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BLOOD WARZ AT THE ROCK! OUTLAW 275 DRAG RADIAL ACTION AT CAROLINA NT! ROCKINGHAM DRAGWAY!!

Rockingham Dragway’s Blood Warz presented by Carolina No Time is a heck of a race with tons of great racing action featuring all kinds of small tire classes. The Outlaw 275 class is clearly one of...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 NATIONAL HOT ROD REUNION! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check...

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More Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Speedway Motors, and if you missed any of the others we’ve got a link to those as well! (Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our First Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors headquarters in Lincoln, NE is right across the parking lot from the Museum Of American Speed. Together, they put on a cars and coffee gathering...

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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Show Gallery: The 2011 Lebanon Classic Car Show – Lebanon, PA

Doug Garrison is our newest photo contributor here at BangShift and he’s bringing the thunder with this awesome gallery from the recently completed Lebanon Classic Car show, held in the...

Toyota Unveils the Lamest Pace Car in the History of the Genre: Camry to Pace Field at 2012 Daytona 500

Someday when we’re old and puttering around with our fellow gearhead buddies the topic will turn to trivia and the question will be, “What was the lamest pace car of all time?” In...

KaBOOM Video: The Spectacular End to a Cummins Powered Dodge Pulling Truck

If truck pulling has an equivalent to cars like Larry Larson’s six second street legal Nova and other of that ilk, it’s the street legal pulling classes. With advancements in diesel...

Kyle Busch Loses License for 45-Days: Lawyer Mounts Nauseating Defense

Remember Kyle Busch’s 128mph blast down public roads behind the wheel of Toyota’s new LF-A sports car? The court system in North Carolina sure did and a judge handed down a sentence of 45...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Weirdest Engine Swap You’ve Ever Seen?

The engine swap is a tried and true part of hot rodding history. Back in the day, pulling the boat anchor six out of your father’s Chevy and slapping a Cad, Olds, or Buick motor in was hot...

Awesome Video: 27 Minutes Inside a Chevrolet Plant Circa 1936

Recently, a nine-minute video of life inside a Chevrolet plant in 1936 has been making the rounds on the internets. You know what we say about nine minute videos? Screw ’em! Why? Because...

Killer Cruise Gallery: The John Haines Collection and Cruise-In

As it turns out we weren’t the only ones in BangShift nation scoping out killer old trucks and equipment last week! Joe Grippo attended the John Haines Collection and Cruise-In which is a...

BangShift Question of the Day: Should “New” GM Be Responsible for Old GM’s Recall Repairs?

Recently, a lawsuit has brought to light an interesting situation facing General Motors. When the company went into bankruptcy in 2009, a new entity officially called, “New GM” came out...

Good News: Memphis International Raceway Opens For Weekly Racing Again!

Hold onto your hats, kids, we have good news for you! The track formerly known as Memphis Motorsports Park, now called Memphis International Raceway is alive once again. The track shut down after...

Hard Landing Video: What Happens When the Wheelie Bar Breaks While Launching Your Fuel Altered

Our pal Kyle Loftis was at the World Fuel Altered Nationals in Eddyville, Iowa last weekend. The event normally draws some of the wildest short wheelbase, front engined, nitro burning iron that North...

eBay Find: The Caresto T6 R – The Swedish-built 2004 Hot Rod of Year

In 2004, for the first time in history, a foreign built hot rod won the coveted Hot Rod of the Year award. That car, the Swedish fabricated Caresto T6 R is now for sale on eBay. The car was certainly...

Stroll Through a Texas Junkyard Via Bad Ass 360-degree Panormaic Photos

Denton, Texas is the home of a junkyard known as the CTC Auto Ranch. Chances are, you’ll never get to Denton, Texas, but we’ve got a way for you to look at lots of the inventory at this...

Cool Video: The Most Artistic Drag Racing Video We’ve Seen In a While

We’re usually bringing you videos of stuff wrecking, exploding, and generally self-destructing on the drag strip. Today, for this brief shining moment, we’re going uptown, kids! The guys...

Chadmouth: Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Can we do it again next week?

Bonneville. That single word makes anyone who has ever been fast, or dreamed of going fast, envision the mythical great white salt. It’s the unchecked box on more bucket lists than you can...