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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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Desert Cash Days Video: Middle Of Nowhere Mexico Street Race For Big Money! Wheels Up On The Street!

While living in Southern California, I went to many a street race out in the middle of nowhere in the high desert. There is something about racing that far out that just makes it hit different. This...

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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 Were Cold But The Action Was Hot! Check Out All Of Our Galleries Starting Right Here!

(Photos by David Whealon) – The PDRA Carolina Nationals from Darlington were cold and challenging, but we’ve got a bunch of photos from David Whealon showing just how cool the cars and...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Super Stocker Feature: This Classic Tri-Five has been a 265ci powered Small Block Race Car Since 1972!

Old race cars are cool, but old race cars owned and raced by the same people for decades is even cooler. That is exactly what this cool 1955 Chevrolet is. Rene Garza is the man behind this great...

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2026 Virginia Motorsports Park IHRA Pro-Am Series Super Stock And Stock Eliminator Drag Racing

It’s time for some IHRA Stock and Super Stock video, this time from our friend Bobby Fazio at the IHRA Pro Am at Virginia Motorsports Park. We’ve shared other photos and video from the event...

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Breaking (Record) News: Hot Rod Power Tour Participants Do The World’s Largest Burnout – 73 Cars At Once!

Short story long, a new unofficial world record for the biggest burnout ever done has been set by 73 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour participants at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Previously,...

Happy National Donut Day! Here’s How The Camaro Team At Chevrolet Celebrates

Happy National Donut Day from a couple of guys who know how to get their eat on. We also know a lot about the other kind of donuts. The tire smoke, fun in parking lots kind. Oh and the ones in the...

Crazy Video: A Drag Bike Runs 6.87 While Pulling a Quarter Mile Wheelie!

Motorcycle drag racer Chip Ellis has competed and won at all levels of the sport and on top of a multitude of different motorcycles. Most of you know his name from NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle...

Gallery: 50 Photos of 1932, 1933, and 1934 Fords!

When the words “hot rod” hit your ears, chances are that an image of a 1932 Ford shows up in your mind’s eye. If there were no 1932 Ford, there is an excellent chance that the car...

Retro-Gallery: 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion – Cacklefest Photo Gallery

(Editor’s note: One week from now, we’ll be in Bowling Green at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion bringing you live video and great photos. Were going to look back at some of...

Friday Reason To Go Home Early And Drink: The Fisker Karma Is The Modern Delorean

My loathing of Deloreans has been well documented on the pages of BangShift. So well documented, people occasionally taunt me on Facebook regarding it. That wouldn’t bother me much except for...

Drag Week Prep Is ON! Watch Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds Camaro Put Down 2,108hp At The Tires With Holley EFI!

Oh yeah, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week prep is in full swing all over the country. Some guys are still cutting and welding, others are making test hits on the strip, and still others have tweaked combos...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: How Important To You Is Using Technology In Your Hot Rod?

After watching the video of the old school gassers getting after it on the eighth mile, it got me to thinking about the use of modern technology in hot rods. Some guys hate it all and won’t...

More Four Speed Gasser Greatness Video – This Is Stott On Stott Family Crime! Big RPM, BangShiftin’!

So what’s better than showing you Quain Stott running his gasser? How about showing you Quain Stott’s nephew, with some coaching from his legendary dad Mitch running his gasser against...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy – Kenny Chesney (1998)

On my long ass drive to Ohio yesterday for the ECTA meet this weekend, I saw lots of tractors. None of them were manned with a dude with a hot chick hanging off of him, but maybe that’s a...

Would You Drive It? A 1972 Toyota Corolla Road Race Machine We Found On Ebay

We dig old iron. Even the import stuff like this little 1972 Corolla, although we could live without what appears to be a miniature Chevy Monte Carlo front end on the thing. We even have video of...

Power Tour Is In Full Swing! Visit BangShift’s Sponsors, And Win Big!

That’s right, hanging out in this joint may actually pay off for you guys eventually. After all, BangShift.com’s sponsors are some of the biggest and baddest on Hot Rod’s Power...

Vintage Baja Chevy Truck Formerly Owned By Steve McQueen And Raced By Mickey Thompson Heading For Auction

Well if this isn’t the coolest Chevy 4×4 of all time, I’m not quite sure what is. This 1969 Chevy truck was the first ever factory built Baja competition truck that the company...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Attack The Wilmington Mile With A Crusty Old Monza And Five Leaf Blowers!

Having seen the glory of the leaf blower supercharged Monza in person at the season’s first ECTA event in Wilmington, Ohio, I was super interested to see the rest of the story about how the...