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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Rocketeer Funny Car Rig Stolen Last Night: Help us Find It!

Jim Barrett with the Rocketeer Funny Car team just announced that their Nostalgia Funny Car Tow Rig was stolen between 11pm and 6:30am April 20th. Please help them find it. The Rocketeer Team has...

SCRAPPLE: The BangShift Guide to this Week’s Automotive Crap You Care Nothing About

Writing the Scrapple column is a pain the ass. Mostly because this junk is usually stupid and we typically hate what is written about it by the “normal” press. But this week, as usual, we...

Great Video: Chases and Crashes…and they have their own YouTube Channel!

Multiple people just let us know about this YouTube Channel that is all about car crashes and chases. Some of them are absolutely mistifying. But the thing that makes us go hmmmmmmm the most is the...

BangShift Garage Spotlight: We Show You Some of Our Favorite Readers Rides

There are tons of great cars and trucks in the BangShift Garages on our Forums, and now we’ve even added a commenting feature! Today we decided to gives some of our guys a little love by...

BangShift Forum Freaks Shirts, Hats, Sweatshirts, and More ON SALE NOW!

It’s that time of year again boys and girls. Time for Hot Rod Power Tour planning and that means Forum Freaks gear is on sale now at BangShift.com. We have shirts, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies,...

EPIC FAIL VIDEO: 30 Ways To Ruin A Great Day On The Dyno

We can’t take credit for finding this one, because it came from BangShifter extraordinaire Malcolm Dyer who happens to live in Spain and is with us on every single LIVE drag racing broadcast...

BangShift Announces Sponsorship of Nissan Pro Stock Team! What do you think?

HA!!! We got your attention with that one didn’t we? LOL  Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves. Brian is off playing on a Pro Mod this week so I’m left to my own devices which means...

Snavely is BACK! Plus We Release His Epic Crash Video from SCSN 2011

For those of you who weren’t watching during our huge LIVE broadcast at the 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals, you missed an amazingly scary crash. For those that were with us, you know the...

Chadmouth: The IndyCar Edition Including Photos and Video!

So, the Monday before the Long Beach Grand Prix our guy Jimi Day, with Optima Batteries, calls and says “Hey bud, Optima is a sponsor of the World Challenge Series and I have some credentials for...

Live Blog: We’re Working on the Crew of an ADRL Pro Mod This Weekend

In a decision he will probably regret for the rest of his life, NHRA and ADRL Pro Mod racer Peter Farber invited me along to work alongside his crew this weekend at the ADRL event in Bristol,...

Watch a Blown Altered Flip Onto Its Roof at the Drags In New Zealand – Southern Hemisphere Wreckage

Racing an altered can be a real handful as this racer and the crowd at a New Zealand drag strip recently found out. As the car is launching, it gets way out of shape and ends up rolling onto the roof...

Gallery: Autocross Photos From the 2012 Running of Mopars at the Strip

(Photos by Hotchkis Sport Suspension) – While rain certainly did its best to dampen the drag strip action at last weekend’s Mopars at the Strip event in Las Vegas, the Hotchkis autocross...

Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School Loves Jiffy-Tite Fittings and You Should Too!

Whenever Chad and I are chatting up Jiffy-Tite fittings with people, one of the first questions is always, “Well how many times can you take them on and off before they leak?”. The easy...

eBay Find: A Half-Million Dollar Modern Rendition of Big Oly – Street Legal Trophy Truck

For starters, I can say that I have seen this truck up close and personal at the SEMA show a couple of years ago and it is freaking awesome. This is one of the neatest trucks I have ever seen and as...

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