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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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Ridetech ’33 Ford Wins So Cal Challenge Series Season Opener With James Crosby Behind The Wheel

Team Ridetech was in full effect at the season opener for the So Cal Challenge Pro Touring Series. With the three fastest vehicles on site all Ridetech equipped, there was bound to be a dramatic...

Bitchin’ Nitro Video: Last Weekend’s Famoso Nitro Test – Warm Up For This Week’s March Meet! Killer Footage!

Our pal Les Mayhew makes some of the coolest nostalgia drag racing videos you’ll find anywhere, bar none. He’s tossed up another winner using footage he took last week at a pre- March...

Roadside Find: A 2003 Unimog That Is Set Up As The Ultimate Blizzard Fighter!

While cruising home from a feature car shoot with Dave Nutting yesterday morning, my dad called to let me know that he stumbled upon an auction site that listed a 2003 Unimog U500 for sale. I thought...

Gallery: Vintage Trucks And Tractors At The Central NY Living History Museum

(Photos by Jeremy George) – There are bitchin’ museums spread all over this country. Literally every state has a fistful of them filled with cool old machinery, cars, trucks, and...

Caption These Photos: Bringing A New Meaning To Road Ranger

(Photos by Jon Wall) – My pal and funny car driving hot shoe Jon Wall went on a mission on Saturday to NJ with another dude to inspect a funny car that was for sale. On the way down they passed...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Mustang Sally Bought A GTO – John Lee Hooker (Release Date Unknown)

John Lee Hooker is an American blues legend. His collection of songs is so long that we’d need to fire up another server to list them all. This is one of our favorites and it is a bit of an...

Gallery: Killer Top End Action Shots From The 2012 March Meet

(Photos from the BangShift archive) – In three days, Chad and I will be hauling ass towards Bakersfield to get our gear set up for the LIVE STREAMING BROADCAST OF THE 2013 MARCH MEET RIGHT HERE...

BangShift Sunday Movie Day: A Pair Of Massive Trucks Engage In A Tug Of War Battle – Ford Versus Dodge!

At the Vermonster event last weekend, Dave Nutting and I got a kick out of seeing some of the big “mega-truck” class competitors hook up in a tug of war. At the Vermster Snow Bog, there...

BangShift Sunday Movie Day: A 1989 9C1 Caprice Gets It Done On The Autocross Course

This is a cool piece of video showing a 1989 Caprice that I would argue is actually uglier than Buford T Justice getting after it on an autocross course with a driver who seems to have some skills....

BangShift Sunday Movie Day: Watch A Big Block, 4-Speed Camaro Tear Around A Swedish Dirt Track

We’ve featured a lot of videos from Jobergg’s YouTube channel over the years here on BangShift and he rules the scene in Sweden when it comes to cool hot rodding content. In this video,...

BangShift Sunday Tune Up: Fuel – Metallica (1998)

Super early this morning, Dave Nutting and I will be headed off on another adventure, this time to the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island. We’re heading down to shoot a feature on a car...

Awesome Ebay Find: If You Want To Have The Rarest Jeep On The Block, This One Is It.

As soon as BangShift web geek Michael Julian from Route2Media sent me this one, I laughed my ass off. Not only because he was being funny, but also because I knew that Brian would want this little...

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Our 15 Favorite Door Slammers From the 2012 March Meet

The two things that put the March Meet in a different class than other nostalgia drag races are the history that surrounds the event and the cars. Simply put, there are hot rods you’ll see at...

Video: TRARS!

It’s Friday and that means the weekend is nearly here, which means our serious, news hunting, journalist-selves are in the mood for some fun. We’re getting our jollies this week by...

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