploding inside an inflation safety cage. The steel bars of that cage are deflecting because of the massive forces involved. Now...

All-Included Racing: The Calder Park Street Drags Event, Where Everything From A Twin-Turbo Shelby Mustang To A Wicked Toyota Starlet Come Out To Play!

Burnout cars, utes, Holdens and Falcons. You would think that encompasses all of Australia’s motoring scene. It does capture a side of it, yes, but only one side. Australia’s location...

NitroArtVideo Released Their “Wild Rides” Of 2015 – Carnage, Great Saves, Legendary Flight

We respect lunatics that hustle like we do during the racing season at Kevin Maurer at NitroArtVideo is one of those guys. This dude is at dozens of racing events a year all across the southern part...

Rough Start: Stretching The Budget A Bit, But Where Else Are You Going To Find A Convertible Ford Crown Victoria?

If we ever stretch past the budget in one of our Rough Start features, it is because we feel that the car is close enough to the spirit of the budget to warrant a look, and that’s where we find...

eBay Find: Is This The First Ford Dump Truck Ever Equipped With A Hydraulic Bed? 1929 Ford Model AA

This dusty old 1929 Ford Model AA truck looks like lots of other old trucks that have been dragged out of bars and dark corners over the years but there’s a massive difference with this one....

Call To Action: Does Anyone Know Whose Camaro and Trailer This Is?

Thieves suck, period. This year we’ve heard lots about someone’s car being stolen, or someone’s shop being broken into, and honestly it turns our stomach. We know how much time,...