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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 7 Regional From The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 7! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Drag Racing Photos: Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway!

Here’s the 4th, and final, gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check them out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: From Chassis to Rolling! 4 Link, Axles, Crossmembers & More!

Shannon and Jess are moving right along on the FJ40 and things just keep getting better. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might not...

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Semi-Final and Final Round Racing From The Postponed PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway!

Our friend NC Promoder was on hand for testing at the PDRA East Coast Nationals yesterday and caught all the semi final and final round racing action from the postponed Carolina Nationals...

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Drag Racing Photos: More Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway. Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 3rd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check them out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: Check Out The PDRA Testing and Carolina Nationals Eliminations from Darana Motorsports Park in Benson NC

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Darana Motorsports Park 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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Our Last Blast Of Cool Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, And Stuff From The 2014 Big 3 Swap Meet

Here’s our final gallery from the 2014 Big 3 Swap Meet which was held last weekend in the parking lot of Qualcomm stadium in San Diego, California. This gallery, like the others has a pretty...

More Photos From The Whittier Area Car Show In Southern California, Charity Never Looked So Good

(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) Whittier is a small part of the greater Los Angeles/Orange County area, but in that part of town there’s a particularly awesome collection of hot rods, cruisers...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Top 10 List To Help Me, Help You…..And Advice On Personal Hygiene

It’s Spring! For at least a couple of days until the temperatures sink faster than the Titanic, but for now, the warm weather has got people buying car wash stuff at a record pace and has every...

Electric Swamp Rat 37 Nearing Race Trim – Garlits And Team Shooting For First 200mph Electric Quarter Mile

We’re not usually hot on electric cars as they just aren’t really our jam around here, but one that Don Garlits is involved with, required the use of Bad Hadman to build its chassis, and...

It Lives! The Crazed 12-Rotor Engine Makes Initial Runs On Dyno – We Have Video, Sheets, And Power Numbers!

It was late January when we told you about Tyson Gavin’s wild 12 rotor engine that has the potential on paper to make multiple thousands of horsepower when fully sorted out. At that time, Tyson...

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REVEALED: Chrysler New Yorker Electronic Voice Alert Guy Works for Speak and Spell!

In a brilliant investigative piece the likes of which we have not seen since Woodward and Bernstein, YouTuber Spats Bear has determined that the guy who was the voice behind the Chrysler New Yorker...

BangShift Exclusive: Liam Garritty Unveills “Saturday Forever” A Cartoon Tribute To Vintage Drag Racing

Anyone who’s hung out here at BangShift.com knows the name Liam Garritty, because Liam puts together some super cool galleries of photos for us every year at the March Meet and California Hot...

Watch A Hennessey Venom GT Go 270mph On A NASA Runway – In Car Video With Telemetry

Chances are that you already know what a Hennessey Venom GT is but if you don’t, here’s a rough sketch of what the $1-million dollar super car is all about. It starts life as a Lotus and...

For Sale: 80-Acre, 8,000 Car Idaho Junkyard – Show Up With $3,000,000 And You Own It

I am glad that my kids were not sitting in close proximity when I opened the email that informed me of the sale of L&L Classic Auto in Wendell, Idaho. Once I saw the ariel photos of nearly 100...

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Gallery: Early Season Drag Action From Thunder Valley Raceway Park In Noble, Oklahoma!

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – So, what’s a drag starved gear head to do when it’s still winter time? Well, as most of you know Oklahoma weather has had multiple personality issues...

Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules

The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....

Gallery: Freaks, Trucks, and Hot Rods At The 2013 Big Three Swap Meet – San Diego, California

We’re continuing our photo coverage of the 2014 Big Three Swap Meet with today’s gallery that centers around cool trucks, some nifty hot rods, and some real weirdo stuff. Every once in a...

On This Date In 1893 The Diesel Engine Was Patented In Germany – Here’s Our Video Tribute To Compression Ignition Engines!

Rudolph Diesel would be so flipping happy at the way things are turning out for his basic engine design today, mainly because he would be wealthy beyond anyone’s imagination so it is too bad...

QuickTrick Is Giving Away One Of Their Awesome QuickSlide Caster/Camber Alignment Tools! Enter Here Before Feb 28!

If you are on Facebook and fail to heed the simple instructions below, simply put you are dumb. Like goalie on the dart team, window licking dumb. Why? Because for about 15 seconds of effort you can...