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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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Paint And Body 101: How To Eliminate Orange Peel So You Can Paint Like A Pro! Kevin Tetz Walks Us Through The Process

Kevin Tetz is a bad ass. We’ve said it multiple times, but some things are worth repeating. He’s been painting cars and trucks for decades, showing millions how to do it on tv for...

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CHEAPEST Lincoln EVER! Will $155 Make It Run and Drive? Free Lincoln, Plus Free Big Block, Equals FUN!

Dylan McCool knows how to take advantage of some good fortune. When he was offered a big boat of a Lincoln, for free, and had already been given a 460 big block Ford, for free, he knew that the...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Jerks! Hot Rod Stolen in Oklahoma

All points bulletin! The pictured ’31 Ford coupe has been stolen in Purcell, Oklahoma. Spread the word and keep your eyes open. This is a recognizable car with yellow paint that will melt your...

ALMS: A Plucky Racing Series Making Its Own Way (Plus Outrageous Crash Footage)

The American Lemans Series has been around since 1999. It was conceived by and is operated by Dan Panoz the owner of Florida’s Sebring, Canada’s Mosport, and Georgia’s Road Atlanta...

Event Gallery: Geezers at the Grove 2009 by Joe Grippo

Maple Grove’s big nostalgia race every year is the weekend long festival of old stuff called, “Geezers at the Grove”. Racers and fans travel from miles around to see the show which...

Missed the Memo: News Story on the

Published the same day that the results from the RM “Icons of Speed and Style” auction became widespread knowledge, this piece from the Bloomberg News Service touted the awesome rising...

Great Fabrication Parts and Tools from Chassis Shop

This is not really a new product announcement, but a tip to a check out a company we’ve used multiple times when making stuff from scratch. It’s Chassis Shop, a great source for little...

Welcome to the Big Leagues Kid: Logano Flips Seven Times in Dover

Joey Logano already has a Sprint Cup win under his belt, but his real baptism by fire came last weekend on the “Monster Mile” in Dover, Delware, when he was involved in a nasty wreck that...

Breaking News: Holley Files for Bankruptcy…Again!

We can’t believe it either, but it looks like Holley Performance, a leading supplier of performance fuel systems and other high-performance products, is once again filing for Chapter 11...

Great Find: Gallery of Vintage Print Ads for Muscle Cars

Automotive print ads from the muscle car era ranged from funny to boastful to downright trippy. That being said, they all were awesome and some could be great examples of how the domestic...

Craigslist Find: Lawn Tractor Death Machine From Hell

Let’s be honest, we all need a lawn tractor capable of driving over a Prius. Read the Bill of Rights closely some day and deep down in the fine print somewhere past the “bear arms”...

Renault F1 Team Wrecked Intentionally; Full Story From the New York Times

It sounds like something out of a movie. A desperate F1 team, two drivers, a planned crash. Thing is, it’s real life. It has been revealed that at last season’s Singapore GP, the first...

It Came From the Forums: Holley Carb Rebuild

The BangShift.com forums are ripe with all kinds of good technical info. Forum member milner351 recently tackled the rebuild of a Holley double pumper carb and did so with great photos and...

Event Coverage: Mass. Cruisers Gillette Stadium Cruise Night September 2009

The Mass. Cruisers car club recently started an every-other-week cruise night at Patriot Place, the complex in Foxboro, Massachusetts, where Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, is...

Just Dashes Can Now Restore Gauges and Panels

They call the place Just Dashes, but they do way more. Any interior restoration you need, they have it covered. The comany is known for repairing wrecked old-car dash pads, and they can also restore...

Event Coverage: 2009 Cruisin’ for a Cure Charity Car Show

We gearheads are known for doing lots of good stuff. Charity work is on that list. Cruisin’ for a Cure took place at the Orange County Fairgrounds in So Cal last weekend and raised a ton of...