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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Saturday!

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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NHRA Pro Mod Series Qualifying Sessions LIVE from the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte. Ultimate Door Car Action!

NHRA 4-Wide Drag Racing is going on in Charlotte this weekend and that means Pro Mods! 4-Wide Pro Mod drag racing might be some of the coolest, and the action is always amazing at this race. We know...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Friday!

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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

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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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Sometimes Even When It’s Good It’s Bad – Hugs And Drugs At The Store

Not everything at work is a negative. Most of my co-workers are great to be around, I make decent enough money for what I do, and I honestly enjoy helping people with the problems that they bring me....

IHRA SAN ANTONIO NITRO JAM – RACE COVERAGE FROM A WILD WEEKEND IN TEXAS

(Words and Photos by Brad Klaassen) – As many of you hard core Bangshifters already know, the IHRA revamped their racing program for the 2014 racing season with their new Nitro Jam Pro Touring...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: The Answer To Yesterday’s Quiz!

So yesterday I showed you nothing but a short block and a couple of pistons and asked you to identify the engine, tell me who built it, and then tell me what it was installed in, and what the...

This Kind Of Ratty Looking 1973 Dart Is A Mopar Sleeper Supreme – RacingJunk Find

We like the fact that the photos of this car were taken at night and they aren’t all that super fantastic because it totally adds to the mystique of what would be a super bitchin’ sleeper...

Snake Bit: Dodge Viper Production Halted – Vipers Will Not Race At Le Mans In 2014

We think that the current generation of Dodge Viper is the best looking and most formidable performing model in the history of the Viper name. From the 1992 cars that captured the public’s...

Watch A Jeep Driver Make A Split Second Save To Avoid Complete Disaster – Wild!

Yesterday, we showed you some pretty nutty video of a modified RZR XP 900 scaling a near vertical cliff face at an off-road park in Disney, Oklahoma. Today we’re back at the same wall but in a...

NutJob: Why So Much Hatred For Mixing Parts Between Brands And The LS Engine In General?

It’s safe to say that yesterday’s April Fools Day item about Ford adding junkyard LS engines as an option in the 2015 Mustang was a “success” in that it went about as well as...

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Craigslist Find: This Is The Nicest Camaro Body VW Kit Car You’ll Ever See – Freak Show Supreme

Color us absolutely floored. Back in December of 2012, we ran a blog item featuring a bizarre and totally sad sack looking abandoned VW kit car that had a Camaro-style body on it. The proportions...

Test Your Gearhead Knowlegde: Tell Us What Engine This Is, What It Was In, And If You Are Really Good The Compression!

It has been a long while since we last had you Test Your Gearhead Knowledge but since we made a recent visit to Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth and ran into the big hunk of iron below we thought...

We Tour Trick Flow Specialties To See How Their Products Are Made – Gearhead Nirvana

(Photos by Nutting/Fitzgerald) – This was a visit that was long overdue, Trick Flow’s Manager Mike Downs almost choked me out at SEMA when I told him that I had driven virtually right...

This Video Review Of The 1970 and 1971 Trans Am Racing Seasons Is Excellent – In-Car Cameras, Sideways Action, Screaming Small Blocks, Etc

1970 and 1971 represent what many people believe to be the best years in the history of the Trans-Am series and when you watch this awesome video recap of those two years below you’ll most...

The Loop Video : Does The eMax Challenger Carry John Hotchkis To Victory Or Wreckage?

Yesterday we shared with you the press release talking about the loop and that John Hotchkis Jr. of Hotchkis Sport Suspension was going to perform the first vertical loop in the history of muscle...

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This German Built Hot Rod Is Road Legal Because Of Fenders N’ More!

The other day we got a note from Wes Nielsen at Fenders N’ More. Included in that email were the photos of the hot rod we’re going to show you below. It is a good looking car with its...

We Need Your Votes! Help Us Win The 2014 Muscle Car Match Ups Final Four!

As you may or may now know, BangShift is currently locked in a life and death struggle on the Summit Racing OnAllCylinders blog as part of the cool “Muscle Car Match Ups” competition....