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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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Powermaster Starters and Alternators Joins The BangShift Family Of Sponsors

It is always exciting for us to announce new members of the BangShift sponsor family and this one is no different. Powermaster, a leading producer of starters and alternators for everything from...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What TV or Movie Car/Truck Suffered The Most Tragic On Screen Death?

As much as we love famous cars and trucks that take on lives of their own in the movies or on tv, many of them end up in bad shape. Maybe they’re jumped off cliffs, set on fire, crashed into...

Video: A Day At The Drags With A Lenco Equipped Pontiac Firebird – Pure Mechanical Music!

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Some of our favorite videos are the ones where good camera angles are used, some nice cuts are made, and nothing else is done to screw with...

Ozzy Moya Acquires Assets Of Orlando SpeedWorld Dragway – Assures Racing For “At Least The Next 20 Years”

Over the weekend we received the below announcement from Ozzy Moya himself and we’re very happy to share it with you. Moya has taken over Orlando Speedworld Dragway and will operate it into the...

Gallery: More Super Bad Ass 1980s Pro Street Photos – A True Time Warp Gallery Of Photos!

(Photos by BS Member DragBike425) – Man, the hits just keep on coming with respect to killer shots of the 1980s Pro Street craze that completely enveloped the hot rodding hobby in the 1980s and...

Phil Remington Dead At 92 – Legendary Fabricator, Designer, and Engineer – American Racing Hero

With sadness, I report the passing of Phil Remington who accomplished more in his 92 years on Earth than most can ever dream of. Remington’s skills as a builder, fabricator, engineer, and...

Click Here To Watch A FREE LIVE Stream Of The PSCA Record Breaker Nationals And NHRA Pro Stock Testing Feb 9-10th. 9AM Sat, 10AM Sun

That’s right folks, it’s time for PSCA Racing action LIVE here at BangShift.com where for the second year in a row we’ll be broadcasting start to finish action at the PSCA Record...

Best of BangShift: Blizzard Preparedness- Screw Canned Goods and Batteries, Fix the Antique John Deere Snowmobile!

While weiner, clean-handed automotive bloggers were preparing breathless items about the new Kia Rio, sipping a Mochachino and working up a semi to Ken Block videos, we were laying in the snow,...

OPEN HOUSE: Racepak and MSD Open The Doors: FREE Food, Seminars, Tech, and Prizes!

Hell yeah boys and girls, it’s time for the Racepak and MSD Open House here on the West Coast. Held at Racepak’s headquarters in Rancho Santa Margarita on Wednesday February 13th, you can...

Historic promo video: The Olds Jetfire Turbo V8

We’ve been on a kick for old promotional videos lately and this one, featuring the “new in ’62” Olds Jetfire turbocharged V8, is totally cool. Touting the performance and...

Dyno Video: Watch 173ci Make 963hp — Seriously

Let’s face it, most of us won’t ever own an engine that makes more than 960hp on the dyno. It is a simple fact and it makes those engines something pretty special to check out. What makes...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Car Guy Movie or TV Quote?

Given our BangShift Daily Tune Up is a song that we all grew to relove in Days of Thunder, a movie that has a ton of great lines to quote, we figured it would be fitting to have our BangShift...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Gimme Some Lovin’ by The Spencer Davis Group 1966 – A Days Of Thunder Favorite

Gimme Some Lovin’ rules. It was #2 in the UK in 1966, #7 in the US, and is Rolling Stone Magazine’s #247 of the top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. We can’t argue with that, because...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Has A New Facebook Page: LIKE THEM NOW!! NO I MEAN IT!

The guys at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks put up a new facebook page at the end of last year and have been getting everything set and ready to roll and now it’s got some good stuff on it....