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The Last of our Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our last 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 to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: PDRA Testing For This Weekend’s Maryland International Raceway Event! Live Testing Action.

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

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Robin Shutes Onboard Video Pikes Peak 2026. 2nd Overall, 1st in Super Unlimited, and Sets the All Time Rear Wheel Drive Record!

If you are like me you are going to watch this video and think how much fun it seems it would be to be driving, and also that this dude could have been going even faster. Yeah, that’s not a...

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They Built a BANNED F1 Car From the 70’s! Well Kinda, And It’s Awesome! Who Wants To Build One Of These?

I know I’m not alone in saying that the Tyrrell P34 is one of the coolest looking F1 cars ever produced, not only because the lines are good on it, but also because it’s a freak show with...

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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Power Tour 2014 Coverage: More Great Photos From BangShifters Out On The Great Gearhead Road Trip

(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – Yesterday we dropped the first load of photos on you from Jose Ferrer’s adventure on the 2014 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour. We’re back with more photos...

Chris Alston’s New Professional Grade Bolt On Drag Race Strut Clip For 67-69 Camaro And 68-72 Nova – For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have To Kick Everyone’s Ass All The Time

144lbs….not the weight of Chad’s beard hair, not the weight of my massive head, the weight of the new Professional Grade Bolt On Drag Race Strut Clip that fits 1967-1969 Camaros and...

NASCAR Toyota/Save Mart 350 – Action Photo Coverage From A Wheels Up, Fender Banging Weekend In Sonoma

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – Mike and Jeff Burghardt have submitted some awesome drag racing and sprint car photos to us here at BangShift but this is the first time we have seen the sport of...

Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods In Atlanta – Wild Cars, Wild Weather, And Great Times

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – My last visit at Atlanta dragway was back in 1989 for some heads up Top Sportsman racing. Not too surprisingly, this new visit took me for the same kind...

Power Tour 2014 Coverage – A BangShifter’s Eye View Of The Cool, The Odd, And The Impressive On The Trip

(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – The 2014 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour has been described by most who were on it as the biggest automotive gathering that they ever attended. Whether it was one day or...

The 1939 Bantam Super Four Pickup Is A Little Rig We Never Knew Existed – This One Is For Sale

Outside of a precious few of you we’re guessing that a very limited number of BangShifters had any idea that there was such a thing as a 1939 Bantam Super Four pickup, right? When I first saw...

Big Finish! Watch The Amazing Briggs And Stratton Inline Four Come To Life – Last Set Of Videos

I almost feel bad doing this, you know? I mean Chad was the one bringing you all of these cool videos featuring a family build that saw four separate Briggs and Stratton one lunger engines mated...

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The Oldest Known Peterbilt Truck In Existence Has Been Restored To Showroom Perfection – 1939 Model 260 Is Awesome

One of the reasons I love old trucks is because the vast majority of them were worked until their tongues were hanging out or they were so absurdly obsolete that they had no value at all and were...

Watch Two Stock Car Racers In A Blind Rage Turn Bowman Gray Stadium Into A Two Man Demo Derby Ring During A Race!

We often find ourselves saying stuff like, “this is the craziest thing you will see today” or “you really won’t believe this,” and the majority of the time we’re...

Video: Sleeper Perfection Is A Crusty Barn Fresh 1966 Nova Wagon Wrapped Around A Grand National Drivetrain

Prepare yourself to fall in love with the car featured below. This 1966 Nova station wagon was apparently located in a barn and as best we can tell by the exterior, that sounds accurate. Leaving the...

Flaming Wreckage Video: A Relatively Low Speed Drag Racing Crash Results In A Melted Mustang! (Driver OK)

Lots of racers out there use front mounted fuel cells in their cars. The small cells can hold a few gallons of fuel, eliminate the weight of a tank in the rear and they also allow for better fuel...

Day At The Drags: Somernites Cruise To London Speedway

I spent this Saturday out in Somerset, Kentucky attending the Somernites Cruise weekend. I’m really liking the layout, and that they change up what the Saturday morning event is going to be....

Richard Petty Brings 1967 Plymouth Stock Car To Goodwood To Make Beautiful Noise With

Richard Petty brought out his 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend.  Out of all of the cars in the Petty Museum to bring to the track, King Richard picked the...

Rough Start: The Two-For-One Australian Special!

So, here’s what happened with today’s Rough Start: I made a crack in the report on the Mad Max vehicles about searching the Aussie Craigslist for a Valiant ute like the one in the picture for the...