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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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Richard Petty’s Drag Racing Legacy: The Hot Rod Hoarder Separates The FACTS from The MISCONCEPTIONS Right Here

One of our favorite hot rod historians is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, because he’s a fount of information and really gets into his subject. He’s so good at the history behind...

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Here’s IHRA’s Full Schedule For 2026: Triple Crown, Specials, Purses, And So Much More Right Here!

IHRA has been putting out tons of announcement for the past several months, and if you have missed any of them you can use the link below to see some of the bigger ones. But if you want to see the...

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Making Fenders From Scratch With Cornfield Customs: Designing And Shaping The Buck – Fenders Part 2

We shared Part 1 of the Cornfield Customs Fender building series where wood was being prepared and cut for the buck that these fenders will be shaped to fit, and now we’ve got Part 2 where...

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A Big Rig That Is Lower Than a Ferrari? The Cab-Under Trucks That Drivers Feared, Were An Awesome Idea… Maybe

If you have never seen photos or video of one of these cab-under trucks that were out in the 1970s, you are missing out and will love this video. The idea behind them was simple, put the rig under...

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Carburetor Tech: Predator Carburetor Deep Dive Part 1 – How They Function and How To Rebuild Them. What About Parts?

We’ve talked about the Predator Carburetor before, most recently with a video from DD Speed Shop where he was having issues, which you can use the link below to check out. But Predator...

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Awesome Read: The Fantastic Story of Bigfoot 1 – The Original Monster Truck

If there is one vehicle in the universe that we want to some day sit in, at minimum, and at maximum idle around a parking lot, it is Bigfoot 1. The truck that started as a hobby project of Bob...

BangShift Poll Results: What is the Most Historically Significant Drag Strip Still in Operation

This was the biggest poll we’ve ever had on the site and it was a dog fight right down to the end with both Great Lakes Dragaway and George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip receiving thousands of...

Fun Not Dead: GM To Introduce SS Sedan in 2013 as 2014 Model

General Motors, once punch drunk and clinging to the ropes is starting to feel like itself again. The company has become more lean, produced better cars, and has shed lots of the creepy government...

Caption this Photo: Why are These Men Smiling?

When these two are on a golf cart and smiling like Cheshire cats, life is probably fixin’ to get bad for other drag racers. The two men in question are of course, the always hard charging Billy...

Great Video: The Story Behind the Spectre 341 Challenge

The Spectre 341 Challenge is one of the most intense street car events in the world. Held on a five mile stretch of Nevada highway 341, it curls and climbs up a mountain, often times with with no...

Original Two Lane Blacktop 55 Chevy To Be Displayed at the 2011 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

The most Bangshifty movie car of all time, Two Lane Blacktop’s 1955 Chevy will be appearing at the 2011 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, June 16-18 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This is one...

Project Car UPDATE: Pro Stock Bike Champ Eddie Krawiec’s Drag Radial 2000 Camaro

  ABOUT EDDIE KRAWIEC’S DRAG RADIAL 2000 CAMARO 2008 NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Eddie Krawiec and DMC Racing have teamed up to build a bad ass 2000 Camaro for Drag...

Caption this Photo: Go Halves on a Duster?

Mike Janis debuted his newest “Widow Maker” Pro Mod at the first ADRL race of the season. Janis runs the machine in the ADRL’s Pro Extreme class and it was built by Andy McCoy Race...

eBay Find: 1962 Pontiac Catalina Super Duty That’s Nearly All Original

In the early 1960s, if you wanted to be the fastest guy on the block, you ponied up for a Pontiac. If you wanted to be the fastest guy in the county you went to the biggest Pontiac dealer you could...

GM Peformance Division’s Mike Copeland now running Operations at Lingenfelter

Longtime BangShift.com supporter and GM Performance Division God, Mike Copeland, is now the Manager of Operations for Lingenfelter. With Mike’s sick pension for all things loud and fast, we...

Roadside Find: A Killer 1953 Dodge Dually Truck!

Yesterday, as Chad was recovering from his exhaustive video work at the rain delayed 2011 March Meet, we loaded up the kiddos and our wife, setting off for a Sunday cruise in our daily driver pickup....

BangShift Question of the Day: Do You Have a Personalized License Plate?

We were out on a Sunday cruise this past weekend and saw a bunch of personalized license plates adorning everything from street rods to weenie hybrids. Some were good (like the one in the lead photo)...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Keystone Nationals Truck and Tractor Pull

We’ve been all over the country already today with event and show galleries, and now we’re headed north to Pennsylvania. This is a gallery of photos from the 2011 Keystone Nationals...

Collection Gallery: The Jim Henderson Collection – Mobile, Alabama

BangShift member Charles Schryver has a bad ass little six cylinder Falcon. He’s also a member of the Falcon Club of America which was having their Southern Regional meeting in Pensacola,...