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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Factory Hemi Superbird Feature Video: This 1,500-Mile HEMI Superbird Has SERIOUS Drag Racing History!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it and in this video below you are going to get a look at an awesome 1970 Plymouth Superbird that came from the factory with the famed 426 Hemi under...

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This 700HP, LS7 Powered 3rd Gen Camaro Restomod Is Something Special! What A Beast!

I’m a Camaro guy. I know people know me for wagons and mini trucks and whatever but I grew up in a Camaro family, my first car was a Camaro, and I love them. My favorites are first Gens like my...

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Street Car Takeover Atlanta: They Turned a NASCAR Speedway into a NO PREP Track And The Action Was Awesome!

Street Car Takeover in Atlanta was a huge event and the racing action on pit lane of the Super Speedway was hot and heavy. We’ve been doing the same thing at LSFest Texas for the last few...

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Young, Boychuk Notch 2012 March Meet Victories to Cap Incredible Weekend at Bakersfield

The winners of the premier categories at 2012 March Meet were from the unlikely cities of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Salem, Wisconsin. Tim Boychuk drove his Canadian based 1977 Pontiac Firebird to...

BangShift LIVE FREE Streaming Video Coverage of the 2012 March Meet

BangShift is proud to announce that we will once again be providing FREE LIVE streaming coverage of the historic March Meet at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California starting this Thursday at...

BangShift is Proud to Announce Comp Cams and FAST Have Joined our Family of Sponsors!

Chad and I are very proud to announce that Comp Cams and FAST have joined the BangShift family of sponsors. As two of the aftermarket’s leading companies, Comp Cams and FAST deliver high...

EFI Video: Watch Holley’s Self Learning EFI Tune Itself on an Engine Dyno

Holley’s Avenger, HP, and Dominator EFI systems all have self learning capabilities, meaning that once you install the hard parts, you can literally fire the engine up, drive around, and the...

Aeromotive to Sponsor the Cobra Jet Challenge Class on the Fun Ford Weekend Series Tour

It was recently announced that Aeromotive will be the title sponsor of the Cobra Jet Challenge class for 2012 on the Fun Ford Weekend series tour. This class, which is run on an index basis is open...

BangShift Exclusive: This Photo Plumbs the Depths of Human Automotive Stupidity

The photo below has not been edited, changed, retouched, or altered in any way. I got this from my father in law, who got it from his buddy Bob, whose daughter actually took the shot herself. The...

The 2012 Motorama – Photo Gallery 2

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we brought you the first of two galleries from the 2012 Motorama which was held in Harrisburg, PA. The event was a wide open show with big trucks, hot...

Violent Wreckage Video From the 2012 King of the Hammers

A week or so ago we showed you some grainy video of a violent crash at the 2012 King of the Hammers event in California. At the time we had mentioned that the co-driver was rumored to have broken...

S&W Race Cars Joins BangShift’s March Meet Live Broadcast as Sponsor!

Tomorrow morning, the 2012 March Meet, a four day nostalgia drag racing extravaganza kicks off and we’ll be there broadcasting the whole thing LIVE and FREE right here on BangShift. The only...

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Speed is The International Language: How the World Rally Team Hooked Up to Race the King of the Hammers Together

If you’ve never heard of the infamous King of the Hammers off road race, you need to hit the books. The event is one of the most unique and intense races in the world and it is also one of...

Question of the Day: What is the Worst Year to Year Redesign of a Car Ever?

After seeing a mid-1980s Jeep Wrangler roll by me in traffic the other day and shuddering at the square headlights, I got to wondering what other ill-advised automotive redesigns have been dropped on...

eBay Find: A Hummer H2 That Makes Normally Obnoxious Hummer H2s Look Like Hybrids

I’ve always thought that people who bought Hummer H2s during their height of their popularity and then during their plummet from said height were probably suffering from some sort of mental...

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Show Gallery: The 2012 Motorama – Harrisburg, PA – Gallery One

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we delivered several galleries and a couple of them were from indoor car shows and expos. Doug Garrison, one of our photo contributors from the...

From the BangShift Blog Archive: A Serious 1964 GTO Wheelstand!

(Editor’s note: This originally ran back in 2010, but in honor of the March Meet coverage this week, I dug it up!) – I have a soft spot for 1964 Pontiac GTOs. My dad restored one when I...