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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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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

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

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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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More 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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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our Final Day 1 Racing Gallery from 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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Crane Cams is back and bigger and better than ever before.

After a dramatic 2009 that found all their assets for sale on the auction block, Crane Cams rose from the ashes like a Phoenix and spent 2010 dusting themselves off and getting back to work. The...

Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip

This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers...

eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt

One of the most infamous car and engine combinations in the history of drag racing was the deadly match of a Chrysler Hemi and the tiny Dodge Colt in the early 1970s. Prompted by the ass kicking laid...

New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle

Dick Maskin and the rest of the Dart team are back at it with even more great SHP combos for both Ford and Chevy fans. With 427 cubic inches of small block power available for the Blue Oval and...

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...