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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got 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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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

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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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

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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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at 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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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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Cool New Product: New ’40 Ford Bodies From Drake Reproductions

The 1940 Ford is a totally iconic car in the world of hot rodding. From the era of the bootlegger running ‘shine through the back woods with a muscled up flattie to the gasser era at drag...

Incredible Wreck Video: In Car With Danny Thompson When His Mustang Flies at 260mph!

This is some amazing footage. We’re riding along with Danny Thompson in his Mustang as he hauls the mail down the Bonneville Salt Flats. Things are going along really well until he crests...

SEMA 2010: The Ugly, the Bad and the Totally Tasteless

As we finally begin to run out of photos and stuff related to the 2010 SEMA show, we thought that showing you the underbelly of the experience was necessary. For every totally bitchin’ car at...

Racing Junk Find: The Craziest Freaking Project We Have Ever Seen

We were happily searching RacingJunk recently when we navigated into the exhibition drag racing vehicle section. We expected a jet car, wheelstander, or some other vehicle along those lines. Instead...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s More Fun?

We’ve been thinking of something since we departed Las Vegas last week. The question that has been running through our feeble mind is pretty basic. It actually cuts right down to the core of...

Barnstormin’: My Top 10 Favorite Cars and Trucks from SEMA 2010

With about a week to reflect on it and literally thousands of photos to pile through, I thought it would be a peachy time to glue together my top 10 favorite vehicles from the 2010 SEMA show. It...

Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard

Since you’ve just checked out the gallery dedicated to the residents at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor, NJ, we thought that we should show you the other 250 photos from the 2010...

Junkyard Gallery: A Look at Fleming’s Junkyard in New Jersey

Intrepid BangShift photo contributor Joe Grippo recently attended the infamous Pumpkin Run car show which takes place in the totally awesome Fleming’s Junkyard located in Egg Harbor, NJ. He...

BangShift Book Review: Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers

If you are a fan or collector of old car magazines, this is one that needs to hit your shelf in a hurry. Hot Rod: All the Covers by Drew Hardin and the editors of Hot Rod Magazine tells the tale of...

SEMA 2010 Question: Crazy or Cool?

Would you buy or build your kid a half scale monster truck? While junior dragsters, quarter midgets, and small racing karts have a cute factor, this Baby Huey has a fright factor. As you can see by...

Great Read: Proving That Drag Racing is the World’s Loudest Sport

Bangshifters certainly know that nitromethane powered drag racing vehicles are the most bone chattering loud cars on Earth. Others outside the realm of straight line fever don’t, however. ESPN...

SEMA Gallery: The Friday Afternoon Show Vehicle Exodus

One of the neater parts of the whole SEMA experience is watching the myriad of cars, trucks, race vehicles, hot rods, kustoms, and other SEMA show vehicles pour out of the Las Vegas Convention Center...

Not BangShift Approved: The Corvette Body Kit to End All Corvette Body Kits

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re dropping this on you. Yesterday we showed you the body kit to convert your 2010 Camaro into a 1969 “looking” Camaro,...

BangShift Approved: MIT Kids Build Space Camera For Pocket Change

One of life’s great ironies is that simple solutions to problems are often determined by brilliant people. Such was the case when two MIT kids came up with an idea for a cheap, and we mean...