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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Gallery: 50 Photos of Station Wagons

The station wagon has an interesting place in the modern world of hot rodding. As you’ll see in this gallery they can be built to burn up the drag strip, warp corners, scrape the ground, and...

Killer Video: A BangShift.com Approved Trail Recovery

Anyone who reads the four-wheel-drive mags or scans YouTube for videos of guys rock crawling, mud bogging, or snow wheeling, will absolutely love this piece of video. Hell, any gearhead worth his or...

BangShift Question of the Day: What Motor Would Santa Run in His Sleigh?

Santa is gearing up to make his yearly lap of the Earth in just about two weeks. We all know that the power is provided by a pack of flying reindeer, but let’s play a game of “what...

National Drag Racing Association Launches As Doorslammer Drag Racing Series – Assumes All Dates And Tracks Of 2014 ADRL Schedule

News broke yesterday at the 2013 PRI show that a new drag racing series called the “National Drag Racing Association” will have a run of events in 2014 for Pro Mods and mountain motor pro...

Gallery: 31 Photos of Studebakers!

(Photos from the BS Archive) – We’re getting back on the horse with our random specific galleries of different cars and trucks. Today, it is Studebaker getting the spotlight. The long...

Watch This T-Bucket Run 6’s In The 8th: Driver Wearing Shorts And A T-Shirt. Brilliant!

By now all of you know how much I hate T-Buckets, which has been the subject of many “spirited” discussions between Brian and I. Well, here is a video of some dude in his 1927 T-Bucket...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Are Baja Race Cars Cooler Than Baja Race Trucks?

We love Baja race stuff around here, and are planning on some cool prerunner upgrades to the $200 Hauler, which has had us looking at a bunch of prerunners and Baja race trucks for inspiration....

Watch An Idiot Filming A Moron Wreck His Car – Stupidity Hurts

Sure, that title is pretty harsh but let’s be honest. If you are driving down the highway and see a truck purposely driving with two wheels up on the center divider barriers and you decide to...

This Pro Street 1961 409 Impala Could Be Yours, If The Price Is Right.

Every once in a while we find something on Craigslist that surprises us. When doing a search for Pro Street stuff on Craigslist we found this clean old school 1961 Impala Pro Streeter and then we got...

Top 11 Current automotive trends that have jumped the shark

The video posted yesterday of a stretched tire exploding on a dyno got me thinking about all of the fads that develop in automotive culture. Whether or not we want to admit it, there’s a fair...

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Extreme Downhill Barbie Jeep Racing Is Highly Entertaining To Watch But Painful To Do (Video)

Have you always wondered what would happen if grown men decided to race plastic Barbie Jeeps down a steep incline in the woods? We’ve spent hours on end pondering the outcome of such a...

Dragway 42 Is Hosting The Legendary Hangover Nationals On New Year’s Day – A Drag Race With A Great Twist! BE THERE!

For 15 years Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio has been hosting the “Hangover Nationals” on New Year’s day. This race goes off whether there is rain, sun, or snow! Nothing stops the...

These Images From A 1930s Era Boston Buick Dealership Are Breathtaking –

1932 wasn’t exactly a banner year in the USA. While it was the year that the iconic ’32 Ford came out, it was also the year when the Great Depression reached its bleak crescendo (along...

Failure Video: Why Running “Stretched” Tires On Your Car Is A Recipe For Disaster

Of the current popular automotive trends among “the kids”, weirdo camber and stretched tires are two that we don’t understand and outside of looking weird have some pretty bad...