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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Pro Stock, Pro Stock Bikes, And Factory Stock 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Dirt Track Racer Charged With Assault After Ramming Other Car In The Pits: On Track Contact Leads To Race Rage Incident and Ban From Racing.

Every racer and fan knows that in the heat of competition emotions and adrenaline run high. We’ve all seen it, when a couple of drivers bump and bang and then it continues off track. But...

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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Nitro Pits and Thrash Photos From NHRA Houston 2014 – Sweet, Sweet Nitro Parts!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that nitro burning top fuel engines use the hardest core speed parts we know of inside of them. Believe it or not, the...

Viva Las Vegas 2014 – The Coolest Pre-War Hot Rods At The Show

We’re back with some more cool cars that you have not seen yet from Viva Las Vegas 2014. This time we’re concentrating on pre-war hot rods. Some of them are street roddy and some of them...

The Fantastic Fords Continue – More Coverage From the 2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re continuing with more coverage by Joe Grippo from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania. Beaver Springs is a perfect...

UPDATE Breaking News: Garlits Attempting To Break 200 MPH Barrier On Batteries RIGHT NOW!

Update 3:30pm Eastern Time: On the third run with the dragster the power shut off unexpectedly at half track. The crew says that early numbers show that it would have easily been a 200 mph run, but a...

VIDEO: Gerry Marshall fends off a swarm of 2.0-liter cars in a Camaro at the 1971 Crystal Palace race

A few weeks ago, Lohnes posted a great in-car video of Gerry Marshall muscling a Chevy 302-powered Vauxhall Firenza around a British road course. This two-part, 16 minute video has him dicing it out...

Flips, Flops, Saves, And More. Formula Off Road In Sweden Takes Crazy To A New Level

We love Formula Off Road Racing because it’s awesome. Take some jillion foot tall pile of gravel, send high horsepower, light weight, 4 wheel drives with paddle tires on all 4 wheels and tell...

The Thrash Is On To Complete This Steel, 1967, Big Block, Four Speed Barracuda For Drag Week!

Arizona’s Robert Reynolds was one of the many people who answered the call we put out for Drag Week project builds the other day and like Gary Putnam’s car we featured yesterday, Reynolds...

BangShifter Creates Drag Week “Scholarship” And Awards It To First Time Competitor – This Is Super Cool

In one of the coolest things to come out of the BangShift forums since their inception in 2008, multi-time Drag Week racer Kerby Suhre decided that since he wasn’t going to be able to make the...

Win A Burnout Contest And Win An Atomic EFI – Kill Tires For EFI Because MSD Gets It!

We love it when companies understand their customers and MSD certainly does. We got a tip from our man Chuy over at the MSD bunker in El Paso and he told us that the company has teamed up with the...

This Music Video Has Awesome Drag Cars In It And Is Actually Pretty Neat

We have to thank ace BangShift photo contributor Benoit Pigeon for tipping us off to this cool music video for the song Summer by the artist Calvin Harris. While we’re not much for the tune...

Doorslammer Gallery: Pro Modifieds At The 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals

(Photos By Charles Wickam) – Yesterday I told you how awesome the Pro Modified class was at the 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals and today we’re showing you through the great...

2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs Raceway – Historic, Cool, And Fast Fords Take Over The Strip

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it happened again. Jody Aberts, Doug Bender and Beaver Bob McCardle pulled off another fantastic weekend of Drag Racing and Car Show actioffeaturing...

Craigslist Find: This Fully Built Volvo Race Wagon, Despite Being A Volvo, Is Awesome And Cheap!

There’s a big part of us that thinks something may be fishy with this ad for a totally cool 1995 Volvo 850 wagon that has been modified with upgraded suspension, a full cage, and apparently...

Gallery: Hundreds of Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Cool Pickups Invade Main Street Cruise-In in Cleveland, TN

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – This past weekend was a huge weekend for car shows, cruise ins and racing, and Tommy Lee Byrd double dipped by attending the Mitty vintage road race event...