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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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We Take A Look Back At The Subaru That Got The Performance Ball Rolling, The Impreza 22B, With MotorWeek

Until I turned on Gran Turismo for the first time, Subarus were dinky little sedans and wagons that made a farting noise wherever they went. Sure, the SVX was around, but that was a freak of nature....

Top 11: Picks From The Mecum Chicago Auction – Can We Predict A Decent Deal In The Catalog?

  11. 1968 Oldsmobile 98 Convertible   It’s the size of Rhode Island, comfortable as a barcalounger, drinks like an angry Scotsman, and looks like New England old money. This...

Scrapple, Your Weekly Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, We Have The Trumpghini, Karma And A Dancing Musk!

Temperatures are finally starting to cool off, leaves are starting to show the first tinges of color, the harvest is coming in, the geese are heading out, and every last broken bone is starting to...

Ten Cars, One Quarter Mile: Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race 5!

In what has turned into tradition for the guys over at Motor Trend, the field of new cars battling it out for the title in their annual Best Driver’s Car series are hauled off to an airport...

This Is Not The Correct Way To Load Your Big Rig On The Trailer – Near Disaster Caught On Tape

We’ve all had issues loading a car onto the trailer at one time or another, right? I once drove a car onto and nearly straight off the front of an open trailer after the owner told me that the...

Death Wish? We Have The Craziest Looking Thing We Have Ever Seen – V8 Snowmobile

We know a bunch of guys from Wisconsin and those guys are some of the hardest core hot rodder, partiers, and lovers of life that we have ever run into. Why? Because for lots of the year Wisconsin is...

eBay Find: 1942 Autocar U-7144-T Rig – This Thing Comes With The Killer Trailer Too

When we talk about old Army trucks normally visions of Power Wagons and other iconic stuff like that will pop into our heads. Today we’re stepping up the brawn program by showing you an awesome...

NSRA Nationals Coverage: Trucks, Trucks, And MORE TRUCKS In Louisville!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Whether its just used for cruising or hauling, all these trucks carry smiles where ever they go.  We snapped photos of everything from huge car haulers...

Gravelrama 2015 Coverage: Action Photos From The Big Eliminator Hill!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  The event that most people look forward to at Gravelrama 2015 has a cool name – the Big Eliminator Hill.  It’s a massive pile of un-compacted pea...

This Turbo-Four Eagle Talon Is A Monster That Can Hold It’s Own Against Turbo V8s

I had all sorts of Mitsubishi-related jokes lined up. “Danger to Manifold”. “Dude, I almost had you!” “See crank walk. Walk, crank, walk.” Fine…we all saw...

Cruisin’ For A Cure 2015: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Huge SoCal Show

Sunny skies, green trees, and cars galore. That was the case at the 2015 Orange County Cruisin’ For A Cure recently and we have been showing you some of the coolest cars and trucks from the...

Official Footage Of The Upcoming 2017 Ford Raptor Playing In The Sand – Will This One Be As Good As The Last One?

My first introduction to the Ford Raptor was pretty memorable: I got in, shook hands with one of Ford’s official drivers, strapped in, and enjoyed a quick trip that involved running over a ton...

Ever Wonder How A Corn Combine Works? This Video Will Show You How!

As I write this from the newest BangShift Mid-West location, I’m watching the owners of the field behind my property line harvest the acres of corn. It’s the first absolute sign of fall...

New Video Build Series: In The Shop With Emily Transforms A 1964 Impala SS – Part 1

With all of the cool internet video that is popping up for gear heads we thought we would share the start (and the ensuing episodes) of a build series that will see the resurrection, modification,...