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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – Time Trial Tuesday

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication Is Building A Bad Ass 1969 Camaro Drag and Drive Car In Sweden! Watch This!

I love new drag and drive builds, and because I’m going to Sweden this year for Street Week I am really excited that this new drag and drive build is being built at Auto Cut in Stockholm by...

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Dyno Testing Dual Plane Intake Manifolds: Made in the USA vs Cheap Import Knockoffs – How Do They Compare?

We’re all about made in the USA parts when they make sense, but I’m very well known for saying that crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from. The point being that you should buy...

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Is This Thing An ABOMINATION or GREATNESS? This Is A Small Block Chevy Powered Ford F100! Installing a HUGE Cam and Engine Refresh With Derek.

I know that some of you are screaming already, but the reality is that it’s not like you can’t replace the Chevy with a Ford in this F100 if you buy it and want to “save” it...

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British Auto Racing Club Action From Cadwell Park Means Some Cool British Machines Racing Wheel To Wheel and Door to Door!

The British Auto Racing Club is in full swing for the 2026 racing season as weather in the UK is getting nice. They put on races all over the UK and feature a ton of variety when it comes to race...

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Goodwood Racing Video: Here Are The 11 Wildest Moments From The 83rd Goodwood Members’ Meeting 2026 | Part 1

We’ve got more from the Goodwood Member’s Meet and this is the really exciting stuff. There were some pretty wild moments at this year’s race and we love that they are always...

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The Black Knight Transformer Is A Helicopter AND A Truck – This Video Of It Driving And Flying Is Stunning

Call it a transformer, call it a flying cargo van, call it whatever you want but the Black Knight Transformer built by Advanced Tactics is one of the neatest things we have seen in action for some...

25 years ago today, a guy with a Cessna and an AK-47 held the city of Boston hostage

In 2014, Boston celebrated a grim anniversary on Patriot’s Day, at the running of the Boston Marathon. Twenty-five years ago tonight, the city experienced another terrorist attack, this time...

This Ratty Looking, Diesel Powered 1947 Chevy Truck Is Fugly, Functional, And Flippin’ Fun (Video)

As I have mentioned a couple of times this week, I’ve been hanging out in Denver with 10 of the toughest street legal diesel trucks in North America and hosting the action as they have been put...

Holley Introduces New Line Of Mighty Mite Electric Fuel Pumps – Perfect For Your 300-400hp Carb’d Ride

Lots of guys want to run an electric fuel pump to feed their mild 300-400hp engine but don’t want to get into the hassle of running a regulator and adding a bunch of plumbing to their engine...

Keels and Wheels 2014 – Our Parting Collection Of Photos From Texas’s Neatest Gearhead Show

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last gallery from the 2014 Texas edition of the Keels and Wheels Concours show and we’ve saved the most BangShifty stuff for this gallery! In here...

Frriday BOOM: A Massive Nitrous Explosion With Bonus Aftermath Footage Of The ‘Sploded Intake Manifold

Normally with nitrous explosion videos, there’s no real idea of what happens after the big BOOM. That’s not the case with this video, shot at North Carolina’s Outer Banks Raceway....

This Tank Tracked 1978 Ford Fairmont Is Way Cooler Than Any LS Swapped Fairmont We Have Ever Seen

As you well know, the Ford Fairmont has become hot stuff for the small tire drag racing crowd to use as a platform to build race cars off of. The Fox body sedans are cheap, light, and no one really...

Kool –Aid & Cool Cars: Chump Car Race Report From Motorsports Park Hastings, Nebraska

(Words and Photos by Charlene Felton-Haney) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com), made their debut at Motorsports Park Hastings located in Hastings, NE just 157 miles...

1980s Video Greatness: The Story Of The Heavy Metal Monster Van – Evolution Of The Coolest Ford Van Ever

One of the neatest things about 1980s monster trucks is that most of the original machines started out as street trucks at some point in their life and eventually morphed into what were the first...

Cool Drag Action From The Pro Street Racing Association Event At Thunder Valley Raceway In Oklahoma

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – If it’s the first Saturday from April to October during racing season in Oklahoma, that means that Thunder Valley Raceway Park just outside Noble,...

Gallery: Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Killer Trucks at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals South in Knoxville, TN

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – The first weekend of May is always the time for NSRA to come to Knoxville, Tennessee and host the Street Rod Nationals South. This event has been going...

Watch This BMW Driver Run Out Of Talent And Literally Drive His Car Off A Cliff (He Lives)

Let’s set there scene here. It is dusk, the sun is setting on a warm California evening. We’re literally strapped to the roof of a BMW M3 as the driver weaves and cuts through the canyon...

FireAde Joins With Gray Motorsports Pro Stock Camaro Driver Shane Gray

We get a lot of Press Releases landing into the email In-box, but this rendering of Shane Gray’s sleek Jerry Haas-built Chevy Camaro caught our eye.  The new FireAde Camaro will debut at the...

Book Review: Liam Garritty’s Saturday Forever Drag Racing Photo Book And Bonus March Meet Photos

As a child growing up at Fremont Drag Strip, the romanticism of drag cars of all kinds was huge to my little mind. Thinking back to those days makes you feel like the Funny Cars and Top Fuel...