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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Photo Tour: The (Literally) Awesome Barber Motorsports Park Museum

(By Eric Rood) – Bangshift recently brought you an extraordinarily bizarre gallery from the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Barber Motorsports Park and if you’ve been to Barber, you know what a...

eBay Find: The One-Year-Only 1975 Plymouth Road Runner – Cop Car Durability And Rarity That Makes Mopar Freaks Weak

Let’s get the complaints out of the way now: Yes, what you are looking at is the 1975-only Plymouth Road Runner. Yes, it is still a B-body, with the underpinnings that debuted in 1971 and the...

Dallas Autorama 2016 Coverage: Our First Look At The Big Show From The Lone Star State

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Our man Charles Wickam has been on the scene for the Texas Autorama shows for the last few years and we always look forward to see what his lens captures both in...

Cool Video: Watch The Diesel Powered Ram Mini-Wheat Truck Hook And Launch At Lights Out 7

It wasn’t all big blocks and turbos at Lights Out 7. There were plenty of small block cars, a couple of six bangers, and even a rotary machine as well. The real knockout for us was the fact...

This 1960 Plymouth Fury Is Only A Replica Of Richard Petty’s Racer, But Do You Really Care?

That color blue is synonymous with NASCAR royalty. “Petty Blue”, a hurried combination of blue and white that was mixed up by Richard Petty and his brother Maurice to paint a 1959...

Down Under Mopar Muscle: A 9-Second Valiant VG Making Runs At Sydney Dragway!

If you look at the car and see mostly 1968 Dodge Dart, you’re just about right…the Valiant VG was the last U.S. designed Valiant to appear in Australia, and was replaced with the 1971...

Regular Car Reviews Checks Out A 1976 Chevrolet Chevette To See If There Was Any Redeeming Quality For The Lowly Little Hatchback

“Well, it certainly beats walking.” You know that statement. You might have been told that line when you looked at your parents’ idea of a good first car…a Nissan Stanza in a...

Jay Leno Meets One Of The Biggest Stars From The 2015 SEMA Show, SpeedKore Performance’s “Tantrum” 1970 Dodge Charger!

In an event like the SEMA show, there are cars that grab your attention and do not let go, regardless of what you see. This year’s event left me with a short list of cars that were highlights,...

When Snow Falls On A Racetrack, The Answer Is A Nissan GT-R And A Fearless Snowboarder!

So the weather outside is hateful, dumping snow deep enough to cause the meteorologists to issue warnings and the weather reporters to start naming the storm that is rolling through while playing up...

eBay Find: The Monster That Porsche Built To Dominate The Indy 500 But Never Ran Is For Sale!

(By Eric Rood) – With the 100th edition of the Indy 500 looming, the owners of the never-raced Porsche-engined Indy 500 project have opted to put it back on the auction block. In 1979,...

NASCAR Unveils New Behavioral Rules For All Series – Clearer Definitions For Fights, Intentional Crashes, And More!

(Images: NASCAR.com) NASCAR can claim that the rules recently revealed aren’t a reaction to the November 2015 incident between Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway all they...

2016 Calgary World Of Wheels Coverage: BangShift Approved Iron From The Great White North

(Photos by Ashley Howard) – It was a beautiful weekend for a car show in Calgary, Canada just a few days back when the BMO center was filled with some of the finest iron that the country of...

Watch The Quickest NHRA Legal Pro Mod Pass Ever – Will It Stand For Long? Manzo Power!

This coming weekend we’re going to be LIVE streaming the Real Pro Mod Association Winter Warm Up from Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida. The NHRA’s best and baddest pro mods...

Last Look Back: The 2016 NHRA Winternationals In Fantastic Photography

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – This weekend the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello drag racing tour moves to its second race of the year in Phoenix, Arizona. Through these awesome images from Jeff...