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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Car Show Gallery: The Tuscon Classic Car Show, BBQ & Blues Festival – Fun In The Arizona Sun!

(Photos by Joe Haber) — How about an awesome trifecta of stuff! BBQ, Blues, and old cars sound like the gearhead holy trinity to us and BangShifter Joe Haber was there to partake in all of it...

DeJoria, Brown, and Johnson Win NHRA Wallys In Phoenix. Plus We Have All The Sportsman Stuff!

(Words by Darr Hawthorne. Photos by Bob Snyder, Jeff Burghardt, and Alexis DeJoria Racing) Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory Sunday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals...

Photos: Brian’s Top 20 Favorite Cars From The 2013 March Meet

(Being that we are one week and one day away from the beginning of the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway, we’re going to start getting you pumped up by running some of last...

Gallery: Monster Trucks Invade And Occupy The Shop At MSD Performance!

(Photos by MSD Performance) – When your job is to maintain 10,000+ trucks that routinely jump 20-feet in the air and land on cars, buses, RVs, and concrete floors fixing stuff is pretty much a...

RacingJunk Find: This 1948 Willys Pro Street CJ2A Jeep Comes With A Twist…Literally

This 1948 Willys CJ2A Jeep done in the pro street style looks like a life sized version of a muscled up die-cast car. The complete lack of a wheelbase, the huge meats crammed together under the back...

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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