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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our Final Day 1 Racing Gallery from Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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MSD DYNAFORCE Alternators: A Race Alternator That Works

I’ve always found it incredibly annoying to race with someone that doesn’t have an alternator on their race car. Even worse is the guy that has one but it is so poorly installed it might...

Sideways, with Rodney Prouty: An Average Hot Rodders Adventures In Car Building And Racing

The first Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, got great feedback and Rodney is really cranking on these things because we already have another in the can for next week. Read on. As always with Rodney,...

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Antron Brown 2013 Winternationals Crash Video – Here It Is

Of all the crazy stuff that happened during the 2013 NHRA Winternationals, Antron Brown’s scary high speed wreck was by far the worst. As you’ll see in the video below Brown’s...

Question of the Day: Who Is the Most Volatile Personality in Racing History?

All disciplines of racing are stressful and potentially dangerous. There’s a certain type of person that finds racing cars to be an appealing exercise and those people don’t tend to be...

Buford T Justice Update: A Very Frustrating Day On The Dyno And How We’re Planning To Fix It

So first, I’ll lead with an apology. This update was supposed to run last week but a blizzard and a bunch of other stuff jumped up and caused the delay. With the amount of email, text, forum,...

Gallery: The Rumble Cats Hot Rod Club – Rally In The Alley 2013 – Spring, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Texas scene is rolling and our man Charles Wickam is on the scene bringing us great photos as the glaciers close in around BS eastern world hq. Charles hit the...

Dead Drag Strip File: A Visit To The Sleeping Remains Of Seneca Dragstrip – Northern Illinois First Strip!

(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Recently, Bob Chiluk and I made the trek out to Seneca, Illinois to visit the remains of Seneca Dragstrip. Never heard of it? Not many people have, it was...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – (1971)

A bunch of different bands and artists have covered the song Hot Rod Lincoln over the year but my all time favorite is the version of the tune by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen that was...

Blow It Up Sunday: Jack Beckman’s Crazy NHRA Fuel Funny Car Explosion At Pomona

As the NHRA season opener Winternationals is underway today in Pomona, we thought it would be appropriate to show our pal Jack Beckman’s 2012 Pomona explosion that happened mere months ago at...

Blow It Up Sunday: A Chevy Van Tests The Rev Limiter… And The Connecting Rods. Which One Fails First?

We are firm believers in testing all the available options on rental cars, new cars, etc. This of course means the rev limiter as well. And various manufacturers have very different rev limiters that...

Blow It Up Sunday: Watch This Turbo Motor Explode Spectacularly On The Dyno

For this Sunday we decided it was going to be all about exposions. Engines blowing up, cars blowing up, rods and pistons getting away from crankshafts, etc. It’s awesome. Watch in this video as...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: William Shatner Jumps His Dodge St. Regis While Chasing A ’73 Plymouth As TJ Hooker

Hear that noise? That’s Chad whimpering because I am bringing Shatner to the party and he is sky boxing his Dodge St. Regis police car a couple of times while in hot pursuit of a bad guy in a...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: Fred Dryer And His Bitchin’ ’77 Dodge Monaco Chase The Bad Guys

Know why Chad is boned for whatever weiner stuff he is going to post tomorrow? Because I have freaking Lee Majors and Fred Dryer as my lead off acts. Dryer played 12 seasons in the NFL (Chad,...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: Lee Majors Kicks Ass In An Electric Wheelchair And The Iconic Fall Guy Truck

Since we had such a great response to the weekend content we ran before the live broadcast of the PSCA Ice Breaker Nationals, we’re going to make a habit of it. I’m clearly going to own...