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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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Action Gallery: Road Course Photos From the 2012 Optima Face Off at Eagles Canyon Raceway

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – After the first day of autocross and speed stop fun, the field of competitors at the Optima Face Off road tripped 70 miles north to Decatur, Texas and the...

Big News: Baer Brakes Joins the BangShift Family of Sponsors!

Chad and I are so very proud to announce that Baer Brakes has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. For more than 40 years Baer has been in the business of making everything from street machines...

Action Gallery: The 2012 Optima Face Off Autocross – Grand Prairie, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The 2012 Optima Face off was a qualifying event for the 2012 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational to be held in Nevada after the close of the SEMA show in...

Power Tour Gallery: Grand Prairie, Texas – The Final Stop

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The final day of the 2012 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour was held in Grand Prairie, Texas at a massive multi-use facility that housed a AAA-baseball stadium, huge...

Watch a Reher-Morrison NHRA Super Stock Hemi Scream to Almost 9,000RPM on the Dyno

This is some glorious noise! We recently discovered that world famous engine building company Reher and Morrison has a YouTube channel that they are posting dyno videos on. They have a few of them up...

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Watch Andy Frost in his Red Victor 3 Become the Quickest and Fastest Street Car in the World: Video

We’re stupid late to the game with this news and video, but Andy Frost became the owner and driver of the world’s quickest street legal car a couple weeks back when he blasted off a 6.59...

Power Tour Gallery: The St Louis Stop 2012 by Jeff Lee

Jeff Lee of Nashville, TN got the chance to go on his first Hot Rod Power Tour last week as part of the launch of his family company’s new HammerHead Housing 12 bolt IRS differential for the...

Killer Cruise Gallery: The Forest Lane Reunion Cruise – Dallas, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Almost every city in America had a hot cruising spot in the 1970s and early 1980s, then as those cities developed and urban sprawl took over, the cruising spots got...

Gallery: 75 Photos of Stock and Super Stock Wheelstands!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Earlier this year Charles Wickam did a great job shooting the NHRA Spring Nationals in Houston, Texas and during that race, he captured a ton of killer stock and...

Watch Finnegan and Freiburger Pit a Rat Rod Against a $400,000 Lamborghini on the Newest Roadkill!

Freiburger and Finnegan are back with their newest episode of the web-show “Roadkill”. In this episode, the dudes take a $400,000 Lamborghini Aentador and a rat rod built as a promotional...

Shop Tour Gallery: Speed Inc. – Schamburg, Illinois – Killer Builds, Burnouts, and More!

(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) – What a perfect name for your shop that builds killer LS powered machines! “Speed Inc” and its owner Tom ordered some perfect weather and temps.He...

The 2012 GOJO Giveaway is ON! We Have Two Winners and A New Poll!

As we told you last week, BangShift and GOJO Industries have teamed up on a cool summer giveaway that rewards you hard wrenching guys and girls who are out there getting dirty working on your stuff!...

Question of the Day: Given the Chance, What Historic Race Car Would You Drive?

When writing about Cotton Owens’ passing yesterday, I of course thought of his cool “Cotton Picker” match bash wagon right off the bat. It got me to thinking about what single race...

eBay Find: The Coolest Ramp Truck in America – 1970 Dodge L600 Resto-Mod Truck

We normally keep our eBay finds to a once a week level but after being tipped off to this totally bitchin’ 1970 Dodge L600 ramp truck by BangShift reader Deaf Bob, we had to get it here on the...

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