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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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This 1979 Ford F250 Is Large And In Charge On Boggers Which Rules!

Boggers are the finest off-road tires ever produced. Okay, so anyone who has actually owned something with them on knows that you pay a price for all that awesomeness, but they still rule. So it is...

SCTA El Mirage: More LSR Racing Shots From The End Of The Year Run!

(Photos: Zane McNary) If there is one facet of land speed racing that Brian Lohnes is constantly harping on as a bonus, it is the freedom of the rules…you can do pretty much whatever the hell...

This Pro Street 1970 Dodge Coronet Is HEMI And Lenco Equipped! Bitchin Cubed!

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the coolest Coronet we’ve ever had here on BangShift.com. Just look at it, it’s beautiful. And it’s got 528 cubic...

Early Christmas Shopping Ideas: Going For That One Big Gift For The Gearhead? How About A Ready-To-Go 1964 Plymouth Drag Car?

We had to do a double take and make sure that this Plymouth wasn’t already sitting at Jensen Masters’ Short Street Rod Shop, because it would not look out of place. We aren’t going...

Why Don’t More People Race These Things? This Daytona Is Awesome And A Deal!

When Factory Five came out with their Cobras and then Daytona and then the GTM, and their latest the 818, we thought you would see gobs of them racing. And we know that there are a lot of the Cobras...

Gates Auto Salvage Tour: We Look At The Cast-Aside Work Trucks That Rest And Rust In Vermont

As much as we all would hope to find a yard filled with nothing but the desirable parts of automotive history that span between 1930 and the present, the more likely scenario is that between the gems...

Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!

I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...

This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!

Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...

More Customs, Hot Rods, And Trucks From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015

The Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 might be the last to be held at Irwindale Speedway since it’s impending close date is still up in the air. But the mood was not dampened by this...

More Hot Rods, Customs, And Lowriders Photos From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015

We’ve got even more photos from the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 and we figured we should share. If you’ve been looking at all the others that we posted this week then you know...

Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Automotive Archeology From The Woods Of Vermont

Seeing the photos that Lohnes and Fitzgerald took at Gates Auto Salvage keeps bringing up the word “haunting” into my head. It’s not hard to see why: in amongst the thin trees, you...

Here Is The Answer, And Winner, Of Our “Guess What This Ridetech Shockwave Is Bolted To” Contest

ANSWER: A Pulling Tractor, specifically the TS Performance Pro Stock John Deere Pulling Tractor called “Young Buck”. It’s Brad Moss’s rig and it is one bad piece of machinery that...

Outlaw Mud Truck Fun – D.O.T. Legal Tires And A Heavy Right Foot Makes For Some Excellent Video!

Wide open throttle on a full-kill race vehicle isn’t something that is achieved often, and when it is the results are always spectacular. Mud trucks do a good job of converting the raw power of...

Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?

If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...