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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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Craigslist Find: A Trike Project With LOTS of Torque (when completed)

It is always weird when I get a tip on the hotline and it is from my own local area. Take this semi-completed trike that is powered by the engine and transmission from an Olds Toronado. Yeah,...

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Watch the Hotchkis E-Max and the Killer 1970 Satellite 4-Door Autocross Taxi In Action at the Carlisle Mopar Nationals

The All-Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle is one of the biggest shows of the year at the fabled PA-venue. The men and women of Hotchkis Sport Suspension were on the grounds with their E-Max Challenger...

BangShift Question of the Day: Who is the biggest Villain in Racing History?

After following up on the Evan Knoll story yesterday and getting to thinking about”bad guys” in the world of racing, we started coming up with a pretty decent mental list. From devious...

Evan Knoll Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges – Faces 70 Years in Prison, 100-Million in Fines

Evan Knoll, the one time drag racing magnate plead guilty today to Federal charges that have the potential to send him to prison for 70 years and cost him upwards of $100-million in fines. That sound...

Buford T Justice 9C1 Update: The Parts From Hotchkis, Cragar, AFCO, and Mickey Thompson

Last week we put Buford T Justice, our project 1987 Caprice 9C1 through the last set of paces on the stock suspension and tires. The car performed as we pretty much thought it would, wallowing some,...

Watch An Opel Speedster Wreck Hard on the Nurburgring in Germany – Video

Germany’s Nurburgring has been in the news lately because poor management and awful financial decisions have left it nearly bankrupt. People from all corners of the world have been freaking out...

Super Bitchin Mopar Video: The 1971 Challenger “Goodguys Missile” 2012 Giveaway Car

Mopar fans rejoice, the Goodguys 2012 Giveaway car is an artistic interpretation of the venerable Motown Missile of the 1970’s. Our friends at Route2Media put this great video together showing...

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Racing Junk Find: A Rick Jones Built 1968 Barracuda With Modern Pro Stock Power!

Well this is full on bad-assery to the highest order here! A classic 1968 Barracuda stuffed with a 500ci modern Pro Stock engine and all kinds of full boogie chassis work from Rick Jones Race Cars in...

Check This Out: FAST LSX 92mm Intake Manifold Is Now Available In Black!

We are fans of black engines, even our Chevy engines are always black or cast coat grey. And now the guys at FAST have helped us out by making black the new color of choice for LS engines with their...

Watch the BangShift Sticker Equipped Elephant Hunter Scout Gasser Break the Wheelie Bars and Go Vertical at Byron Dragway!

Dave Pelissier is a BangShifter with a hella cool machine. His 1963 International Scout has graced our pages before. Originally built as a street machine in western Canada with a Hemi in the front,...

Check Out Video of a Bitchin’ 1961 Ford Shop Truck – Striping and Stance Perfection

Shop trucks have certainly become their own dedicated genre of the hobby over the last several years. Hell, half of the reason I bought the old C50 wrecker that’s currently in my stable is...

BangShift Slap Fight: Do Pro Street Cars Require Stupid Power to Be Cool Or is Mild OK? Brian and Chad Debate!

(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the gearhead...

The BangShift Spotter’s Guide to Bitchin’ Old Australian Muscle Cars and ‘Utes

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – It is a minor coincidence that we’re heavy on content based in Oz today. We were tipped off to the cool old Aussie drag racing videos by an Australian reader...

Video Bonanza: Awesome 8mm Films of 1960s Australian Drag Racing – Bitchin’ Hot Rods and Drag Machines!

One of the things that I always love to learn about is the history of drag racing in places outside of the USA. The reason that it fascinates me is because while the sport itself was exported from...