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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Inaugural Fendt High Stakes Pulling Event Kicks Off This Weekend! Night 1 and 2 – Dragway 42

Truck and Tractor pulling, like most racing formats, have advanced dramatically in the last few years and that has made the competition at events even closer and closer. This weekend the first, of...

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IHRA Pro Mod Mania Invades Milan Michigan’s Darana Dragway! Huge Purse, Killer Pro Mod and Sportsman Action!

This weekend the International Hot Rod Association visits Milan Michigan for Pro Mod Mania at Darana Dragway which features an insane purse and tons of great racing action. With a total purse of...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 RACE DAY – TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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This Might Be The Most Insane JDM Wheel Collection Ever, And Larry Chen Found It By Accident. Check It Out!

I own just two vehicles that are not Chevrolets, and those two are both Japanese imports. They are my 1985 Mitsubishi Mighty Max and my 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback. And while my plan is to build the...

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How To Make New Wheels Look Like Old Steelies, With A Twist! A New Way Of Doing Things!

For several years there have been people using custom bolt on adapters to mount dog dish hubcaps onto Weld Draglite wheels, and while it sounds weird, it really does work. The dog dish caps cover the...

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Killer Drag Video: An Interview With Nitro-Shoe Mendy Fry Circa 1987!

Mendy Fry is one of the most sought after nostalgia nitro pilots in the world today. She’s in the Nostalgia Top Fuel 250mph club, has run down into the 5.80s in a nostalgia nitro flopper, and...

Tech: The BangShift 700-R4 Rebuild Part 4

Jeff Bradley is back with the fourth installment of how to properly rebuild at 700-R4 transmission. This is literally a blow by blow, step by step account of how to replace every part in the...

Camaro Wrests Sales Lead Back From Mustang

Like a pair of heavyweight prize fighters trading blows, the Camaro and Mustang continue to fight for sales and performance supremacy here in America. According to the dudes at Camaro5.com, 6,321...

It Came From the Forums: Photo Coverage of the 2010 Frog Follies Pre-’49 Car Show

Indiana-based BangShift member Drew recently attended the Frog Follies car show in Evansville, Indiana. This event is billed as the largest pre-49 car show on Earth and draws more than 4,000 cars!...

Project Goliath Update: Piddly Projects, Plodding Progress

It has been too long since we brought you any information on progress with our 1966 C50 called Goliath. The main reason is that there hasn’t been too much sexy stuff happening. We’re at...

Video: The Shortest Jump in the Biggest Truck

Recently the story of a security guard beating on a brand new Corvette ZR-1 has been sweeping around the internet. Not surprisingly, the guy is being hailed as a dumbass for not only flogging the...

Camaro Makes European Racing Debut at Nurburgring, Runs Strong

The latest Chevy Camaro, which has been seeing action on American race tracks for some time now  recently started turning tires in European road racing action. The Dutch GT4 team, Equipe...

eBay Find: The World’s Most Awesome 1976 Mercury Comet

There were few more depressingly awful cars produced by Detroit in the mid-1970s than the wheezing, homely, 1976 Mercury Comet. It was a far cry from the hot little number that the Comet once was....

Killer Video: Plymouth Roadrunner Ads

Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be...

Question of the Week: What’s Your Most Trusty Mechanical Companion?

If you’re a gearhead, chances are that you surround yourself with different machines, tools, gadgets, and equipment. Some of that stuff has probably been around you for a while, rescued you...

Auto Trader Classics Find: Bob Tullius’s 1984 Jaguar IMSA GTP Racer

Bob Tullius is an American road racing legend. He competed in everything from the snappy little Dodge Darts he ran in the early days of Trans-Am to the infamous Grey Ghost LeMans and all kinds of...

Event Gallery: New England Dragway’s 2010 Dragin’ in the ’50s Show

We were in the mood to see some neato nostalgia drag racing recently, so we gave our wife the day off, loaded up the kiddos and headed to the local strip. Luckily for us, New England Dragway was...

Event Coverage: 4th Annual Burbank Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show with Cacklefest Video

The 4th Annual Burbank, California, Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show was a big hit on August 28th, 2010. The Masonic Lodge of Burbank puts on the show every year, with all proceeds going to support...

Moral of the Story: Put a Fire Extinguisher in Your Hot Rod!

Erv Julien, the owner of the Ford involved in the car-b-que happening in the lead photo of this blog item, is lucky to be alive, but he was unlucky enough to watch his otherwise bitchin’ 1934...