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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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Event Gallery: The 2012 GM Nationals at Carlisle, PA – Chevy, Olds, Caddy, Pontiac, Buick, Corvette — All here!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – BangShift’s own Chevy loving lensmen Dave Nutting braved the sweltering heat and funnel cakes of Pennsylvania last weekend at the yearly gathering of all things...

Watch a John Deere Pulling Tractor’s Face Get Blown Off By an Exploding Turbo

Last week we showed you a violent pulling crash from the European circuit and today we’re going to show you what type of violence happens when a turbo that is shoving better than 100lbs of...

Watch: All Angles of 5th Gen Camaro and BMW Pro Drift Cars Wrecking In Turn 1 at Formula D Event at Wall Speedway

The Chevrolets are being dinged up at an impressive rate recently. Last week we showed you video of a Corvette owner burying his car onto the guardrail at the drags before ever making the starting...

eBay Find: An AMC M422 Mighty Mite – The Gnarly Mini-Jeep You Never Knew Existed!

With respect to cool and collectible old military trucks, they don’t come much smaller or more rare than the AMC M422 Mighty Mite, a tough little bastard designed to be flown into the front via...

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Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Maple Grove’s Epic 50th Anniversary Race Bash!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The Grove turned 50 and they threw a helluva party…. Nitro Funny Cars, Alcohol Funny Cars, The Winged Express, 4 Jets, a Wheelstander and Bob...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Optima Face Off At Historic Road America Raceway – Killer Cars and Action!

(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) – Optima Batteries hosted another qualifier for the Optima Ultimate Streetcar Invitations  that takes place right after the SEMA show later this year. What...

MSD Introduces New Line of DynaForce Starters – High Performance, Light Weight, Lots of Applications

The dudes and dudettes at MSD have not been resting on their massive Atomic EFI success. As proof of that, they just rolled out a completely new line of starters that they are calling,...

Watch a Guy Crash His Z06 at the Drags Before Ever Getting to the Starting Line!

Yes, it is late to be posting stuff on a Friday, but frankly when we first saw this video we knew it would be something that BangShifters would want to see and we aim to please. We feel pretty bad...

Watch the Ridetech ’33 Being Driven in Anger at the Texas Optima Face Off – Autocross, Speed Stop, and Road Course Action

Ridetech’s new ’33 coupe is hella cool for a multitude of reasons. From the fuel injected. 600hp Ford engine up front to the totally hard core and bad ass Ridetech suspension, the car is...

Question of the Day: What is the One Element You Car Has to Have? Fast, Low, Corner Carver, Great Paint?

Hot rodders and gearheads are a particular bunch. We all have our likes and dislikes, whether they are rooted in certain eras of cars, styles of cars, or even specific performance elements, we all...

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Watch the World’s Lamest Drifting Event End With a Corvette Getting Smashed

When you watch this video, you’ll probably think the same thing we did on our first viewing, which was, “What the hell?”  Other than the Corvette, we have no idea what the other...

World’s Most Horrendous Rolling Disaster For Sale On Craigslist – Unparalleled Nightmare

There truly are not words to describe how heinous, wrong, nightmarish, and awful this “1962 International” is. We have no idea what in the hell the guy that glued it together was trying...

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Weld Racing Unveils Delta-1 Drag Racing Wheel – Revolutionary Design Unlike Any Pro Level Drive Wheel in Drag Racing History

For months, there have been hushed conversations happening with the guys at Weld Racing regarding a new product that they were finalizing for drag racing. It has been similar to the buzz the company...

Barnstormin’ – Why Bowling Green Serves As My Nitro Fueled Tent Revival Every Year

The 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky was another interesting endevour for Chad and I. The event itself was bad ass to levels previously...