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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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The Top 10 Reasons You Need to Attend the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion

October 21-23 are the dates for the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion, held at Famoso Raceway, in Bakersfield, California. This is one of the premier nostalgia drag races in the world and the...

Cool Vintage Army Training Video: Missile Men – A Look at the Dawn of the Guided Missile Age

We have proclaimed ourselves history dweebs many times here on the electronic pages of BangShift, so it should come as no surprise that we’ve dug up a killer old Army video that is quite...

Blastolene’s Latest Build: The Decoliner – Flash Gordon’s Motorhome

The latest build from the fertile mind of Randy Grubb and the Blastolene stable is called the Decoliner and it is a wild motorhome that looks as though it belongs in a Flash Gordon movie. Starting...

Cruise Gallery: The Hot Rod Magazine Cruise Night – El Segundo, California

Scott Liggett, our man on the scene in Southern California recently took in the monthly Hot Rod Magazine Cruise night, held on the last Friday of the month at the Automobile Driving Museum in El...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Geneva Concours d’Elegance – Geneva, Illinois

Normally with the words Concours d’Eelgance are thrown around, visions of important people dressed in dumb clothing gawking at old foreign cars come to mind. In the case of the...

Roadside Find: A 1964 White Cab Over Semi Truck Still On the Job!

Yesterday, we decided to play storm chaser with the family and headed down to the ocean to see all of hurricane Irene’s fury. Well, the storm was built up to be this near doomsday event in New...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Wheels of Time Rod and Custom Jamboree – Macungie, PA

For 33 years the Wheels of Tim Rod and Custom Jamboree has been taking place. This year, one of our Pennsylvanian photo dudes, Doug Garrison hit the show with his camera and sent us back more than...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Cruise – Kemah, Texas

Charles Wickam, our talented embedded Texas BangShift photographer has been laying low as of late. The oppressive summer heat in Texas tends to slow the scene down for a couple months. Now that it...

Introducing Project Brutus – Our Totally Sweet 1968 C50 Wrecker!

Well, I’m doing it wrong again. After bringing my 1966 Chevy C50 Goliath back to life and spending all summer running around in it, I’ve really grown to love the big lug. That’s why...

Fun Video: The General Lee and The Bandit Firebird In a High Speed Chase!

In the realm of fantasy car chases there isn’t a match up cooler than this one! The guys over at Hot Rod Magazine got a General Lee and a Bandit Firebird together for a good old fashion romp...

eBay Find: A Cool Straight Axle 1964 Plymouth Valiant

Normally when thoughts drift to the genre of straight axle drag cars, we’re talking Willys, Henry Js, and ’55-’57 Chevrolets. Not this time though. We were tipped off to a very cool...

BangShift Project Car Video Update: Awesome Video of an 8-Second 1968 Impala From England

Talk about large and in charge! BangShift member NeverAgain recently began sharing photos of his totally kick ass 1968 Chevy Impala drag car. This monster has a big block Chevy in it and goes 8.80s,...

Big Show Gallery: 2011 Goodguys East Coast Nationals – Rhinebeck, NY

Back in June, the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association held the 20th annual East Coast Nationals in Rhinebeck, NY. Doug Garrison who has been pummeling us with photos, sent us nearly 200 from one of...

Killer Historic Stunt Video: The Astro Spiral Jump Circa 1972!

Yesterday we asked what the coolest car related stunt you’ve ever seen was. One reader tipped us off to a rather legendary jump made back in 1972. Using the appropriate AMC Javelin, American...