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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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Great Read: Tommy Ivo’s Tow Rig History

Tommy Ivo is rightfully known as drag racing’s first great showman. He had awesome looking cars that ran up to their appearance, and even his towing equipment was top shelf. He understood that...

BangShift Approved: New Jegs Practice Tree Iphone App

We don’t normally get excited over iPhone apps and the like, but in this case we wish we had an iPhone to install one on. Jegs High Performance Mail-Order has come up with an app every racer...

Epic Crane Fail Video: Crane Drops Another Crane

Driving a crane must be cool, but as this video will show, there are certainly risks both physical and financial. In this clip, you’ll see a huge crane lifting a smaller road going crane with...

eBay Find: An Old and Rare Hone Overdrive Unit

While proud BangShift sponsor Gear Vendors is the undisputed champion of overdrive units these days, there were some companies that attempted to produce similar, albeit much cruder examples in the...

Event Coverage: NHRA Motorsports Museum Twilight Cruise August 2010

The monthly Twilight Cruise at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is a must see show in Southern California, and we know it. We also know that a ton of you guys hate us for having a dozen other...

Breaking News: BangShift Welcomes Snooky’s Vintage Originals as a Sponsor

BangShift.com is incredibly proud to announce that Snooky’s Vintage Originals has joined our family of sponsors. Snooky’s is THE place to score killer drag racing and hot rod themed...

Guerilla Shop Tour: Chuck’s Classic Cars, AKA Mopar Heaven

When our pal Matt Graves at Cherry Bomb told us that he was stopping by a shop and was going to send us some photos we were excited to see the photos. When we actually saw what was at this place, we...

Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes

The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...

Drag Gallery: A Day at the Digs from Houston Motorsports Park

Our Texas based photo correspondent Charles Wickam has been a busy dude. Recently he went and took a shop tour at the School of Automotive Machinists and he also attended the drags at Houston...

American Thunder Video: A 1964 Fairlane 500 Hauls Ass on the ‘Ring

This is some of the greatest footage we’ve ever seen. This is video of a (modern) Holman Moody built 1964 Fairlane 500 being raced in Germany on the famed Nurburgring. It is in some sort of...

Resto of NASCAR 1965 Impala Proceeds at Amazing Pace

We admire guys who take on a project and then really get after it. They have the car blown apart within a week and progress gets made on a day to day basis. That’s a skill set we haven’t...

The Top 11: Best Foreign Cars to Swap Domestic V8 Grunt Into

The AC Ace would probably be little more than another entry on a list of obscure British cars if it hadn’t been for Carroll Shelby’s decision to buy them in bulk and stuff Ford motors...

Caption This Photo: Charles Sleeping on the Job Again

A few weeks back we showed you a photo of our photo contributor Charles Wickam sleeping on the wall at Bowling Green’s Beech Bend Raceway. What we failed to tell you was that there was another...

New Parts: FAST LSXr 102MM Intake Manifold For LS3 Engines

Got yourself a rectangle port LS3-style motor? Looking for a hot intake manifold to boost your power? FAST has just released the right thing for you. Their new LSXr 102mm intake manifold has proven...