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Check Out The Action From The Frontside NO-PREP Shootout at Darana Dragway, Milan MI – May 16th 2026

We were at Darana Dragway Milan last fall for the IHRA $125,000 to win Pro Mod Shootout and man is that track fun. I hadn’t been to Milan in years, and they have definitely added some nice...

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Vintage IMSA! Watch The 1989 IMSA Nissan Grand Prix of Miami Right Here! The Original Miami Street Circuit.

IMSA has had some of the coolest race cars on the planet over their decades of racing, with GTP and GTP Lights being some of their coolest. In the late 1980’s, when many believe GTP was at...

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Free Road Racing Livestream From England: British Automobile Racing Club Action LIVE From Thruxton

It’s time for more road racing in England! This weekend there are drag races at Santa Pod and then a big road racing weekend at Thruxton. The weather is good, the racers and fans are out in droves,...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom FJ40 Tailgate Mount + Jeep Beach Prep Begins With Shannon and Jess Campbell

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper and fender flares complete, it’s time to wrap up the rear with the tailgate mounts. But these aren’t just any flares, as they...

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704 Outlaws Video: Outlaw Small Tire Racing Returns To North Carolina’s Mooresville Dragway

We’ve got 704 Outlaws video below, thanks to our friends at Spoold Media. If you aren’t familiar with the 704 Outlaws classes, trust us when we say they are fun. They’ve got simple rules, small...

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REPLAY – Free Livestreaming Road Racing: The 2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course – FULL WEEKEND Coverage LIVE!

Last weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the SCCA ran two days of Hoosier Super Tour races and we’ve got the livestream replay right here! These are some fun SCCA regional races and feature some...

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Wreckage Sequence! Watch A Mud Racer Lost The Handle On His Truck At High Speed With Disastrous Results

(PHOTOS BY CHARLES WICKAM) – Recently, Charles Wickam was shooting mud drag racing action at the Brazoria County Mud Drags in Texas. We’ll have all his awesome race coverage next week...

This 1978 Volvo Bertone 262C Is An All Steel Bodied Freak That We’d Rock (After Making Some Changes) – eBay Find!

Do you ever wonder what happens to some of the crazy cars that are seen at the SEMA show? Lots of them go back to the people that built them, get sold, and live the lives of pretty normal hot rods....

Photo Highlight Reel: BangShift Contributors Mike Brooks And Jose Ferrer Crushing It With Gasoline Images Inc. – Great Photos Here

(Words and photos by Mike Books/Jose Ferrer) – (Editor’s note: BangShift contributors Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer spend lots of their summer at events and tracks around the eastern USA....

York US30 Reunion Muscle Car Madness – More Historic Drag Iron And Cool Hot Rods

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re back with more great Joe Grippo photos from the York US30 Muscle Car Madness show that occurred last July. Why are we so late with the photos? Well, my...

Ship Fail: The Cargo Ship Canadian Miner Was Supposed To Be Scrapped For Profit -Project Is $24-Million In The Hole – What A Mess! Photos and The Story Here

(By GREG ROURKE) – Most of us who regularly read BangShift don’t live in gated communities. As such, we all have someone in the neighborhood with junk in the back yard. Or maybe it’s you....

NHRA Announces 2015 Heritage Series Schedule

The National Hot Rod Association finally released their primarily west coast-based Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series headlined by the nitro Nostalgia Top Fuel and Nostalgia Funny Car categories.  2014...

The Hellcats Are Shipping! The Hellcats Are Shipping! Chrysler Made A Cool Video To Commemorate the Moment

Hellcats are officially in route to dealers all across North America as Chrysler announced yesterday that the first run of the cars had been released and sent out into the field. This means that we...

Cruise Coverage: The First Ever Costumes and Cruise In For A Cure – Great Cars And A Great Time

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Let’s face it, Halloween isn’t typically a holiday that invites car guys to get out and play. Memorial Day weekend, sure….Fourth of July,...

Go or No Go? A Fifth-Gen Trans Am And A Phantom GTO Judge – You Make The Call!

(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY GREG ROURKE) – Body kits…love ’em or hate ’em, they are a big part of the automotive aftermarket. Some are dead nuts on, some you have to wonder how many...

A Fresh LT1, T56 6-Speed, Nitrous, And Clean Paint All For $2500? Could This Camaro Be The Best Deal On Craigslist?

Earlier we asked if the $750 LTD was the best thing you could buy for $750 on Craigslist, and then we ran across this Camaro! Sure it’s more than 4 times the price of the LTD, and it might not...

2014 York US30 Reunion Muscle Car Madness Show: Our First Blast Of Photos From One Of The Summer’s Big Ones

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Each July, one of the great weekends of drag racing historical celebration takes place in Pennsylvania with the York US30 Drag Strip Reunion and Muscle Car Madness...

Video: Arlen Ness, The Sound. Three Generations of Bike Builders, But The Old Man Is Still The Leader

If you don’t know the name Arlen Ness, then you have either lived under a rock for the last several decades or never paid attention to anything on two wheels. As one of the most iconic bike...

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Check Out This Great Old Tractor Collection We Found At The Alameda County Fairgrounds In Pleasanton, California

So there I was, minding my own business looking at hot rods and muscle cars at the Goodguys show when I turned around and nearly swallowed my tongue. As it turns out the fairgrounds that the show was...

Project FatLane Is Done, Delivered, And Preparing To Terrorize Drag Strips With Six Second Fury – Here’s A Look At The Final Product

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – For a couple of years we have been showing you the incremental progress of a car we dubbed FatLane, a Ford Fairlane being built to run in some Outlaw small tire...