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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Power Tour Day 4 includes cars, fire, and meat. Well sorta…

Day 4 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour was event filled for the BangShift and Ridetech crews. We had a new group of cars coming in to finish the tour, 150 Forum Freaks to cook for, and...

Good News: It’s Not Just Americans Who Pay Stupid Money for Cars at Auction

Andrew Bogut is an Australian basketball player who pulls home serious coin as a starter for the Milwaukee Bucks. He’s also a car guy. Recently, he was at an auction and got into a bidding...

Ford Drag Team to be Featured at 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Ford formed their Drag Team in 1963 and in doing so stated their intentions to win the hearst and minds of hot rodders and horsepower obsessed kids on drag strips across America. Chrysler and GM soon...

Pat Musi Back in Action with NHRA This Weekend

Soft spoken New Jersey native Pat Musi will be racing this weekend at Englishtown at the NHRA SuperNationals. The last time Musi suited up at an NHRA national event he was racing in Pro Stock, now...

Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car

Our buddy Scott Clark, known as DieselGeek on the BangShift.com forums spends some of his free time tuning fuel injection setups on all different kinds of machinery. He’s messed around with...

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Coverage: First Annual BangShift.com Forum Freaks Bologna Bash

When Ridetech decided to partner with us here at BangShift.com, in an effort to support our own Forum Freaks during Hot Rod’s Power Tour, we all knew it was going to be a good time. And when we...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Evening Edition

    The Tuesday evening submissions are rolling in! There’s action at Beech Bend Raceway tonight with lots of Power Tour participants thrashing on their junk, the...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Busted Cars, Superman, and Deer Heads

    The hits just keep on coming! Tomfoolery and fun seemed to be the big theme of the photo submissions today as Power Tour participants made their way toward Bowling Green, Kentucky....

Event Coverage: Billetproof Texas 2010

We’re bringing you another monster gallery today, this one from Billetproof Texas 2010. These photos, like the cruise photos from earlier today were shot by our Texas rogue photo agent Charles...

Event Coverage: Sins of Steel 2010

Todd Ryden, our pal and one of the great dudes over at MSD Ignition attended the Sins of Steel show held in Davisburg, Michigan last weekend. This show was formerly known as Billetproof and was...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: One Dead Van….One Dead Matt?

    We received the following photos from an unnamed source on the Power Tour trail. They show the totally sweet Cherry Bomb Dodge Van on a trailer, and apparently, it ain’t coming...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise, June 2010

We’re going to assault your eyeballs with galleries today. Sure, the Power Tour is raging, but that doesn’t mean every hot rod in the world is on it! Out Texas photo maven Charles Wickam...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Drag Racing at I57, Americana, and Waffle Repellant

    The images from the front lines of the 2010 Power Tour are raining in hot and heavy tonight. With drag racing action happening at I57 dragway, some cool road side attractions, and a...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Cooked Spindles, Big Tires, and High Pants

      As the Power Tour rolls across America we’re getting cool and hilarious installments from Power Tour participants from the road. In this installment of our Guerilla Power...