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Check Out The Action From The Frontside NO-PREP Shootout at Darana Dragway, Milan MI – May 16th 2026

We were at Darana Dragway Milan last fall for the IHRA $125,000 to win Pro Mod Shootout and man is that track fun. I hadn’t been to Milan in years, and they have definitely added some nice...

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Vintage IMSA! Watch The 1989 IMSA Nissan Grand Prix of Miami Right Here! The Original Miami Street Circuit.

IMSA has had some of the coolest race cars on the planet over their decades of racing, with GTP and GTP Lights being some of their coolest. In the late 1980’s, when many believe GTP was at...

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Free Road Racing Livestream From England: British Automobile Racing Club Action LIVE From Thruxton

It’s time for more road racing in England! This weekend there are drag races at Santa Pod and then a big road racing weekend at Thruxton. The weather is good, the racers and fans are out in droves,...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom FJ40 Tailgate Mount + Jeep Beach Prep Begins With Shannon and Jess Campbell

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper and fender flares complete, it’s time to wrap up the rear with the tailgate mounts. But these aren’t just any flares, as they...

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704 Outlaws Video: Outlaw Small Tire Racing Returns To North Carolina’s Mooresville Dragway

We’ve got 704 Outlaws video below, thanks to our friends at Spoold Media. If you aren’t familiar with the 704 Outlaws classes, trust us when we say they are fun. They’ve got simple rules, small...

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REPLAY – Free Livestreaming Road Racing: The 2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course – FULL WEEKEND Coverage LIVE!

Last weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the SCCA ran two days of Hoosier Super Tour races and we’ve got the livestream replay right here! These are some fun SCCA regional races and feature some...

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Weld Launches New GT-S Premium Sports Car Wheel Line With Killer Designs And Construction

Weld Racing Wheels are iconic in the hot rod and racing world, there is no question. But a lot of folks think of them strictly as muscle car or drag race wheels. Not true. Their RT-S series of wheels...

Free Mammograms In The Pits Turns Out To Be Way More Popular Than You’d Think

Hey now, don’t get all creepy on us. We’re being serious here. You know that throughout the month of October that Chad Reynolds with BangShift.com had a pink beard in support of Breast...

Jim Dunn Racing Is Bringing Back The Mooneyes Funny Car For The NHRA Finals In Pomona!

Every drag race fan, hot rodder, and racer loved the Mooneyes Funny Cars that were run by “Big” Jim Dunn. When I collected Die Cast Drag Cars, it was one of my first purchases. Well now...

Quarter Mile Foundation Announces Project 1320 Documentary To Be Produced By John Mullin

Some of you may not be familiar with the Quarter Mile Foundation, or Project 1320, if you don’t follow west coast and Nostalgia Drag Racing very closely but you should be. The Foundation, which...

This Japanese Jet Powered Tank Exhibition Machine Is Doing It HIlariously Wrong…But We Still Get A Kick Out Of It

Japan: we’re back for the second time this week with a video from a drag racing event on the island nation. While we have never personally visited Japan, through mediums like the internet and...

The Parting Shift: In Cab Aerobics Shifting a Twin Stick Kenworth

Truck driving is a tough job. There’s the need to be safe to rack up hundreds of thousand and even millions of accident free miles, the pressures of living on the road and the ever inflating...

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Help Us Find This Utterly Bitchin’ Corvette – Formerly Owned By Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer – Is It Still Around? Is It Lost To History? Help!

We need your help to find one of the coolest custom Corvettes ever built. This was the machine of Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer the well known painter, customizer, and hot rodder from NY....

Drag Battle: Tanner Foust’s World RallyCross Fiesta Versus Roy Hill’s 5.0L Supercharged Cobra Jet Mustang…Who Wins? (Video)

We wish that we had Ford Racing’s video production budget because we’d be pulling guys like Roy Hill and Tanner Foust together for fun like they do! We don’t know who to credit, but...

Garlits Museum’s 2014 International Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced

(Courtesy of Darr Hawthorne) International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2014 announced The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, housed at the famed Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing...

Ride Along In The World’s Quickest GTR As It Goes 7.87/187 At Santa Pod – The Driver Is Working HARD!

While we’re certainly not known as guys who spend a lot of time talking about Nissan GTRs here at BangShift, we are guys who get impressed by amazingly quick and fast drag strip passes,...

Barnstormin’ – You Can’t Put The VHT Back In The Barrel (Or The PJ1)

Yesterday, I ran a blog item showing a couple of runs being made by top fuel dragsters in Japan. What’s interesting about drag racing in Japan is that they do not believe in preparing their...

Video: Harry And Daniel Davies Share An Epic Road Trip In Bill Burnhams “Old Blue” Roadster

The guys at ShareTheDrive.com have shared an epic one with us. This video shows Harry and Daniel Davies accounts of their father and son roadtrip behind the wheel of Bill Burnham’s “Old...

Triumph Video: Leon Smith And The Epic Thump Truck Kenworth Bust Into The 13s! 10 Tons and A Stick Shift!

It has been an elusive chase, but Leon Smith the owner and driver of the law dropping Kenworth dump truck that we named the “Thump Truck” has finally collected his first 13-second time...

Video: A 395 MPH Streamliner Ride Along That Is Goes Every Which Way But Straight At Bonneville

Bob Dalton is a bad ass. Not only because he brought a Bill E Badass streamliner to Bonneville this year, but because he and a kick ass group of racers and hot rodders built the entire thing...