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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Buford Update: Our 9C1 Caprice Gets Real With Mickey Thompson Tires and Cragar Wheels

(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Last we left you, Project Buford T Justice was sitting on all four tires suspended by a complete Hotchkis Sport Suspension system and some hardcore...

Roadside Find: Whit Bazemore’s 1993 Fast Orange Dodge Daytona NHRA Nitro Funny Car Body!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – BangShift contributor, Tommy Lee Byrd, took the scenic route to Atlanta Dragway this weekend and stumbled upon a rare sight—a dilapidated funny car...

Video: First 6-Second LS Powered Drag Radial Pass Ever

Mark Carlyle put  the smack down at the LSX Shootout at Lucas Oil Raceway Park and ran the very first 6-second Drag Radial pass by an LS Powered car in his super bitchin Corvette. The team has been...

Event Coverage: Lucas Oil Raceway Hosts NMCA World Street Nationals And LSX Shootout

Indy is one of the most iconic dragstrips in the country, and when the NMCA rolled in for the LSX Shootout and World Street Finals this past weekend, the place was packed with bitchin big and small...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer And A New Challenge!

Yesterday I threw a tough one out there in this string of parts identification blog items. Basically I gave you two photos of an interesting looking engine block and asked you to identify it. Well...

Video: Watch Leon Smith And His Hot Rod Kenworth Take On The Toughest Canadian Big Rig Drag Racers Yet!

We can’t get enough of the balls out Canadian big rig drag racing scene, especially when it involves our favorite participant Leon Smith and his hot rod Kenworth dump truck. Sure it seems a wee...

Dead Guys, Dead Brands, Legendary Cars, and Coolness From The 1964 NY International Auto Show Program

Like today, companies and car manufacturers employed many different techniques in their ads back in the 1960s. The collection below, culled like so many others before it from the 1964 NY...

Gallery: Over 100 Wheelstand Photos From the 2012 NHRA Dutch Classic!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We will make one guarantee with this gallery. In every single one of the 116 photos, at least one of the cars in the frame is hiking the front end up to the sky. Joe...

Cool Video: A Chronicle of the Amazing Lutz/Larson Drag Week 2012 Battle!

There were many, many highlights from Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 but the epic prize fight between Jeff Lutz and Larry Larson was certainly the one that the most eyeballs were focused on. During...

Steve Matusek Wins Pro Mod at the Throwdown at T-Town In The Aeromotive Turbo Mustang!

We wanted to send a quick note of congratulations to Steve Matusek, Chuck Samuel, Larry Larson, and the rest of the crew at Aeromotive for their big win at the 2012 Throwdown at T-Town. Steve wheeled...

Craigslist Find: An Absolute Train Wreck Of A Third Gen Camaro

The third-gen Camaro is still in that historical hot rodding limbo area where people bag on them regularly. For a while, it was late second gen cars that got all that hate, but people seem to dig...

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Video: Watch Roger Sterling’s Massive Heavy Street Wreck At the Shakedown at E-Town

There was lots of racing around the country this weekend, especially on the drag front. There was the Throwdown at T-Town where we live broadcasted, there was the Dutch Classic in Pennsylvania, and...

Roadside Find: A Subaru Dually — You Read That Correctly, A Subaru Dually!

BangShift reader Erik Andersson sent us what could be the weirdest, funniest, most ingenious, and just flat out most quizzical roadside find in the history of this website. Erik was at work, making a...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – The Answer To The Last Question and A New Challenge!

Last week I told you about my stop by Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts and challenged you, the vast readership of BangShift to identify an interesting block and cylinder head that were...