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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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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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Thornhill Drag Strip Coverage: Straight Axle Cars Abound At The Historic Kentucky Strip – Check These Out

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The fact my son’s birthday was the 30th played heavily into ensuring we made the trip up to Thornhill to enjoy some racing and hang out with car folk...

Watch Tom Meents Stick The Landing On A Monster Truck Double Backflip – This Is Crazy!

It was a busy week for monster truck racing legend Tom Meents. A couple of days ago we showed you the crazy video of Meents attempting a front flip in his monster truck (it supposedly did not count...

2015 LA Roadsters Show: Dozens Of Cool Classic Station Wagons In SoCal

While the roadsters are the main draw and the reason for the show to have been founded more than a half century ago, there are more than 1,000 “other” cars that show up at the event every...

Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion: Photo Coverage From Beech Bend Raceway Continues

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While it wasn’t the greatest weather weekend in the history of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, the faithful showed up to brave the elements and...

Stolen Car: Have You Seen This 1959 Edsel Villager Station Wagon?

Thieves make us sick to our stomach, regardless of what they took, but when they go after what we pour hard work and countless hours into, it’s just the worst thing that could possibly happen....

King Of Italy Ultra4 Footage From Our Friends At Busted Knuckle Films – All The Fun Of Rally With The Punishment Of True Off-Road!

Ultra4 is a category of racing vehicle that requires only one thing, four wheel drive, and has zero restrictions after that. And it had better be prepared for anything, from high-speed fire-road...

Joey Severance’s Wild Save At The NHRA Dallas Event Needs To Be Seen To Be Believed! (Video)

This here is some absolutely wild video that ends happily, against all odds. The dude you’ll see go on one of the craziest non-crashing passes in top alcohol dragster history is Joey Severance....

RideTech Father’s Day Contest! ENTER TODAY And Your Dad Can Win Some Sweet Shocks! HURRY!

Today is Father’s Day and that means it is time to honor your pop! Hopefully you are spending some time with him and maybe you even got him a gift. There’s one last thing you can do and...

This Crazy Triple Engine 1985 Custom Panther Is One LONG Cruiser – Would You Roll In It?

This is a 1985 Custom Panther that was obviously designed and conceived by a crazy person who enjoyed cartoons because how else in the world would someone dream this up? The thing literally looks...

HISTORY! Alan O’Brien’s Twin-Turbo AMC Dragster Makes 5-second Pass – Quickest and Fastest AMC Ever

There was some history made at the NHRAV Thunder Valley Nationals when Alan O’Brien charged down the quarter mile in his awesome AMC powered dragster and stopped the clocks in 5.997 seconds at...

Near Disaster Video: Another Calamity From The Legal Street Race In Oklahoma – This Time A Repair Truck Causes Chaos

(By Jason Mazzotta) – We have already seen plenty of action from the crazy legal street race on Route 66 in El Reno, Oklahoma, including the near flattening of a crewman when two cars came...

2015 LA Roadsters Show: The Historic Event Keeps Getting Better – Here’s Roadster Heaven!

2015 marks the 51st running of the LA Roadtsers show and 36 of those years the show has been held at the Pomona Fairplex where so many other great shows are held throughout the years. The event is...

Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Cars, Trucks, And Coolness Galore In Bowling Green

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While the weather was not cooperative during the weekend in Bowling Green, it did not take the wind out of anyone’s sales or dampen spirits at all during...

Unhinged: McTaggart’s Top 16 From The 2015 Holley Hot Rod Reunion

The Holley Hot Rod Reunion is effectively my anniversary mark for BangShift.com, and is also one of the largest events that I have attended several times over. I love the mix of cars that come out to...