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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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$1500 From Racepak! End Of The World Deal ENDS TODAY LIVE. BangShift Picks The Winner!

MAKE YOUR $3500 PURCHASE BY 12 NOON PACIFIC TIME TODAY AND YOU WILL BE ENTERED IN THE DRAWING FOR $1500 OFF. WE ARE DRAWING THE NAME LIVE RIGHT HERE AT NOON AND WILL ALSO BE GIVING AWAY OTHER SCHWAG!...

eBay Find: “She Looks Like 200 MPH But She’s Not” – A Rolling Disaster Area Kit Car

Another day, another complete disaster of a kit car for sale online. If you happen to be drunk at this early hour of the day, your eyes may be telling you that we’re bagging on a Ferrari...

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Gallery: Fresh Photos From the 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – The 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival held at the famed Pimlico horse racing track was the most talked about car show of 2012. This event brought...

REPLAY: PowerShift With Chad and Brian… End Of The World Edition! At 6 pm

Dudes, tomorrow is the end of the world according to all the crack pot jack holes, so tonight’s episode of Power Shift should be relatively interesting since we have nothing to lose and can say...

BangShift/Comp Cams Question Of The Day: Is Your Hot Rod Ready For The Cold Weather?

When we saw this question on Comp Cam’s Facebook page this morning we laughed. I mean out loud, because of the photos attached to it. They have some of the best photos and one liners on there...

Bonus CraigsList Find: Gabby Bleeker’s Famous AA/FA (Kinda Sorta) For Sale!

We’ve got to thank our own Greg Rourke for the tip on this one. He must have been fuel altered shopping on Craigslist and came across this ad featuring the famed AA/FA of Gabby Bleeker listed...

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Gallery: More Great Photos From the Belair Plaza Outlaw Car Show at The 2012 Daytona Turkey Run

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we dropped a load of about 100 photos on your from the Belair Plaza “outlaw” car show that breaks out at the Daytona Turkey Run event every...

Sea Of Cones: The Coolest Intro To Autocrossing Film We’ve Seen – Why You Need To Do This Stuff!

There’s not doubt about the fact that autocross competitions involving cars that were not traditionally part of the autocross world have been growing at an explosive level over the last couple...

Craigslist Find: A Legit 1970s Built 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Street Freak!

While today we openly roast stuff like “donks” there was a time when jacking your stuff up was cool and that time was the 1970s and the whole street freak movement. This 1969 Road Runner...

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WTF Find: A VW Based “Camaro” Kit Car — Absolutely Horrendous In Every Way

Of all the weird, occasionally heinous, bizarre junk we have highlighted here at BangShift over the years, this thing takes the cake. Chad’s head is going to explode when he sees this. We have...

Atco Raceway Sold – Historic New Jersey Strip Purchased By Len Capone Jr. – Alky Funny Car Racer

Atco Raceway, located in Atco, New Jersey has been sold to its current ownership partners to Len Capone Jr, a New Jersey native with a long history with drag racing and the historic drag plant...

Video: Rental Car Burnout Extravaganza Thanks To The Guys At Aeromotive

I seriously have to apologize for not having this video up sooner since I was actually at the track when this burnout went down. I knew that a couple of Aermotive Fuel System guys watched it happen...

Video Bonanza: A History of Camaro TV Commercials 1967-1998 — We’ve Got A PILE Of ‘Em!

We’re not sure why we killed an hour looking for old TV commercials, but maybe you can spend half that looking at this compilation of Camaro ads over the years. There are 19 videos here because...

Caption this Photo: How not to Move a Car on a Train

This photo had our mind reeling with possibilities of awesome captions. We should give you some background info first, though. No one was hurt in this accident. In fact, no one was even in the...