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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Event Did Not Disappoint! Check Out All The Cool Photos That Mike Brooks Got Us!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) The Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina celebrated it’s 37th anniversary this year and as usual had a sellout crowd. This show sells out every year,...

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Our Final Gallery Of IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT!

Here’s our final gallery of IHRA Outlaw Nitro photos from Galot, but if you missed any of the previous photos we’ve got a link to them below. (Photos by David Whealon) If you live under...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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SHADYSIDE OUTLAWS APRIL 2026: THIS OUTLAW SMALL TIRE SHOOTOUT SETS THE LIST! SEE WHO MAKES THE CUT!

Shadyside Outlaws is back for 2026 and that means it is time to set the list for Outlaw Small Tire, and that means it is shootout time. Check out the video from our friends at Spoold Media and let us...

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The 2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Television Show Airs Tonight!

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge is truly the premier competition amongst the best Pro Touring cars in the country, and the world. Taking place each year, the weekend after the SEMA show...

AFCO Racing Joins the BangShift Sponsor Family

We are proud and honored to announce that AFCO Racing, one of the most diversified companies in the high performance aftermarket has joined on as a sponsor of BangShift.com. With product lines...

Painful Fail Video: A Snowmobile Crosses a Creek and Eats a Tree

Here’s a video that shows how one can go from hero to bone crushing failure in about half a second. In the film, you’ll see a snowmobile launch off to skip across a creek somewhere out in...

Awesome Roadside Find: A Stepside Cadillac Eldorado

Intrepid BangShift reader Eagle Kammback was cruising the streets in his native New Jersey when he came upon what may be the single greatest roadside find in the history of the internet. This is an...

Video: A Fuel Injected Pro Stock Hemi Tuning Session on Ray Barton’s Dyno

We teased you the other day with a short video of an 1100hp full race Hemi screaming into the night through the exhaust system of the dyno at Ray Barton Racing Engines, now here’s the whole...

New Jersey Motorsports Park Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

These are tough times to be running a race track in. Recently, the operators of New Jersey Motorsports Park, a multi-use racing facility in Millville, NJ declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to...

Stop and Gawk: Header Flaming Wheelstand Drag Race Photo Coolness

Kevin Blalock’s photos have appeared on the pages of BangShift before, but they have always shown cars exploding, on fire, or barfing parts. This time he sent one along that is just pure...

Racing Junk Find: A Beautiful Bonneville Racer 1955 Chevy

While there are probably a number of practical racing arguments against owning this absolutely awesome 1955 Chevy LSR machine, the non-practical reasons for owning it number in the thousands. The...

Bitchin’ Old Video: A Collection of 1936 Chevrolet Newsreels

Old promotional newsreel films are always a gas. This collection of Chevrolet-centric films from 1936 does not disappoint. There’s a bevy of bathing beauties using the car as a water slide and...

Robby Gordon Placed on Indefinite Probation by NASCAR

Robby Gordon, the multi-faceted driver that sees action in NASCAR, off road, and open wheel racing has been placed on “indefinite probation” by NASCAR officials after an scrum with his...

New Video From the Best Engine Explosion Ever, HD Detail of The Exploded Mill!

A short while back, we found video of the Never Satisfied pulling tractor exploding and launching the engine right out of it’s chassis. We were actually the first people to post that video and...

Tune In: Captain Jack McClure to Appear on the Wally Bell Show Tonight!

Captain Jack McClure one of the craziest guys we’ve ever had the chance to interview and feature here on BangShift.com, and the driver of the insane rocket powered go kart drag strip terror of...

Sayonara Saleen Mustang – Production to Close This Summer

t is the end of an era. For the first time since the early 1980s there won’t be a Saleen Mustang next year, hell, there won’t be a new one by the end of this summer. Revstone Industries,...

Reader Show Gallery: The 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars – Hamburg, NY

BangShift reader Jays67 answered our call to BangShifters when we asked for photos from car shows, drag races, or any BangShifty event that our readers attend. In Jay’s case it was the 2011...