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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Video: The Miniature Slingshot From The Postman Pat Guys Hits The Strip!

Our pals over in England, the Postman Pat dudes have gotten their awesome little motorcycle powered slingshot dragster on the strip! The run you’ll see in the video below was made last weekend...

Bitchin’ Video: Watch A Corvette Grand Sport Rally Car Get Prepared For The East African Safari Rally!

A couple years ago we were geeked out by the dudes who attached the East African Safari Rally with an old Mustang. As cool as that was, another group of racers has risen to the challenge and built a...

Video: Monterey Historics At Laguna Seca Highlights

We’ve never been able to go to the Monterey Historics race at Laguna Seca in Monterey, even when we lived close by. It’s just always been on a weekend where something else was going on,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Have You Had So Many Cars That You Actually Forget Some Of Them Sometimes?

This isn’t a bragging type of question. Trust us. We’re not lighting our cigars with $100 bills around here and forgetting that we have a Bentley parked around back by the servant...

Craigslist Find: A Never Titled Or Registered 1969 SS Camaro With Racing History

Robert Martin at MSD found this one yesterday and sent it over saying that this one was rare. You think? Hell yes it’s rare! Who else has a ’69 Camaro SS that has never been titled or...

Event Gallery: Corvettes At Carlisle – Street Freaks, Barn Finds, Race Cars, Restos, and More!

(Photos by Jeff Lee) – There’s no denying that the Corvette nameplate is one of the most deeply seated in the American high performance automotive world. From sports car racing to the...

PowerShift is BACK – Come Watch LIVE With Chad and Brian! The Show Starts At 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern!

After a couple week break, BangShift’s no-ready-for-primetime show PowerShift returns LIVE TONIGHT! We’ll be kicking things off at the normal time of 6PM Pacific and 9PM eastern time that...

National Challenge ’72: Lundberg, Garlits and The Greatest Rogue Drag Race Ever

(Editor’s note: We ran this story last year the day the US Nationals kicked off and we’re doing it again in 2013. We’ve added some info, so give it a fresh look!) This weekend the...

Amazing Video: Watch An Awesome Close Call On The Nurburgring That Results In Zero Wreckage – Awesome Driving!

Hey, I guess today is “near miss” day on BangShift. That’s fine with me because like the video of the wild drag boat “save and sink” earlier today this video featuring...

Barnstormin’: You Don’t Want Reality So Stop Bitching About Not Getting It

On Tuesday, the guys from Jalopnik ran a cool story that investigated the thousands and thousands of FCC complaints filed by NASCAR fans watching races on TV. It really is a great read and gives you...

Caption This Photo: SCHWING!

NEWSFLASH – Chad and I are both mentally children. Sure we strike you as the buttoned up, formal, locked down kind of professionals you’d expect to find editing phone books but...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best Burnout Machine You Have Ever Owned?

Burnouts. They’re not proof your junk is fast, or that your junk is any good at all, but they rule. They rule in a straight line, in circles, backward, forward, and sideways. They’re...

Video: Dick Johnson, Tearing It Up At Bathurst 1983. Listen To The Clevelan Scream.

This is one of those videos that you just want to watch over and over again. At the famed Mt. Panorama in Bathurst Australia, this is one hell of a race track. At the end of the video Dick wads this...

Last Blast: Our Final Gallery From The World Series Of Drag Racing – Nitro At Night!

(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Just when you thought it was safe to go outside….we’re back with a last blast of bad ass photos from the 60th running of the World Series of...