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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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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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Dyno Video: A 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated LSx Rip Saw From The School of Auto Machinists – Awesome

It is weird that we live in an era when you can be cruising YouTube and see so many videos of 1,000-2,000hp turbocharged engines that it gets boring. That’s why we almost skipped over this...

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eBay Find: A Dead Nuts Awesome KITT Replica With Two Issues – The Price and The Location

There’s nary a BangShifter among us who didn’t love them some hot KITT action during the 1980s. Sure, David Hasseelhoff was the headline talent, but it was the Trans-Am he drove that...

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What Would You Build? Big or Bigger? We Keep Drooling Over The RHS LS Aluminum Race Block

We have several engine builds that are about to start here at BangShift, and they will range from 400+ to over 1000 horsepower, but every time we talk engines we can’t seem to get the super...

New Cars: The 2013 Ford Escape – We Drive It…and It Drives Itself!

Recently I was invited by the fine people at Ford to spend a morning checking out, driving, and climbing over the all new 2013 Ford Escape. If you’re wondering what I’d be interested in...

More Day Of The Drags Photos! Max Cackle Sent Us Some Super Sexy Shots You Can’t Miss

We should have dubbed this “Week of the Drags” here at BangShift because we’ve had so much great coverage from the Koninentals Day of the Drags event this week, and we’re not...

Nitro Video: A BangShifter’s Home Built Nitro Harley Fired Up and Sounding PISSED OFF In The Shop!

Chuck Noble’s name is no stranger to the pages of BangShift, Chuck is one of those cool guys with a welder and a plan. He’s been working for a few seasons now on completing a Nitro Harley...

Studebaker, Skoda, Jawa, and More Great Ads From the 1964 NY International Auto Show

The hits just keep on coming from the program we recently got our mitts on dating to the 1964 NY International Auto Show. We’re scanning the interesting old ads out of the book and posting them...

BS Approved Norwegian Video: An Old Ferguson Tractor Fitted With A Jag V12 – Screams Loud! Goes Fast!

We have to tank Norwegian BangShift Arild Guldbrandsen for tipping us off to this video featuring one of his fellow countrymen who took an old Ferguson tractor from (eyeballing it) the 1940s and...

Roadside Find From France! – A Crossover SUV Built Decades Before The Concept Existed

(Editor’s note – One of the neatest things about BangShift, in our eyes anyway is that people from all over the globe tune in each day to see what’s happening here. French reader...

Firebird International Raceway to Cease Operations In April 2013 – All Hope Not Lost Though Track May Reopen With New Management

It appears our grim speculation from late February 2012 is coming true. Word coming out of Arizona and from a well placed source are agreeing that Firebird International Raceway will cease to operate...

WOW!!! Epic BangShift Photo Exclusive: Andy Green And Mike Cook Jr. Run 190 In A Bentley

You ain’t gonna find this anywhere else boys and girls. Mike Cook Jr. texted us this photo yesterday from a private Cook test session at Bonneville and that is none other than Andy Green...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Somernites Power Cruise – Road Trippin’ With Awesome Cars!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Feel free to file this in the “better late than never” file, since it has been a couple weeks since the Somernites Power Cruise actually took place....

Drag Action Gallery: The 2012 Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip Bracket Bash

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Don’t be fooled by the title of this event—it’s not just a standard bracket race. It usually features only bracket racing classes, but the folks at...

Dyno Video: A 1500hp 428ci Windsor Ford From Nelson Racing Engines

It is always fun to peek in on the Nelson Racing Engines channel on YouTube to see what the dudes and dudettes at NRE have going on. We found this recent video, showing off the new 428ci Windsor Ford...

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