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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week, Day 4, Hebron, Ohio

Day 4 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2009, presented by Gear Vendors, can be summed up with three words: misdirection, breakage, and teamwork. The event, which takes competitors and their cars...

Video: Jeff Lutz’s Turbo 1957 Chevy Running 7.81 at 180 mph at Drag Week

As we sadly know, the killer suede-black 1957 of Jeff Lutz fell out of Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 yesterday, Wednesday, September 17. However, it’s not like the Unlimited class racer did not put on...

Thursday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com, Plus Video of the 9.50 Pass

“If we can make the drive I think we can pull off another 9.50 and put the win away.” That’s a confident Jay Brown as he wraps his Thursday, Day 4 diary of his adventures at Hot Rod...

VOTE NOW! Cherry Bomb Nominated for Speed Parts Hall of Fame

Alright BangShifters, it’s time to help the fine folks at Cherry Bomb Exhaust as they have been nominated to be part of the class of 2009 in the Hot Rod Magazine Speed Parts Hall of Fame. We...

Drag Week Carnage: Yost Firebird Frags a Transmission at National Trail; The Thrash Is On

OUCH! Drag Week Competitor Eric Yost fragged the Turbo 400 in the awesome turbocharged Firebird he is driving today at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. In true Drag Week fashion, the guys are...

Caterpillar Rolls Out Hybrid ‘Dozer To Dealers After a Year of Testing

Irony. It’s all around us every day. We’d say that a hybrid bulldozer would fall under the ironic category. Calling it a “green” bulldozer would be downright oxymoronic, but...

Video: Fun With Backfires

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re big fans of dumb fun around here. The guys in this video are as well. They have a 1995 Caprice that is backfiring through the exhaust. The guys...

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Your Car is Safer, It Just Seems More Dangerous

It can be stated as fact that the new cars hitting American roads are the safest ones ever built. Crash test results are often touted by manufacturers in advertisements and the vaunted “five...

Detroit Speed & Engineering Deep Tubs for 1962-1967 Novas

Our friends at Detroit Speed & Engineering have a bunch of trick parts, and we’re big fans of their Deep Tubs kits that make it much easier to mini-tub a car for tire clearance. With Deep...

Wednesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com

We’ve been following Drag Week with the diary of racer Jay Brown in his SOHC-motored 1964 Galaxie. If you don’t know the car we’re talking about, see the video of a 9.53 pass here....

Art Arfons’ Green Monster on eBay

One of the most significant cars in the history of American motorsports is currently for sale on eBay. The “Green Monster” of Art Arfons, a vehicle that was one half of the greatest LSR...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 3, Norwalk, Ohio

The five-day road show and drag race that’s called Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2009, presented by Gear Vendors, had more drama than the Wendy Williams show today as transmissions got changed,...

Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 3 Results Are In

The results of Day 3 of Hot Rod Drag Week at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, have been posted here at the Hot Rod Magazine web site. Go there to download the pdf, which is getting too large...

SideJobPhotos Great Shots from Drag Week 2009

While you’re awaiting tonight’s BangShift.com coverage of Day 3 at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, go check out the SideJobPhotos web site to see some very cool shots of many of the competitors....