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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Factory Hemi Superbird Feature Video: This 1,500-Mile HEMI Superbird Has SERIOUS Drag Racing History!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it and in this video below you are going to get a look at an awesome 1970 Plymouth Superbird that came from the factory with the famed 426 Hemi under...

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This 700HP, LS7 Powered 3rd Gen Camaro Restomod Is Something Special! What A Beast!

I’m a Camaro guy. I know people know me for wagons and mini trucks and whatever but I grew up in a Camaro family, my first car was a Camaro, and I love them. My favorites are first Gens like my...

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Street Car Takeover Atlanta: They Turned a NASCAR Speedway into a NO PREP Track And The Action Was Awesome!

Street Car Takeover in Atlanta was a huge event and the racing action on pit lane of the Super Speedway was hot and heavy. We’ve been doing the same thing at LSFest Texas for the last few...

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SEMA Sneak Peek Video of GM’s SEMA 2010 Display Vehicles

GM has let us have a sneak peek at some of the cars and trucks debuting at SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week, and lucky for us it’s on video. BangShift.com will be at SEMA all week to bring you...

Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video

If you are going to be in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area this weekend, you are going to want to keep your Friday night open for the Detroit Speed Open House and BBQ. Just a hop, skip, and a jump...

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eBay Find: A Real Deal Steel 1948 Austin Gasser

If you’re in the market for a gasser project, we’ve found the perfect starting place for you. This 1948 Austin is a legit gasser built in the 1960s by a group of buddies in California and...

The Antique Automobile Club of America Museum

Joe Grippo’s photo galleries from Hershey, Pennsylvania, have covered every facet of the automotive hobby, and we are blown away by the shear number of cars that were on hand at the famed...

Event Coverage: Lehigh Valley Regional Shelby American Automobile Club

The Shelby American Automobile Club holds shows all over the country and the world, but when they decided to hold a “Mini Meet” at the site of the 2010 AACA Hershey Show, Joe Grippo...

SEMA 2010 Sneak Peek: Mopar brings the heat

Chrysler announced today that they are bringing horsepower, and plenty of it, to SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week. Were you expecting Fiats with little engines? It wouldn’t have surprised us...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Super Cool 1958 Chevy Apache Kustom

Kustoms tend to split people right down the middle of love and hate. We’re not particularly cultured in the tastes and trends of todays kustom realm, but this truck really turns our crank. Done...

Shop Tour: We visit with Ridetech in Jasper Indiana

Everybody knows the name Ridetech, manufacturers of some of the finest suspension systems on the market, but most of you have never gotten the chance to visit them at their headquarters and...

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme vs. Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. It’s Match Race Madness

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen have one of the fiercest and well publicized rivalries in racing history. And while Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and...

Event Coverage: 643 Photos from the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania

As BangShifter Joe Grippo put it, the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania is one of the most eclectic and diverse car shows around. From Hemi ‘Cudas to Duesenbergs, you’ll see it...

BangShift Approved: The Santa Ana Drags 1950-1959

The grass on the other side of the fence, drag racing days gone by, and pre smog years are just some of the things we humans, and hot rodders always seem to long for. And so in the spirit of those...

Video: The Winged Express pulls off its craziest burnout yet!

Wild Willie Borsch and his famed Winged Express Fuel Altered were always known for smokey, sidewall deflecting, sideways burnouts, so it’s only fitting that the legend continues today. At this...

Video: Bill Caswell to Build Baja BMW at SEMA, We Help

Our rally pal Bill Caswell, of BMW jumping, crashing, and hooning fame will be at the 2010 SEMA show in the Miller booth. Caswell will be transforming a BMW into a Baja 1000 competition vehicle which...

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Car Show Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Auto Club Cruise, Foxboro, Massachusetts

We’ve been semi-regular visitors to the Mass Cruisers humongous car show that runs on a bi-weekly schedule at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Most recently, after a...