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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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Wreckage Video: In Car Footage Of A Cobra Jet Mustang’s Huge Wheelie And Heavy Impact At Cecil County

Last week we bought you video of a new Cobra Jet Mustang launching off the starting line at Cecil County, pulling a bumper dragging wheelstand, and then crashing hard into both walls at the track....

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

We’re in catch up mode after the weekend’s wild live broadcast of the PSCA Street Car Supernationals so forgive us for being a day late on testing your gearhead knowledge! Anyway, the...

Car Show Gallery: Jalopyrama 9 – Hot Rods, Customs, Traditional Rods, Old Race Cars and More!

(Photos by Dan Grippo) – Frequent BangShift contributor Joe Grippo has a brother named Dan. Joe insists that they aren’t twins and that he’s better looking than Dan. Frankly, we...

Evan Knoll’s Attorney Asks For Leniency – Massive Prison Sentence Expected To Be Handed Down On Wednesday

The speculation of exactly how harsh the government will punish Evan Knoll shall end on Wednesday when he is officially sentenced after pleading guilty to all of the charges levied against him. The...

Gallery: The Goodguys 15th Annual Southwest Nationals – Scottsdale, Arizona

(Photos by Justin Oney) – The Goodguys season is coming to an end for 2012 with one fine show this weekend in Del Mar California. Last weekend the tour visited Scottsdale, Artizona and...

eBay Find: A Boeing Gas Turbine Powered Go Kart – BS Approved Levels of Insanity!

We have to thank BangShift reader Andrew Lenthe for the tip on this amazing turbine powered go kart that is currently for sale on eBay. Looking all the world like a well constructed but bat shit...

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Video: Watch The Hypermax Dragster Make The Quickest Diesel Pass Of All Time (We Think)

We’ve been following the exploits of the Illinois-based Hypermax Engineering team and their diesel powered dragster for the better part of a year now. The last time we showed you video of the...

Galleries:Our Photos From the PSCA’s Street Car Supernationals VIII – Door Slammer Action!

(Photos by Rob Kinnan) – If you missed our live streaming broadcast of the 2012 PSCA Street Car Supernationals you failed to see one of the great door slammer drag races of all time. ET records...

Video Replay: The 2012 Street Car Super Nationals

That’s right folks, it’s time for the biggest battle of East vs. West in Pro Street, Outlaw 10.5, Drag Radial and more, and we’ll have it all live from Las Vegas where Street Car...

Video: Watch The Greatest 8-Second Sleeper In America Lay Down A Lap At Atco

There’s nothing better than a great sleeper and the 1967 Chevelle in this video is better than great, it is sublime. The car goes by the name, “Honk If Parts Fall Off” and it sure...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Bizarro Part Identified and Today’s Challenge Introduced!

Unstoppable and all-knowing are the two words that I’d use to describe the throngs of people checking on our daily “Test Your Gearhead Knowledge” blog items. As usual, you guys got...

eBay Find: A Mint 1975 GMC Motorhome – Is The New BangShift Mobile Command Center – It Has An Air Raid Siren!

Chad and I have long joked that we need a BangShift mobile command center. We need a vehicle capable of serving as our live broadcast station, living quarters when Daphne and Kerri get pissed at us...

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eBay Find: A 1966 Charger Body From The Dawn Of The Funny Car Era – Vintage Perfection

Today’s modern funny cars are cool with their 300+mph speeds, 8,000hp engines, and big league sponsorships. Nostaliga nitro funny cars incorporate the feel of the old days with some new tech...

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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Ancient Behemoth And Today’s Weirdo Component

I went full on weirdo with yesterday’s engine because I was hoping to cause the BS readership to throw up a goose egg in the guess department, but no, you went ahead and nailed it. The engine...