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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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The New Bird: This 1982 Review Shows Us Just How Far A Leap Forward The 3rd Gen Pontiac Firebird Was

When Ford rolled out their all-new 1979 Mustang, GM was kind of caught flat-footed. Their second-generation F-bodies had been soldiering on for the better part of a decade at that point and in public...

Keep Yer Head On: ARP® Head Std Kit For Highly Boosted 6.7L Powerstroke V8

We don’t know much around here but we do know that boost is awesome, that diesel engines are stupidly strong these days, and that ARP makes the best fasteners in the automotive world. The...

Hero Stuff: Watch A Young Didier Pironi Attack The US Grand Prix In A Tyrrell F1 Car 40+ Years Ago

This video from the 1978 US Grand Prix is awesome. You are going to ride on the Tyrrell Formula One car being driven by Frenchman Didier Pironi. Pironi was very early on in his F1 career at this...

This LEGO Big Big Block Chevy Has A Working Four Speed Transmission On It!

LEGO kits are some of the most popular toys around the world and their sales go through the roof around Christmas time. Our kids got them and we’re guessing many of you had kiddos out there...

The Charger, Part 9: Shoving A Tremec TKX Where It Truly Belongs

Every six months, it seems, it’s time to provide an update to you, the BangShift reader, on the status of my ’76 Dodge Charger. Let’s be honest: in the entire duration of my...

Dirthead Dave Chappelle’s Slammed Nissan Hardbody Gets Fuel, Brakes, And Steering Finished! And Then It Moves Out Of The Shop!

A huge portion of the fans of Dirthead Dave, and the Dirthead Shed YouTube Channel, know him as the off-road guy who builds cool stuff and loves being outside climbing over rocks and playing in the...

Pete & Jakes Open House Video – Some Awesome Hot Rods Were Celebrating 50 Years of Legendary Hot Rods in Peculiar Missouri

John at NotStockPhoto is back at it with another great event video. This time it is from the 50th Anniversary Show at Pete and Jakes, a company that has been a part of the hot rodding and racing...

New Mods for Blasphemi, Finnegan’s Hemi-Powered 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air! Lots Of Little Things To Make This Thing Even Better Than Ever!

Blasphemi, Finnegan’s awesome blown Hemi powered 1955 Chevrolet is a special machine and we dig it. So does Finnegan, and he’s been giving this thing a lot of love over the past two years...

LET’S TALK TECH, WITH RICHARD HOLDENER: ICE WATER INTERCOOLERS, DO THEY WORK? HOW WELL? AIR INLET TEMPS MATTER!

Richard Holdener does several live tech talks every week, and the subjects range from the simple to the complex, but usually revolve around some testing videos that have recently come out or will...

Ceramic Coatings Are All The Rage, So Who Really Makes The Best One? Testing $8 Ceramic Coating vs $120 And More!

In the past few years, ceramic coatings have become all the rage. Getting your car ceramic coated will give you results like an awesome wax, but with a lot more durability. So you have to do it far...

You Think You Might Want To Be In The Automotive Business? Career Advice: How The IronTrap Garage Parts Business Started

You wouldn’t believe the number of people that ask me how to get into a career in the automotive aftermarket, automotive media, etc. And then I also get asked how I got into the whole thing,...

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 1 At Cecil County Featuring $50,000 Pro Mod Invitational – Monday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

Is This 280zx Beyond Saving? When Is A Car Worth Saving? Kevin Tetz Walks Us Around A Potential Project To Figure Out If It Is Worthy

I’ve bought two cars in my life that made me wonder if I should have. The first turned out epic, and as soon as I started mocking it up during the build, any doubts left my mind. It would turn...

Check Out This Perkins Diesel Powered, 6×6 1970s Ford F600 Army Truck – Killer Video

Fun fact to know and share. The first “big truck” I fell in love with, rode around in, and generally adored was a late 1970s Ford F-750 that my grandfather was running as a delivery...