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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(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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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Killer Vintage Drag Video: Original Footage of Classic Wheel-Standers In Action

Confession time. We freaking love wheel-standers. Many hardcore drag race guys like to talk smack about jet cars and wheel-standers as being circus acts or somehow inferior to “real” race...

Five Women Will Try to Qualify for the 2010 Indy 500

There will be five women racing drivers among the scads of hopefuls, trying to fight their way into the 2010 Indy 500 starting grid. Danica Patrick is the clear headliner, she being the highest...

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...