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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Cadillac Introduces The ATS-V.R Race Car – 600hp Twin Turbo Motor FIA Legal For GT3 And 30 Different Series Around World (W/VIDEO)

Well this looks about 20 different shades of awesome. Cadillac has debuted their brand new ATS-V.R road racing car that will compete on a global level in the FIA’s GT3 category. In addition to...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Next Car That Should Be Made Into A Pro Mod? Great Examples Inside!

You know the names ID Motorsports Design and Stu Wotypka from their appearances on the pages of BangShift before. Stu has worked with some of the most well know chassis builders and body builders in...

2014 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational – One Last Look At Some Great Action Photos Of The Event And Full Results

All the competitors have gone home or have moved onto other events. Most of the cars are parked for the year, and some of the competition for next year have just come out of shops across the country...

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...