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Drag Racing 2000hp Trucks UPHILL in SNOW! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? This Is Insane And Fun In All The Right Ways!

Ice and snow racing events just make me smile, but probably not for the reason you think. As awesome as these events are, and as cool as the race cars and trucks can be, it’s the people that...

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More of Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos: Door Cars, Floppers, Dragsters, And More!

(Photos by David Whealon) – NHRA Drag Racing at the Gatornationals was off the hook yet again in 2026! The week started with new drivers, crew chiefs, and teams, plus record breaking performances...

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Who Makes The Best Thermal Imaging Camera? And Does The Price Match The Test Results? Project Farm Finds One Clear Winner!

If you are like me, there have been a bunch of times when you wished you had a thermal imagine camera. I use my laser temperature gun all the time, and it’s very handy, but sometimes it would...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Testing from Darana Motorsports Park GALOT In Preparation For The IHRA Season Opener!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season opener, you are not alone! And with this weekend’s season opener going on at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, there is plenty...

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The Direct Injection Vs Port Injection Debate Is Dead! Or Is It? Brian Tooley Racing And The Real Tuners Podcast Dyno Test!

I know there are some good reasons for Direct Injection in gasoline engines. But I also know that DI engines can be a giant pain in the butt and have some serious issues folks need to be aware of....

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This Race Engine Was Built By Someone Else. Here’s How Moran Motorsports Found 260 Additional Horsepower That They Missed!

I know several professional engine builders, and several who think they are professional engine builders. Make no mistake, I’m not even remotely claiming to be an engine builder, and...

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Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings

Dan Strohl over at Hemmings has ROSS (Rusty Old Stuff Syndrome) just as bad as we do. Being that he works for Hemmings, Dan digs awesome stuff up that’s for sale all the time. This instance...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle

This week’s CraigsList find comes from the lovely burg of Quincy, Illinois. Long story short, it’s a great 1965 Chevelle that spent a couple of decades snoozing in the back of a barn. The...

Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining

We’ve talked about columnists and writers who were in the tank for NASCAR in the past, but we’ve reached a new level on that front with a recent column that appeared on Bleacherreport.com...

A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner

Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...

Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors

My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...

Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun

“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...

LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues

Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...

Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action

A while back we featured Wayne Sheeley’s crazy nuts Jeep FC-170 truck. It has been highly modified for off road action and was voted in by readers as a competitor at the wild Four Wheeler...

Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds

Everyone, it seems, even the auto company executives themselves, is perplexed as to why sales of cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger continue to troop onward and upward when the rest of new...

National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web

Today’s online column from National Dragster editor Phil Burgess is pretty interesting. He describes how, last year, he re-posted a bunch of vintage drag racing photos that he found on the HAMB...

Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More

Over at Moparts.com, a user called Devil has posted photos of his trip to Bloomington, Illinois, where some friends introduced him to a mystery man with a heart-stopping collection of rare Chryslers....

Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.

According to a story on MSNBC.com, the NHTSA’s reported 37,261 auto-related deaths last year were the lowest since 1961. Considering how many more cars are on the road now compared to 1961,...

A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck

By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive....

Roadside Find: 1931 Ford Model A Sedan Survivor

On a summer day trip to Maine with the kids, we were minding our business, walking down the sidewalk when the wonderful sound of a low compression flattie four filled our ears. We wheeled around...