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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution

When the Comp Performance Group brought back the Racing Head Service RHS brand, the aftermarket, and Car Junkies world wide, were excited to hear that a brand name associated with killer performance...

The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina

We realize that this is completely random, but we simply had to post this photo. The picture turned up in our forum section when a discussion thread made a left hand turn into van-ville. The fact...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Northeast Motorsports Expo – Philadelphia, PA

Indoor car shows and expos keep northern BangShifters from going completely insane during the icy clutches of winter. Recently, Joe Grippo hit the 2011 Motorsports Show held annually in Philadelphia,...

BangShift Question of the Day: Is This Honda Cool?

Honest question, is this Honda cool? The little Civic has a turbo and intercooler hanging off the front of it, has big drag slicks fitted to the front end and it shoots fire like a mother. Kevin...

Photo of the Day: Wretched Excess in the Flesh

Well, we started today with an Econoline that had a small block Ford hanging out of the bed and we’ll end it with another small block Ford, this time spilling out of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor....

BangShift Project Spotlight: Plugging a Vortec 350 Into a 2000 Chevy S-10 Xtreme

If you’re a funny car driver who works at a high performance machine shop and your daily driver truck takes a dump, simply fixing it is not an option. Such was the case with our pal Jon Wall,...

RideTech’s Final Barrett Jackson Update: Velocity Sells, Brett Looks Ahead to the Future

After working right up until the last minute to make sure that the 1967 Velocity Camaro did as well as it could on the auction block, Brett Voekel of RideTech took a few minutes and captured his...

eBay Find: A Mechanically Pornographic 1966 Econoline Truck

Oh this 1966 Ford Econoline is 100% BangShift approved! It has a bruised up nose, a spartan interior, and a rear mounted 302 V8 that spins an automatic transmission which is hooked to a chain drive...

Awesome Wheelstand Video: A Fiat-Bodied Altered Gets All Four Tires Off the Ground In Super Slo-Mo

Big time wheelstand videos are always favorites of ours. The may be the best one ever though. Filmed at Santa Pod Raceway in England, it features an altered that wears a Fiat body. The car starts to...

GM Performance Parts Announces the 2011 LSX Challenge Series

GM Performance Parts has announced the creation of the LSx Challenge Series, a four race points style drag racing series that will pit racers running factory LS or GMPP LSx engines against each other...

RideTech Velocity Camaro Auctioned for 155K, Read an Awesome Recap of Auction Week With Tons of Photos

One of the busiest and most hectic weeks in the life of RideTech’s commandant, Brett Voekel has ended. Brett shepherded the awesome “Velocity” 1967 Camaro through the auction...

Nutso Racing Video: Roto-Tiller Drags From Arkansas

This is not anything like you expect it to be. This is not video of 2mph rototillers creeping along. Instead this is video of a truly wild event featuring (and we know this sounds totally insane)...

BangShift Poll Question: Did You Watch the Barrett Jackson Auction?

We’ve invested in some snappy polling software so we can run sweet polls on the blog here at BangShift. You don’t need to be a member or anything, just hit the jump to see the poll and...

Guerrilla Auction Gallery: Photos from both Barrett Jackson and the Russo and Steele 2011 auctions

Last weekend was the yearly Arizona automotive auction orgy. Barrett Jackson went down and the Russo and Steele auction also happened. Luckily for us, BangShifter Remy-Z hit both events and he had...