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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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Hinson Motorsport’s Corvette Crashes at 230 during the Texas Mile

Let’s get a couple things straight right off the bat. We dig the stuff that Hinson Motorsports does, and we love landspeed racing events like the Texas Mile. With that said, this video really...

BangShift Poll: Do You Love or Hate NHRA Four Wide Drag Racing?

Last weekend the NHRA held the first of their two yearly “Four Wide Nationals” at the palatial zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Some people really dig the idea of four wide...

BangShift Garage of the Week: Joe Grippo’s Awesome 1970 Mach 1 Mustang

If you have been a BangShift reader for any stretch of time, you recognize the name Joe Grippo. Joe’s a drag race and general gearhead fiend who hits a ton of events every year, with his camera...

Event Gallery: Mud Drags Action From Texas

Last weekend our intrepid Texas photo master, Charles Wickam snuck through a hole in the fence and photographed a pretty bitchin’ looking mud drag race event down near where he lives. Between...

Racing Junk Find: An Ultra Rare and Ultra Fast 1968 Plymouth GTX With Factory Hemi Power

Just yesterday we took our first ride of the year in our father in law’s Plymouth GTX. That particular car sports a 440 and an automatic, unlike this machine we found for sale on Racing Junk....

Car Feature & Video Re-Run: Gary and Pam Beineke’s Serpent SRT-71 Dodge Charger

We featured several cars from the collection of Gary and Pam Beineke in 2009. Gary and Pam have made a name for themselves in the Mopar community by creating so-called, “what if?” cars....

EuroDragster.com to Provide FREE Live Streaming Video From England’s Santa Pod Raceway This Weekend!

Our pal Tog, over at Eurodragster, Europe’s leading source for drag racing news and information, told us that they will be doing a live webcast from historic Santa Pod Raceway in England, this...

BangShift Rolls Out New and Improved Forum Section!

Yeah,yeah we know. Something can’t be both, “new” and “improved”  but it just sounds right. Our new forum section is live and humming along with dedicated...

Quick Peek: A 572ci, 1130hp, Naturally Aspirated Kaase Big Block Ford Powered 2004 Mustang Mach 1

We’ve been spending a fair amount of time at our local neighborhood chassis shop, Tube Chassis Designz lately. Jon and his crew have been replacing the cab floors in Goliath, and recently we...

Historic Drag Video: Footage From the Long Dead Golden Triangle Drag Strip

Golden Triangle Drag Strip, which was located just outside of Beaumont, Texas, has been dead for years. The former air strip is now crossed over by a highway, and serves as the backdrop of a little...

eBay Find: A Blown, Pro Street Lil Red Express Dodge Truck (With Video)

Oh hells yes. Our general fondness for the late 1970s Dodge specialty trucks like the “Lil’ Red Express” had us searching the hallowed halls of eBay for one a short while back. The...

BangShift Project Car: Chad’s Reher Morrison Powered Nova Rebuild Starts Now

BangShift.com has two in-house Chevrolet Nova project cars, and they should be called Yin and Yang. You see, “Yin”, owned by Bob Lohnes, father of my intrepid partner in crime Brian...

BangShift.com to Undergo Major Forum Section Upgrade on Wednesday and Thursday

Over a year ago, we decided that our rapidly growing forum section needed to be upgraded and modified to better suit hardcore BangShift members. The time for that much needed upgrade his finally...

Chadmouth Poll: Road Tripping Your Hot Rod Rules! How many states have you hit?

With rare exception, your hot rod started out as a mode of daily transportation. I know, I know, some of you think they are ONLY there to look at and this realization may be a bit of a shocker for...