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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 Qualifier—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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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 1 and 2 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat....

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The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

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RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

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Historic Carnage Video: Major Wreckage On the Old Beach Course At Daytona

We unearthed this radical ancient video of Modified jalopies whooping it up on the Daytona Beach circle track in the late ’40s or early ’50s. These guys really thrashed the cars, almost...

Event Coverage: The 2010 Hunnert Car Shootout from Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove, Wisconsin

The Chrome Czars car club of Chicago put on the second annual Hunnert Car Shootout. These are the same guys who host and run the humongo Hunnert Car Pileup retro-rod show. Think of this as a...

The Parting Shift: Stretching the Legs of a Dual Quad 1964 Buick Wildcat

This week’s Parting Shift is a change of pace. We’re stepping away from the race track and all the transmission violence in favor of some good old fashioned muscle getting a leg stretch....

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Crazy Video: An Alky-Burning Drag Race Lawn Tractor

You’d laugh at us if we told you that there are lunatics out there racing 100hp, alky burning, two-step equipped lawn tractors. Impossible, right? Wrong. The escaped mental patient driving the...

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NHRA Unleashed Teams Up with ORSCA

NHRA has teamed up with the Outlaw Racing Street Car Association to solidify the racing operations end of the new “NHRA Unleashed” series. This four-race series will feature heads-up...

Fuego Video: Little Car, Big Flames

After getting all nostalgic for LACR we decided to go hunting for some cool video action from the track. Unfortunately we only got as far as the staging lanes. This video shows a cool old Lloyd that...

Will A Mega-Strip Replace The Void Left by the Closing of Los Angeles County Raceway?

While it is always great news to hear of new drag strips being proposed in California, our happiness is tempered by the bleak track record of such projects in recent history. The latest project that...

Craigslist Find: A Nicely Done 1989 Cammer-motored ‘Stang

We’re starting to come around to the whole, “stick a DOHC Cobra motor in a Fox-bodied Mustang” thing. Even if just for the crowd reactions at car shows and the strip, it’s...

Speedway Motorsports Announces First Quarter Earnings

It’s safe to say that the racetrack business is still profitable, but not as much as it was in 2009. Speedway Motorsports Inc, otherwise known as O. Bruton Smith’s company, made a pile of...

Ridetech Announces Cool Power Tour Shirt Offer

The boys at Ridetech are at it again! If you’ve been around BangShift.com since we first launched you know that Ridetech has been with us from the get go. They’re always thinking up and...

NHRA Says Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Still on For Beech Bend Raceway

The NHRA has announced that the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is still on for Father’s Day weekend and will be held at the currently submerged Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green,...

Weirdly Cool Video: A Monster Truck Event in Time Lapse Photography

We admire people with artistic talent and vision. Since ours kind of stunted after we were introduced to finger painting, it’s our sworn duty to highlight the works of people who do neat stuff....

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Carnage Video: Mustang Pole Vault Attempt

Let’s face it, we are at the dragstrip more than anyone but the touring pros, so it only makes sense that we’ve seen a lot of funny and weird things go down while at the track. One that...

Indiana State Troopers Get Hemi-fied

In what seems to be a growing trend among police forces across the country, the Indiana State Police have opted to purchase a bunch of Dodge Charger police package cars for their officers. The...