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California Man Reunited with Stolen 1969 Camaro Bought Brand New By His Vietnam Veteran Father!

We hear about car thefts all the time, and have been victims ourselves, so when we saw this story on the national news this morning we knew we had to share it. In 1969, after returning home from the...

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

Here’s the 2nd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check the out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Southeast Gassers Association 2026: First Drag Race of The Year from Shadyside Dragway

Here’s a livestream replay from the Southeast Gassers Association’s First Race of 2026 at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina. If you like traditional nose high gassers that still row the gears,...

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Check Out Our Gallery From Day Of The Drags 2013 – Nostalgia Perfection!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Every year about this time we get sore with Charles Wickam. Why? Mainly because he is at Little River Dragway in Texas for the Kontinentals Day of the Drags and we...

Is This The World’s Smallest Electronically Fuel Injected Engine? 100% Scratch Built By Hand And MegaSquirt Brains! (Video)

This video is heading around the internet like wildfire and for good reason. It features a 100% scratch built 45cc V8 engine that is electronically fuel injected. If that isn’t awesome enough,...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

The Aussies Have A Two Seat Top Fuel Dragster – This Is Not A Flipping Drill! (Video)

We’ve long reveled at the awesome Powercruise shows that go down in Australia and at a couple locations here in the USA. Sadly we haven’t been able to attend one ourselves, but we sure...

Throwdown In T-Town LIVE Broadcast: Saturday Replay Available Now!

UPDATE: Watch all of Saturday’s action without some of the downtime! Pro Mods, Outlaw Doorslammers, Outlaw 10.5, Drag Radial and Much More! This Friday and Saturday we’ll be live...

BangShift Question of the Day: What Dead Car Company Would You Bring Back to Life With One Billion Dollars?

The list of dead car companies is damned long. Some of the names are infamous like Yugo. Some of the names are legendary like Duesenberg and nearly all of them are lamented by legions of devoted...

100 Photos of Chevy Novas!

The Chevy Nova is a staple at car shows, drag strips, cruise nights, autocrosses, and anywhere that car guys are getting together with their classic American iron. Hell, my dad still races the 1970...

BangShift Blog Archive: We Interview EJ Potter, The Michigan Madman

(Editor’s note: We ran this piece on EJ Potter back in 2010- We’re running it again today because we were thinking of EJ yesterday when the dude wiped out on the V8 bike in the vide we...

FREE REPLAY Of Our Interview With Pro Mod Drivers, And Track Owners, Martin And Haney

That’s right folks, tonight we’ll be starting our LIVE Streaming Video broadcast of the Throwdown in T-Town with an hour (or more) of fun with Pro Mod drivers Todd Martin, Keith Haney,...

Tech Video: How to Degree a Camshaft

As we all know, one of the biggest pieces in being successful with building your own high performance engine is attention to detail. The details of keeping your work space clean and organized, the...

The Lambrecht Collection Auction By The Numbers – Here’s the List Of Every Car and Every Sale Price!

It was one of the most hyped, publicized, and anticipated car auctions of all time. It was a massive collection of old dealer trade ins as well as “new” cars that were close to 50 years...

Video: Henry Ford’s Sweepstakes Racecar Rides Again With NASCAR’s Carl Edwards

Our boy Ronnie Mankins sent us the link to this one yesterday and it’s bitchin. You hear all the stories about the racecars of the early 20th Century, but you can’t imagine what it must...

MORE: HISTORIC

Rumors: Jeff Lutz Goes 6.97/216 In His 1957 Chevy – Heading To Oklahoma To Tangle With Street Outlaws TV Cast!

So the soup can with the string attached to it here at the remote BangShift HQ in Florida went nuts last night with reports that Jeff Lutz was testing at Indy and laid down a big 6.97/216-mph lap...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Lamest Automotive Excuse?

From the parking lot cruise night to the race track and beyond, you can always find a car guy with an excuse as to why something isn’t going as planned. The dude who crap talks other...

Video: Texas Pro Mods VS Fuel Altered Showdown At North Star Dragway

Les Mayhew has done it again with his latest video from the Texas Pro Mods VS Fuel Altered Showdown at North Star Dragway in Denton Texas. It was an event that pitted light weight ill handling...