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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sunday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Sleeperdude and Family Take An Off Road Christmas Tree Journey in an 80 Year Old Jeep That Doesn’t Drive Yet

When I think back to my earliest Christmas memories, one of the things I do remember was going to Christmas Tree farms to choose and cut our own tree. It was fun, and made getting a tree, bringing it...

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240z Suspension & Brake Upgrades, Plus Cool Tractor Pulling Innovations On Stacey David’s Gearz

Stacey is back at it in this episode of Gearz, working on his 240Z project which is getting some suspension and brake upgrades to keep this project moving. These cars have a ton of high performance...

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350 Mile ROAD TRIP in the 1957 Chevy Belair – Derek Traded SIGHT UNSEEN After He Finished The Rebuild!

Here we go again with another one of Derek’s Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras. This time he’s taking the Texas 1957 Chevrolet on a road trip for a trade. He has no clue how good the...

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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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Craigslist Find: The Ultimate Off Road RV – 1985 TATRA T-815 Czech Built Military 8×8

Brian is going to lose his mind over this one. It’s a 1985 Tatra T-815 Czech Built Military 8×8 that has been partially converted into an RV or exploration vehicle. It was supposedly...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Would You Drive It? A Blown Nash Metropolitan

The guys at Comp Cams pulled this photo off of Competition Plus, and asked the question whether or not you would drive it. And so we are stealing their question for use here as the BangShift Question...

Killer Wheelie Bar Breaking 4 Wheels Off The Ground ’69 Camaro Photo Thanks To AutoMeter

We are always commenting on how cool the guys at AutoMeter are, and the fact that they always seem to run really cool photos on their Facebook page. In fact most of the BangShift.com sponsors are...

Drag Race Photos: 2013 West Coast Hot Rod Association Season Opener Photos

Thanks to Jason Wilcox over at TCI, we’ve got some cool photos from the 2013 West Coast Hot Rod Association season opener at Famoso. Since the West Coast Hot Rod Association’s inception,...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Car Wash” by Rose Royce (1976)

As the theme song for the 1976 movie Car Wash, and the lead single on the soundtrack, this song would reach #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. As a kid I remember this one for sure, and it always makes...

Caption This Photo: Uuhhhhhh I Don’t Even Know What Else to Say. Just Caption It.

We’re not sure what Mike Cook Jr. is doing right here, but everyone else on the team appears to be working. Either that, or none of the rest of the Dark Horse 2 crew wants to know either....

Holley Is Developing A New Throttle Body And They Need Your Help – Free Parts!

The boys and girls at Holley are deep in development mode on a new throttle body for LS2 and LS3 engines and they are looking for test vehicles in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area. That’s...

BANGSHIFT QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS YOUR CLOSEST CALL IN A CAR OR TRUCK?

After watching all those little Euro-mobiles wreck on the ‘Ring in that blog item yesterday you are probably thinking about a time or two where you found yourself a little short in the talent...

Drag Gallery: Bracket Racing and 275 Drag Radial Action from Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Yesterday we featured a gallery on the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip Nostalgia Race, but we didn’t mention that the track held a double header. At 3pm,...

Wheelstand Sequence: A Gnarly Datsun 240Z Literally Stands It On The Bumper At Brainerd!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It was a great day at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with lost of cool cars. By far, the star of the show was Ron Lane in his nitrous-fed 240z, which did...

Incredible Burnout Video: The Most Wild Flaming Aussie Video We Have Ever Seen!

Aussie BangShifter John Tearle tipped us off to this video of a Commodore Ute not only burning the tires off, but also nearly burning to the ground during an Aussie “power skid” contest....

Celebrity Car Death Match: Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 GTS VS The Miami Vice Fake Ferrari Daytona Spyder (w/video)

Celebrity Car Death Match has taken on a life of its own. We’re getting proposed match ups, hate mail, and weirdo automotive fan clubs all riled up at this deal and that’s absolutely...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Trooper – Boys In The Bright White Sports Car (1979)

This one should resonate with our BS brothers and sisters living in Canada as Trooper is one of the country’s better known rock bands and they are the group that recorded this tune, Boys In The...

Have You Cruised Chris Alston’s Chassisworks New Product Catalogs? You Should!

We like to make sure that good, hard work gets recognized. When we learned that the squad over at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks had reworked, revamped, and released some new product catalogs...