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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! 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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We’ve Got Street Week Sweden Photos! Check Out Our First Gallery of Photos From Mantorp Park Right Here! More To Come!

We’ve reached the midway point of Street Week Sweden 2026, and are about to start Race Day 4 at Tierp Arena in Sweden within hours of you reading this and checking out the photos. It has been a...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2026 LIVESTREAM: Racing Action, Interviews, Historic Race Cars of All Kinds And More From One Of The Coolest Motorsport Events On Earth

Goodwood Festival of Speed is an automotive event of epic proportions, held on an insanely beautiful British estate, and not only does it feature amazing cars, performances, and more, but it is also...

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Martin Lundqvist Racing Goes After Another Street Week Sweden Victory! Here’s What It Took To Even Get To Day 1 At Mantorp Park

We’ve been sharing Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication videos here on BANGshift for the past few months as they are putting together a new drag and drive machine for Sweden’s Street Week...

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Dylan McCool Bought an UNKNOWN Drag Car at Auction… It Had ROD KNOCK! Can They Race It?

You never know what you are going to get when buying cars at auction, and that’s because you may or may not even be able to start them and hear them run. It totally depends on the auction, and...

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BangShift Exclusive: Mopar Currently Working On Dodge Dart Funny Car Body – Will Be Released In Little More Than A Month

We have learned from a trusted source that Mopar is in the finishing and final testing phases of an all new funny car body for their NHRA teams. This body will be a “Dodge Dart” based...

Watch Ryan Anderson Make The Greatest “Save” In Monster Truck History – Truck Goes From On Roof To On Wheels!

We love people who simply cannot admit defeat. Ryan Anderson, one of Dennis Anderson’s sons is that type of guy. Having grown up as the spawn of the man who is now the world’s most famous...

Unobtanium: We Get Up Close And Personal With An Ultra-Rare Studebaker R4 V8

The other day we decided to invade the privacy of our pals Dana Hard and Jon Wall at Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts to see what they were up to. It is always fun to drop by a...

Back Road Gold Online Viewing Party Tonight 9:30 Eastern! Click Here To Join The Fun!

WE WILL BE HAVING A LIVE ONLINE WATCHING PARTY RIGHT HERE FOR THE PREMIER OF THE SHOW. IT WILL BE AT 6:30 PACIFIC, 9:30 EASTERN RIGHT HERE WITH LIVE CHAT. TUNE IN TO THE SHOW AND GET OUT YOUR LAPTOP...

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Video: The Duke Axial Piston Engine Is Weird And Cool

The ECTA’s Joe Timney sent me this video yesterday and I watched in a couple of times just to take it all in. The video is about the Duke engine which is an “axial” piston engine....

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We Salute Malcolm Durham, Drag Racing’s First Black Superstar And #48 On NHRA’s Top 50 Driver’s List

February is Black History Month, which got us thinking about men and women of color who have had an impact in racing. The first name that came to our minds is a legend in the sport of drag racing,...

The Bad Swede: Meet Oldvo A 1958 Volvo Duett PV445 – Dare To Be Different!

(Words Roger Davis – Photos: Rourke and Chiluk) – You know who hot rods a 1958 Volvo Duett PV445? The same guy who builds a street legal, nine second Geo Metro powered by a worked up...

Fenders N More Joins The BangShift Family Of Sponsors And Brings Fun Stuff With Them

We are very proud to announce that Fenders N More, the leading manufacturer of American made fenders, trailer parts, and wheel tubs, has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. When Wes and the guys...

Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night 2014 – Awesome Cars, Vintage Engines, BS Approved!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – So my brother and I road tripped up to the Saratoga Springs, New York area last weekend to party with the Rolling Bones crew at their annual Garage Night...

Action Video: Think Drifting Is Lame? Let’s See If this Video From A 2013 Gatebil Event Will Change Your Mind

When I was growing up, I was taught that there were three subjects never to bring up at social events, as discussing them would inevitable result in an argument with neither side having changed their...

A 200 MPH Electric Tether Car?! You Betcha… This Thing Is The Speed Demon Of Tether Cars

When we saw the video of the Vector Electric Tether Car running 202 MPH, we just about fell over. If you have never seen a tether car run up close and personal, we can tell you that it is WAY cooler...

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...

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