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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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Watch a Driver Lose the Handle on His Late Model GTO and Wipe Out Two Motorcycles

There’s not a BangShifter among us who has not lost the handle on their car at least once. Maybe it was on a snowy road, a wet highway, or on a race track where you dipped a toe over that fine...

Watch Mike Maier Horse Wrangle His Awesome Mustang Around the Road Course at the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational

Earlier today we showed you some crazy video of Bill Maier wrecking in spectacular fashion during a 1982 Trans Am event at Laguna Seca Raceway in California. As it turns out, those racing genes were...

BangShift Question of the Day: What is Your Favorite Automotive Stance?

A car or truck’s stance is the first major thing that anyone notices. How does it sit? What kind of attitude does it emit? From being slammed down into the weeds to riding like a monster truck,...

Watch Bill Maier’s Trans-Am Mustang Get Destroyed at Leguna Seca in 1982!

Despite the fact that we always seem to concentrate on Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was great racing for many years past that era. This video, shot at Leguna Seca in...

Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]

When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this...

Ridetech Announces Design Contest Winner and It is a Looker!

We’ve been keeping you up to date with Ridetech’s design contest and now it is time to unveil the winning scheme that the Ridetech guys will apply to the Factory Five ’33 Hot Rod...

BS Approved Video: Watch a Nitro Harley Get Built in a Home Shop

Our pal Chuck Noble has been on the electronic pages of BangShift before. He’s the guy, we featured running a nitro motorcycle that had iron heads and carbs on it. Well, Chuck was using that...

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Crazy eBay Find: A Twin Engine, Street Legal GMC S15 “Fire Truck” From ‘Bama

For many people today is a holiday, but not here in the halls of BangShift. We’re always working hard to keep you abreast of the most important news in the automotive universe. Take this insane...

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Irwindale Speedway Update: Property Owner Claims 20 Parties Have Contacted Him About Taking Over Track

Just as we were about to ditch the BangShift newsroom and start chugging beers tonight, we caught wind of a story that gives us more reason to be hopeful that the shuttering of Irwindale Speedway is...

Watch the First Episode of Roadkill – Freiburger and Finnegan’s New Show!

By now we’re sure you’ve heard that David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine are going to have a monthly web tv show called Roadkill. The first episode went live today and...

Big News: Jiffy-Tite Joins the BangShift Family of Sponsors!

Chad and I are proud to announce that Jiffy-Tite, one of the premier fluid transfer fitting companies in the world, has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. Their quick connect fittings are found...

Wreckage Video: A King of the Hammers Competitor Drives off a Cliff and Into a Huge Rock at High Speed

Yesterday we ran video featuring a King of the Hammers competitor completely mangling his buggy by barrel rolling it across the finish line of the race. The poor bastards in the video below...

Irwindale Update: All Hope Not Lost – Company That Owns the Property Wants to Resume Racing ASAP

We were tipped off to a link today that indicates the company which owns the track and offices wants to see the facility opened and operating again, “as soon as possible.” This report was...