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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Killer Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Gives a Tour of the Four-Engine Showboat Dragster

Tommy Ivo’s four-engine Showboat dragster remains one of the most audacious and incredible pieces of machinery to ever assault the drag strip. At first glance it seems about as complex as a...

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Craigslist Find: Goliath’s Long Lost Ford Brother

As our in house Project Goliath gains popularity and infamy across the web, we’re getting more and more stuff sent to us regarding old medium and heavy duty trucks. Purchasing this totally...

Project Goliath Update: We Sort of Rebuilt the 292ci Six, It Runs

We know that the coil is mounted wrong, the spark plugs are only in hand tight, and the vacuum lines are routed like some sort of Chinese maze, but Goliath lives once again! Our big 1966 Chevy C50...

Epically Awesome Video: Firing Up a Twin Engine Nitro Harley In the Driveway

We’ve found a new personal gearhead hero. Whoever this guy is, he rules. Anyone who can claim ownership of a twin-engine, Harley-powered nitro bike is already walking among titans, but to have...

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Firebird Raceway is Resurfacing Its Track to the Tune of $200K

After suffering from a problem filled early season that culminated with an NHRA national event that one drag racing journalist dubbed, “The Disaster Nationals,” Firebird International...

Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo, Norm Weekly, and One Bad Ass Bucket

It’s a rare video that manages to tell the personal story of someone you’ve never met and keep you riveted to the screen. We caught wind of this piece of YouTube awesomeness through a tip...

Hot Selling Camaro Makes for Good Times at GM Oshawa, Ontario, Plant

Employees at GM’s Oshawa, Ontario assembly plant have good reason to be happy. Because of the new Camaro and a couple of other strong selling models, they have the one thing that auto industry...

The Greatest $250.00 Craigslist Find Ever

While it may seem that we’re all work and no play here at BangShift.com, we entertain ourselves just like every other greasy gearhead out there. We troll for deals all over the place and...

AutoTrader Classics Find: A 1990 Lamborghini LM002

With only 301 examples produced over a seven year run, you may have never seen a Lamborghini LM002 SUV before. The good news is that once you lay eyes on one, even concentrated acid won’t wash...

Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air

This is a pulling event we have to try! It takes place on asphalt and is completely basic in nature. There’s a sled with concrete blocks chained to a truck and the truck’s job is to drag...

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RacingJunk Find: A ’56 Pontiac Chieftain Drag Car

After seeing all that cool stuff at the Hunnert Car Shootout, we decided to go looking for an awesome, old school racer for ourselves. We piled through all sorts of ’55 through ’57...

Monday Time Killer: The Mother Load of Info on 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC Trucks

We’re not going to say that 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC trucks are unloved, but we will say that they are under-loved when compared to trucks of the previous generation and the following 1967-1972...

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...