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Chip Foose And Seth Hammond Win At Barona’s RPM Drags In An Epic Vintage Hot Rod

Chip Foose needs no introduction, but if you don’t recognize Seth Hammond’s name then just look up Bonneville Records and you’ll find him. Seth is a hard core racer, hot rodder, and...

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Bill Armstrong, Mr. Bangshift Billy Himself, Is Sharing All His Drag & Drive Trailer Secrets! Check Out How He Does It!

Drag and Drive trailers are one of the more talked about aspects of drag and drive races, and for good reason. Being organized and having the tools and parts you need can be the difference between...

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More 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

Here’s gallery #2, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park...

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Proper 1970s F1 Racing in Monaco! The Full 1973-1976 Formula One Race At The 2026 Monaco Historic Race.

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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You’re Not Gonna Believe What Happened To Finnegan While Working On The Caddy! Check Out The Progress, And Setbacks…

Finnegan’s Cadillac is arguably one of the most talked about drag and drive projects in recent years and while he’s been working on building his Lexus LC500 into a genuinely fast drag and...

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Exploring Some of China’s Car Culture in Their Tech Capital, Shenzhen, w/ Sung Kang

Larry Chen is back at it, but this time his Asian adventures have led him to China to check out the car culture in Shenzhen. I used to travel to Shenzen in my previous career and it is the tech...

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1970s Car Accidents Were BRUTAL – Scenes From A Very Bad Day On A Rural Vermont Highway Circa 1975

The University of Vermont runs an amazing photo archive called the Vermont Landscape Change Program. It’s chock full of photos from every era, a lot of which have contemporary photos showing...

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Gasser Gallery: Wheels Up, Tire Smoking Coolness From Tulsa Raceway Park

(Photots by Brad Klaassen) – The other day we showed you some cool old school style straight axle drag cars and BangShift photo contributor Brad Klaassen knew that he had something to add to...

eBay Find: A Fantastic 1970 Mk1 Escort 1600GT – The Want Level Is High With This One

We all have a list, however short, of cars that we love and tell no one about because we’d probably be mocked by our pals. I have two cars on that list and this is one of them. I will some day...

MORE: eBay Find

The Tale Of Two Mid-$8,000 Craigslist Finds: The Fake Lamborghini Murcielago Based On A Dodge Stratus (W/Video!)

We know what you’re thinking. You’re like, “Sure I’ve had a few beers this morning before work, but I thought that said a guy made a fake Lamborghini Murcielago out of a Dodge...

The Tale Of Two Mid-$8,000 Craigslist Finds: Part One – The Cool Ramp Truck

It isn’t often that we come across two “share” worthy Craigslist finds in a single day that are priced within just a couple of hundred dollars of one another. Channing Ivey has the...

Bitchin’ Gallery: 1980s USHRA Photos! Big Foot 1, Art Arfons, The Orange Blossom Special, More!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Growing up as dragstrip rats there was only three things my brother and I liked about the winter…going sledding at the golf course, the ISCA Custom Car...

Look Ma, No Blower! This 1970 Aussie Valiant Burnout Machine Has A 358ci Dodge NASCAR Engine For Power – Screaming Hell!

Daniel Blok’s 1970 Valiant is one of the neatest cars we have seen in an Aussie “power skid” video because there’s no huffer, four guys in the car, and he completes a two...

Watch DEI’s Titanium Turbo Shield Withstand 3,000-Degree Direct Heat – The Boss Of Heat Management

Design Engineering’s line of heat management products is vast. From their spark plug boot protectors through header wrap, and into their turbo shields, these guys know how to keep heat where it...

FREE Registration For Upcoming OPTIMA Search For The Ultimate Street Car Even At Laguna Seca!

That’s right folks, it pays to be a BangShifter! We are proud to announce that if 30 of you register for the upcoming Optima Batteries Search for the Ultimate Street Car event at Laguna Seca...

Action Video: Matt Farah Of /DRIVE Tears Down Highway 341 In A 500 HP Syclone!

Have you ever seen a vehicle online, on TV, or in person and immediately thought, “This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen…Man, why didn’t I think of building it?” Admittedly I...

Study Shows 88% Of Adults Would Be Worried About Riding In A Driverless Car. Would You?

When Google started showing off their “Driverless” car back in 2012, and then Michigan, California, Florida, and Nevada made them legal in 2013, these driverless or autonomous vehicles...

eBay Find: A 1966 Ford Total Performance Drag Racing Press Kit That Any Ford Lover Would Kill To Own

Hey, this is pretty neat! We got tipped off to the sale of a 1966 Ford Total Performance drag racing press kit on eBay by a reader. The hilarious thing is that the kit is being sold by our very oen...

This In Car Video Of A Dirt Modified Race Has Insane Action And Ends With The Most Gentle Roll Over In Racing History

This video is great for multiple reasons. The first is that we get a great view of the action INSIDE a dirt modified, which is something totally nuts in an of itself. Along with the action we get a...

Gallery: Straight Axle Drag Car Coolness All Up In Your Business

(Photos from the BangShift archive) – With today’s modern suspension technology, we’re seeing performances out of cars with tiny tires that really boggle the mind. From shocks made...