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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Cool Video: Watch A Blacksmith Make A Real Version Of Odd Job’s Hat From The James Bond Movies!

As I said earlier, Chad is long gone and hard to find this weekend so you know what I am doing? Whatever the hell I want.This bitchin’ video of a real life blacksmith creating a functional and...

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Craigslist Find: A Bizarre Banana Colored Boat Car – Weird But Oddly Awesome

We know what you’re thinking. Actually we don’t because our minds are so blown by this Tennessee built boat-car that we  currently confused by which was is up. In some angles it reminds...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Truck Drivin’ Man – Lynrd Skynrd (Recorded 1977 – Released 1987)

Chad’s off announcing for the Goodguys this weekend so he’s got no say in what hits the blog today! I’m kicking things off right with some good old southern rock and roll from Lynrd...

Watch The 48 Hour Camaro Take On The Gas Monkey Garage Guys In A Donut Cutting Contest!

Spoiler alert — The dudes from Ridetech and the 48 Hour Camaro are going to be on an upcoming episode of the gearhead show Fast n’ Loud. As is usually the case at the Gas Monkey Garage,...

Ebay Find Greatness: A Real Deal Jungle Jim Monza Funny Car! Burnouts Await!

My dad was friends with Jungle Jim back in the day. He and all his buddies worked on Jim’s cars, helped build the Nova and raised hell in their spare time. Heck, my first car trailer was Jungle...

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Watch A Cummins Powered Dodge Ram Absolutely Destroy A Viper On The Drag Strip

That disappearing spec in the lead photo is a Dodge Viper and the vehicle making it shrink into nothingness is a massive one ton Dodge pickup with a highly worked over Cummins diesel that makes more...

Watch MSD On PowerBlock TV This Weekend. The HorsePower Guys Do A Swap.

Check it out! Joe and MIke are doing an LS Swap, and into something never intended to house a V8. Like true hot rodders, that won’t slow them down even a little bit, but to save time and energy...

Show Gallery: The 2013 Chicago World Of Wheels – Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photography

(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photography) – We have been running tons of Autorama/World of Wheels coverage this year from across the country, so much that we’ve actually fallen out of order...

Project Update: The Chicken Coupe – Body Is Off The Frame, Trans Is Mocked In, Progress Is Made, Diablo Sandwiches Are Consumed

(Words and photos by Matt Graves) – Sorry for the long dry spell on the Chicken Coupe update. I can’t let Brian steal the spot light this week with his half-assed Buford T Justice update...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Expressway To Your Heart – The Soul Survivors (1967)

After a couple days of rock and roll we thought it was time to throw some good old fashioned soul music back into the mix for today’s Daily Tune Up. Our selection today is the Soul Survivors...

LIVE TONIGHT! POWERSHIFT WITH CHAD AND BRIAN! OUR WEEKLY VIDEO SHOW THAT COVERS ALL THING BANGSHIFT!

Thursday again, already?! You betcha and that means tonight at 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern we’ll be live with our latest installment of Powershift, the live weekly show starring BangShift’s...

Drag Gallery: Liam Garrity’s Retro-Cool Images From The 2013 March Meet

(Photos by Liam Garrity) – BangShift photo contributor Liam Garrity was shooting photos like a mad man at the March Meet. He spent some time putting the artistic touches on them that he digs...

Insane Wreckage Video: Two Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Truck Get Into a Dog Fight And Both Lose!

We’ve showed you some off the wall crashes from the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series before but this is the capper. Racers Casey Currie amd RJ Anderson get into one another while flying through...

Order Up! Ford Racing Opens Order Window For 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jets – Factory Drag Goodness!

The 2014 Cobra Jets can now be ordered as per the announcement from Ford Racing. We were hoping to see a turbocharged option for 2014 but it doesn’t seem like it is in the cards although a...