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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sunday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Sleeperdude and Family Take An Off Road Christmas Tree Journey in an 80 Year Old Jeep That Doesn’t Drive Yet

When I think back to my earliest Christmas memories, one of the things I do remember was going to Christmas Tree farms to choose and cut our own tree. It was fun, and made getting a tree, bringing it...

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240z Suspension & Brake Upgrades, Plus Cool Tractor Pulling Innovations On Stacey David’s Gearz

Stacey is back at it in this episode of Gearz, working on his 240Z project which is getting some suspension and brake upgrades to keep this project moving. These cars have a ton of high performance...

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350 Mile ROAD TRIP in the 1957 Chevy Belair – Derek Traded SIGHT UNSEEN After He Finished The Rebuild!

Here we go again with another one of Derek’s Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras. This time he’s taking the Texas 1957 Chevrolet on a road trip for a trade. He has no clue how good the...

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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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No LIVE Streaming Video From NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion

It is with a heavy heart that we announce today that BangShift.com will NOT be LIVE from the California Hot Rod Reunion this month. It pains me because the CHRR was our very first LIVE Broadcast and...

More Lucas Off-Road Expo Photos: Desert And Short Course Trucks Galore!

Yesterday we showed you a batch of 100 photos from this past weekend’s Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo in Pomona and told you we had plenty more where that came from! We weren’t lying, and while...

This Saturday At Lancaster Dragway Is Pro Mod-A-Palooza – We’ll Be There! Pro Mods, Small Tire Cars, Brackets – HUGE SHOW

Coming this Saturday to historic Lancaster Dragway is a late fall spectacular so freakin’ good I’m going to be there myself! That’s right, it is Pro Mod-A-Palooza at Lancaster...

Event Gallery: Show Cars And The Midway From NMRA 2015 All Ford World Finals At Beech Bend Raceway

It was apparent from the start of Saturday morning that Mother Nature was not going to play nice for the NMRA. The All-Ford World Finals, held at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have...

Gravelrama 2015 Flat Drags Action: More Dirt Chucking Fun From Cleves, Ohio

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – My son Taylor and I have determined that the flat drags is now nearly in a position to take over as our favorite at Gravelrama.  The big hill still gets...

Station Wagons and ONLY Station Wagons From The 2015 NSRA Nationals – Tons Of Cool Photos here

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Lets start off with the long roof family trucksters.  For many years the sigma of ‘family car’ plagued these spacious rides leaving many to become...

Question Of The Day: How Did You Picture Your First Project Car Turning Out?

We spend hours, days…hell, some of us, years…plotting out the perfect build for our projects. I’ll fully admit every one I’ve ever had a concept for: the 2001 Regal GS was...

Maple Grove Glory Days: More Car Show Photos Featuring The Coolest Iron At Da Grove

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our own Joe Grippo is like the mayor of Maple Grove. Lots of people there know the guy and by the time I was done announcing at the Keystone Nationals last weekend I...

Aiming Nose High At The 2015 World Power Wheelstand Challenge At Byron Dragway!

The World Power Wheelstand Challenge isn’t a race. It’s simply a game of one-upmanship: who can hang the hoops higher, who can do the longer burnout, who can make it all the way through...

Petrolicious Goes On An Off-Road Excursion With A Toyota FJ40 – Hear The Story Of One Family’s Journey With This Off-Roading Legend!

Considering that the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser has it’s roots in the original Toyota-Jeep BJ series vehicles from 1951, it’s not surprising in the least that the FJs have such a strong...

This Pro Street 1962 M37 Dodge Power Wagon Has A Blown Hemi And A Look All Its Own

I have to say that I actually admire guys who have the vision and the means to actually dream up a freaky build and then pull it off. For instance, the guy who funded the construction of this wild...

Fred Williams, Fresh From Watching Mad Max, A Ragged Out 1973 Road Runner, And The New Cummins 5.0L V8 Diesel…Yeah, This Will End Well!

Have you ever just looked at a picture and came to the conclusion that a ton of bad ideas were going to meld into one really good idea? Yeah, we’ve kind of got that going on right now. Fred...

The Rudezon Lives! Here’s The Scoop On The 2-Stroke V8 Powered Volvo From Sweden

It was about a year ago that we first told you about the Rudezon, a classic Volvo Amazon that was being fitted with a 2-stroke V8 engine with the intention of using it as a drag race car. The company...

Glory Days Nostalgia Drags At Maple Grove: The Coolest Cars And Trucks From The Show Area

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Last week we showed you some of the nostalgia drag racing action that took place at the Maple Grove Raceway Glory Days Nostalgia Drags. This week we’re back with...