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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Event Did Not Disappoint! Check Out All The Cool Photos That Mike Brooks Got Us!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) The Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina celebrated it’s 37th anniversary this year and as usual had a sellout crowd. This show sells out every year,...

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Our Final Gallery Of IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT!

Here’s our final gallery of IHRA Outlaw Nitro photos from Galot, but if you missed any of the previous photos we’ve got a link to them below. (Photos by David Whealon) If you live under...

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SIGN UP NOW…More Teams Welcome! Comp Cams Engine Builder Duel at the Car Craft Summernats This Weekend!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to put a set of Snap-On Tools to work, head to head, in a competition to see who can build and run a small-block Chevrolet the fastest, then step on up....

Video: Yokohama Off-Road Racer Heidi Steele’s Return to Baja, New Kid and All!

Women racers having kids isn’t a new thing, but when most women leave their newborn for the first time it’s usually to go to dinner and a movie with their husband, not to pre-run Baja....

Event Gallery: The 2012 Motor State Challenge – Pro Touring Bad-Assed-Ness!

(Photos and words by Bob Chiluk) – Lane Automotive  in Michigan probably had no idea that a few years ago if they sponsored an event if it would fly.Well fly it did and like they could not...

Gallery: The York US30 Reunion and Muscle Car Madness – Historic Drag Cars and Bitchin’ Muscle!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The York US30 Reunion and Muscle Car Madness show has become one of the biggest and coolest nostalgia drag racing and car shows in the country. The event celebrates the...

Drag Expo Coverage: Hundreds of Killer Photos from the 7th Annual Bixby Knolls Dragster Expo 2012

With Lion’s Drag Strip Cackle cars, tons of show cars, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, and more, the Bixby Knolls Drag Expo was one of the coolest...

Car Show Coverage: Our New Favorite! Haddick’s Hot Rod and Custom Car Show 2012

Southern California is full of cool car shows, and with weather like we have they happen all year long. The Haddick’s Towing and Autobody Hot Rod and Custom Car Show is one of the good ones. We...

Car Show Gallery: The Mooneyes Open House and Car Show 2012

Mooneyes is synonymous with cool cars, racing, customs, and all things hot rodding, and has been a staple in the industry since the ’50s. This weekend they once again opened their original...

Question of the Day: Are You Doing Anything BangShifty This Weekend?

We’re smack dab in the middle of the summer and that means that we’re smack dab in the middle of “car season” for those of us not lucky enough to live in climes that are...

Someone Finally Made an RX-7 Cool…By Shoving a Jet Engine Up Its Backside (w/Video)

Mazda recently announced that they were finally putting a bullet into their rotary engine program, marking the beginning of the end for the weirdo little engines. We know that they can be made to run...

RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!

When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously...

BangShift Sponsors Kick Ass in Columbus Goodguys Autocross Competition With Video

While Chad was running his mouth at the worlds hottest Goodguys autocross this past weekend in Columbus Ohio, John Jackson from Not Stock Photography was taking killer photos and lent us a few to...

Tune In: Live Streaming Sportsman Drag Racing This Weekend – The World Footbrake Challenge!

This weekend the World Footbrake Challenge goes down at Bristol, Tennessee. Thunder Valley will have a field of nearly 400 of the deadliest, most cold blooded footbrake drag racers in the world and...

Awesome Video: An In-Depth Look at RideTech and “Why Shocks Matter”

This video from RideTech is pretty damned cool for a number of reasons. The first is that it is filmed in a killer documentary style that we really like, the second is that it is chock full of really...

eBay Find: A Bitchin’ 1949 Mack Type 45 Fire Truck That Looks Good Enough to Road Trip Home (Slowly)

Starting in the war years of the mid-1940s and right through the 1950s, if you lived in a small to mid-sized town in America you thought of a Mack Type 45 when someone mentioned the words “fire...

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