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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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Caption This Photo: Drag Racing is Hard

(Photo by Joe Grippo) – There are some days at the strip that fly by and everything goes as smooth as glass. Then there are the other days, like the one these guys in the photo below are having...

Project Buford T Justice Hits the Dyno and Goes KABLOOEY! CARNAGE VIDEO INSIDE!

After we ran Buford T Justice at the strip and the 4,000lb tank shocked us with elapsed times in the 15-second range, we were immediately intrigued as to the actual power output of the 185,000 mile...

Watch a Skid Plate Race From Bowman Gray Stadium

Any gearhead who has had access to both a front wheel drive and plastic lunch trays has combined the two for magical parking lot hilarity. Skidding a car around like this is really fun and so long as...

Gallery: Wheels Up Farm Tractor Pulling Action!

There’s not much like a good old fashioned farm tractor pull to satisfy your gearhead soul. It is the most basic form of mechanical competition on Earth and it is the internally combusted...

Caption this Photo: Something Doesn’t Feel Right

(Photo Bob Chiluk/Greg Rourke) – Lots of GM 10-bolt rears died on the drag strips of America this recently passed weekend. I saw two of them blow up at New England Dragway and Chiluk/Rourke saw...

Drag Gallery: Killer Sportsman Action From RT 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois

(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – BangShift’s two man photog platoon, Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke took to the famous Rt 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois last weekend to shoot some...

Watch the Totally Bitchin’ Trailer to a Documentary About the Famous Big Red 1969 Camaro of RJ Gottlieb

Big Red is one of if not the single greatest road legal 1969 Camaro in history. Built by Dan and RJ Gottlieb and used to compete in dozens of different events, the car can run 220mph flat out during...

BangShift ADRL Gallery: Action Photos from the ADRL Spring Drags at Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve been covering the hell out of the ADRL this season and for good reason, the series rules the school when it comes to doorslammer action. Last weekend the...

Buford T Justice Hits the Chassis Dyno Today…Guess the Rear Wheel HP!

So color us obsessed if you want, but after our 15-second stock drag romp with Buford a little more than a week ago, we were really interested in putting this car on a dyno to get a rear wheel hp...

Watch Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger Drive a Lingenfelter Tuned Camaro ZL1 202mph!

Like everyone else, we saw the announcement the other day from Hot Rod Magazine, that Freiburger ran a ZL1 tuned by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering to a terminal speed of over 202mph at the...

FREE LIVE Streaming Video From Battle at the Banks Starts Saturday Morning

SCHEDULE UPDATE SCHEDULE UPDATE: WE WILL BE LIVE BY 7:45 AM DUE TO A SCHEDULE CHANGE HERE AT THE EVENT RATHER THAN 7AM. If you want to see what is arguably the coolest Pro Touring Event on the...

Watch Some Great Video From the Goodguys Del Mar Autocross!

We got tipped off to some sweet video from the 2012 Goodguys Del Mar, California event that focuses on the autocross, and specifically some of the hottest iron on it, the Hotchkis Camaro, Challenger,...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong

When the dust settles and the big book of drag racing history is finally written, Dale Armstrong will stand alone among a group of five or six men judged to be the greatest crewchiefs of all time....

Question of the Day: What is the Most Pointless Automotive Competition?

After that flaming burnout contest video, I got to thinking about all the different automotive type competitions out there. Outside of the normal racing type stuff, there are lots of pointless...