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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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See All the BangShift.com Photos and Videos of 2010 Bonneville Speed Week Here

BangShift.com is all over the 2010 Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats. We are bringing you photo and video coverage all week long, so come back regularly for updates and results, as we’re...

The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.

As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...

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Dumbass Alert: Thieves Use Bulldozer to Steal ATM, Lose ATM

The media is always so inaccurate. When we saw the headline that thieves had used a “bulldozer” to steal an ATM in Detroit we were expecting to see a Caterpillar D8 in the middle of a...

Virtual Reality: Incredible Engine Renderings From Cosworth

The name Cosworth conjures up images of Formula One cars screaming around European road courses. It also conjures up the name of the rare Vega model that used an engine topped with a cylinder head...

Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price

Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...

Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage

With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds hurtling east to attack the salt with wall to wall coverage courtesy of Spectre Performance this year, we thought we’d remind you of all the greatness that...

Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes

Aeromotive has once again changed the fuel system game with the introduction of their Stealth System for 2003 1/2 and up Corvettes. This is a complete drop in fuel system that slides right into the...

Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon

We’re getting into Bonneville mode already as Speed Week has already gotten off the ground with tech inspection yesterday. We were planning on finding some clapped out junk Bonneville for Chad...

Barnstormin’: It’s About the Show, Stupid

With the recent announcement that New England Dragway will be leaving the IHRA to race under the NHRA banner in 2011, I’ve been thinking a lot about the format change that IHRA made coming into...

EcoRace: Roush Yates to Hot Rod EcoBoost V6 Engines for American LeMans Series

When Ford’s EcoBoost turbo V6 engine hit the shelves and dealerships, we were wondering if it would gain any traction as a racing engine at some point. It makes great power from the factory and...

Video Bonanza: Fun With Military Deuce and a Half 6×6 Trucks

The M35 family of trucks that have been serving the military for decades certainly do not get the amount of love that the little WWII-era Jeeps get with respect to their vital role in the service,...

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Fact or Fiction? The Man Who Owned (and Drove) His Rolls For 82 Years

We received an e-mail the other day that told the story of a man named Allen Swift from Springfield, Massachusetts, who supposedly received a brand new 1928 Rolls Royce from his pop as a graduation...

Power Plants: Ford Rolls Out Four New Engines for F-150

Ford has announced a completely new engine lineup for the 2011 F-150. The engines range from the twin-turbo EcoBoost six cylinder to the rompin’ stompin’ 411hp 6.2L engine that was first...

eBay Find: An $11,000 Renault Alliance

When we plugged “Renault” into the search line on eBay we figured that an old 2CV or some other oddity would pop up. We figured wrong. The highest price item carrying the Renault tag on...