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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 Were Cold But The Action Was Hot! Check Out All Of Our Galleries Starting Right Here!

(Photos by David Whealon) – The PDRA Carolina Nationals from Darlington were cold and challenging, but we’ve got a bunch of photos from David Whealon showing just how cool the cars and...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Super Stocker Feature: This Classic Tri-Five has been a 265ci powered Small Block Race Car Since 1972!

Old race cars are cool, but old race cars owned and raced by the same people for decades is even cooler. That is exactly what this cool 1955 Chevrolet is. Rene Garza is the man behind this great...

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2026 Virginia Motorsports Park IHRA Pro-Am Series Super Stock And Stock Eliminator Drag Racing

It’s time for some IHRA Stock and Super Stock video, this time from our friend Bobby Fazio at the IHRA Pro Am at Virginia Motorsports Park. We’ve shared other photos and video from the event...

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Influence And Impact Podcast: Rolling Art – Wheel History Part 3: Billet Wheels And Multiple Piece Aluminum Wheels

Wheels and tires make or break a car. When combined with the right stance, the wheels and tires on your ride can dramatically change the look, character, and feel of any car or truck. With one simple...

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Boots On The Ground: How To Actually Fill A Dragstrip In 2026

(Words By Darr Hawthorne) • Drag racing, and motorsports in general, has never been an easy sell. It wasn’t in 1965, it wasn’t in 1985, and it sure isn’t now. Somewhere along the way, we all...

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More Carnage Video: Watch A 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang Pull A Huge Wheelie and Then Crash Hard At Cecil County

We were tipped off to this video by BangShift reader Jack Stetson that shows a 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang factory drag car crashing hard at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland. The car launches hard and...

Carnage Video: Watch Outlaw 10.5 Racer Mike Kimmis Suffer A Huge Wreck and Explosion At Ozark Raceway Park

There’s lots of cool classes that make up the “small tire” drag racing world but for our bucks, the insanity that happens in the Outlaw 10.5 class totally takes the cake. With twin...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Inline Answer and the Toughest Challenge Yet!

Yersterday’s inline six was correctly guessed as a GM 4200 series engine. The 4.2L mill was installed in a variety of cars and trucks like the Trailblazer, Envoy, Buick Rainier and other GM...

Bonus Junkyard Gallery: Even More Coolness from Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, NJ

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday, we brought you the first of two galleries from within the confines of Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, NJ. Joe Grippo snuck off into the wilderness...

Awesome Find: A Wild 1931 Ford Designed As A Snow Fighting Montana Mail Delivery Vehicle – Grandfather of the TRAR!

BangShift reader Bill Gantner tipped us off to this magnificent creation that he first spotted on BringATrailer.com, which is a site you should also be reading every day. The BAT boys found this...

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Event Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – Gallery Two – More Great Hot Rods, Muscle, and Unexpected Treasures!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the first gallery from Fleming’s Pumpkin Run gearhead gathering version 2012. Grippo shot so many great photos of so much great stuff we...

Video: A Tire Shredding, Donut Cutting, Turbo Tractor Defies Physics and Good Sense!

This video is absolutely, 100% BangShift approved! What you are going to see below is a guy driving a modified farm tractor powered by a turbobcharged Volvo engine. Built somewhere over in...

Barn Find Stash! We “Investigate” A Rumor And Find Super Cool Stuff We Want. Detective Work Starts Now.

After a buddy of ours told us that there was a barn full of “Fairlanes, and Cadillacs, and a Vette, and all kinds of stuff”, we just had to check it out since we were somewhat close. Of...

Event Photos: Goodguys Autumn Get-Together in Pleasanton, The Home Of Goodguys

While announcing the autocross at the 23rd Goodguys Autumn Get-Together in Pleasanton, we grabbed some photos for you to enjoy. Hot rods, street rods, pro touring Camaros, Pro Street, and more were...

Junkyard Gallery: Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, New Jersey – Lots Of Neat Rusting Stuff!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Earlier today we showed you a great gallery from the famed, and yearly Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, New Jersey. In that gallery we showed you...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Last Week’s Answer And Today’s Inliner Challenge!

Last Friday we threw a photo out for the rabid BangShift readership to identify. We may as well have thrown some rare steaks into the lion pen at the zoo. You all knocked the snot out of that one and...

Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – One of the East Coast’s Coolest Gearhead Gatherings!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Harry Fleming is a South Jersey legend and every year in early November he and his friends put on what is quietly becoming one the best attended, unique car...

Jeff Lutz Goes 6.909/215-MPH In His 1957 Chevy at NMCA Houston, Texas Event On Saturday

(Photo by Justin Oney) – Just a quick note of congratulations this Sunday to Jeff Lutz and his son Jeffrey on their titanic 6.90/215-mph lap during the NMCA Houston event this weekend. That was...

Evan Knoll Arrested On Bond Violation Ahead Of Sentencing In Federal Fraud Case – Firearms and Intimidation Involved

Evan Knoll, the one time “king” of drag racing and the man who plead guilty to a multitude of federal tax-fraud charges was arrested on November 8, 2012 for violation the conditions of...