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IHRA Names Dustin Farthing New President Of The International Hot Rod Association

IHRA Names Dustin Farthing President of the International Hot Rod Association FAIRFIELD, OHIO — The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is proud to announce the appointment of Dustin Farthing...

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Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Testing And Qualifying Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND’s HELLA 2026! COURSE 3 RACING ACTION

If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look to be...

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Camden Murphy Sets Monster Truck World Speed Record at Monster Jam at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Monster Trucks are awesome machines, and the things they are capable of doing are mind boggling at times. But as fast, and crazy, and high flying as they are, top speed is not the thing you think of...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 3 of 5 – What’s Wizardry Is Going Into This Beast? The Science Behind Better Handling

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Here’s The Answer To Our “What The Hell Is This” Challenge From Yesterday – Tons of Info and Photos!

Yesterday we showed you photos of an odd looking like trucklet thing. Well, the owner of that odd looking little trucklet thing is one Brian Earp and Brian was kind enough to send us a ton of info,...

Photo Highlight Reel: Bob Chiluk’s Favorite Photos From 2012 – Top Fuel, Pro Touring, and Barn Finds!

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – My interest in cars and anything with wheels always presided over my interest in photography. But those grade school days reading Hot Rod magazine and seeing...

BS Daily Tune Up: Crawlin’ From The Wreckage – Dave Edmunds (1979)

Dave Edmunds’ 1979 ode to automobile wreckage didn’t make the charts in the United States, but it did manage to climb to the number 59 spot on the British charts that year. Some claim...

eBay Find:A 1974 Vega Racer With A Full Boogie Suspension, Built Up Cosworth Motor, And History!

Sweet mother of cone crushing, apex clipping, slaloming, coolness. This 1974 Vega is set up to rip, has a totally documented and cool racing history, a Cosworth engine that was run at Bonneville on...

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10% OFF Everything Sale At American Powertrain Through Jan 12th!

So many of you BangShifters bought stuff from American Powertrain during their two end of the year sales in 2012 that they decided they might as well do another one. And you guys are the ones that...

Gallery: Burnouts! A Collection of Cool Burnout Photos From The BS Photo Archive

(Photos by BS staff and contributors) – Boiling the bolognas, frying the hides, laying patch, doing a smoke show, etc.  The practice of roiling your rear tires goes by many different names and...

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Question of the Day: Do You Know What The Hell This Thing Is?

BS reader Brian Earp recently sent us an email with a photo of his truck and thought it would be fun to try to stump the rest of you out there in reader land as to what in the hell it is. He gave us...

BS Photo Highlight Reel: Scott Liggett’s Favorite Photos of 2012 – Road trips, Wrenching, and the Drags!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Brian texted me just before Christmas to send in some of my favorite pics that I took over the last year, I was a bit worried because I didn’t...

BS Daily Tune Up: Beep Beep – The Playmates (1958)

Life was pretty darned good for The Playmates in 1958. The group has just signed on to Roulette records, cracked into the Top 40 with two tunes off of their first album. Adding to that was the...

Gallery: The Cordova Dragway Park 2013 Hangover Nationals – Drag Strip Action At 14-Degrees! BRRR!

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track,...

Video Bonanza: U-Haul trucks Getting Thrashed

We’ll admit right off the bat that we have beaten down a U-Haul truck or two in our day. We got a V10 powered model high sided on a pile of tires one time. It’s kind of a long story, but...

1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!

(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working...

ALL BURNOUTS! Nostalgia Video From The California Hot Rod Reunion. Les Mayhew Has Outdone Himself

If you are like me and don’t give a damn about all the football games going on today, then here is something that will make your day go much, much better. Les Mayhew has put together another...

Thank You BangShift Sponsors! Here’s To Another Great Year Together

We got started late this morning because we figured that most of you would be sleeping one off after last night, but we just wanted to give one more shout out here on Day One of the Best Year In...