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Toronto Motorama Car Show Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, Race Cars, And More! Doing It Up Canada Style!

(Photos by Mike Brooks)  Continuing with his Toronto Motorama traditions, Mike Brooks has visited the great white north for the Toronto Motorama again this year. We’re used to seeing Brooks...

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Ultimate Street Car Season Begins With Racing In Texas! Here’s Why Running Early In The Season Matters For Championship Pursuits

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series officially kicked off at G2 Motorsports Park in Anna, Texas. When the grid lined up, the...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Sportsman Door Cars, Pro Mods, Pro Stock Bikes And More!

We’ve shared a few galleries of photos from David Whealon already but now we’re getting into some of the photos from Richard Pasley too. Check them all out below by using the link to all...

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Drill Taps: Are These Self Tapping Drill Bits The Tool You’ve Been Missing? Are These More Useful Than Any Other Drill Bits?

I’m a big fan of a good drill bit, like anyone else who’s having to drill holes. But there are some serious differences in bits, regardless of the price. With all the different coatings,...

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Vice Grip Garage Interior Rehab: Derek and His Wife Jess Restored Their Darts Interior On A BUDGET! Here’s How

Just because the parts are available doesn’t mean that doing an interior restoration on your favorite project is going to be cheap. With lots of options, from “custom” bolt in...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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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...

Bangshift.com Says Thank You to all Veterans

We just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the BangShift.com readers who have previously served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Your sacrifices and hard work allow places like...

Pay Up Sucka: NASCAR Charges Crew Chief Big For Low Car

We have to laugh at this stuff. Every time we hear about a NASCAR team failing a post-race inspection we wait for the punchline that is the fine. It’s not a joke because the amount is so small....

Mooresville Dragway Owners Arrested on Drug Charges

Mooresville Dragway, a popular and well known North Carolina eighth-mile facility, was temporarily shut down last weekend when the track operators, a husband and wife, were arrested on drug charges....

Cat-Seeking Stepmom Lisa Mayfield Pleads Guilty to Trespassing at Jeremy’s House

Yesterday, Lisa Mayfield, the stepmother of suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, entered a guilty plea on trespassing charges stemming from an August incident where she was involved in an...

Video: 2010 Camaro Pace Car Delivered in a Helicopter!

This is very cool, and we didn’t know about it because, big surprise, we did not watch the NASCAR Dickies 500 last weekend. But we did find out about this from our new friends at Autoblog.com....

Time to Lend a Hand: Car Guy Needs Some Help and You Could Win A Killer Camaro

There’s lots of tough sledding out in the world today. The economy is tough as we all know, winter is speeding toward the northern parts of the country, and many people face uncertainty at...

Killer Vintage Gallery: Car Haulers

Bangshift.com reader Jim Gonia knows us too well. He shot us a message and it contained about twenty photos of 1950’s tractor trailer trucks laden with awesome, brand new cars. We’re...

Site of the Week: The SEMA Action Network

We’ve been spending lots of time recently talking about the glitz and pomp of the 2009 SEMA Show here at BangShift.com so we thought it was hyper important to remind everyone of the really hard...

Photo Gallery: Great Car Show at a Better Junkyard!

Once again, our eastern contributor Joe Grippo has delivered the goods with two big photo galleries from a great car show held November 7 at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor Township, New...

BangShift.com’s Five Favorite Street Rods from SEMA 2009

It should come as no surprise that the SEMA Show in Las Vegas is always a hot spot for debuting some of the coolest street rods on the planet. After all, whether you call them street rods or hot...

Carnage Video: Crazy Catastrophic Engine Failure Now in High Def

The engine explosion of the European Maid pulling tractor has graced this website a time or two, but never in high quality television footage. This is the one where the motor explodes and the block...

BangShift.com’s favorite Mustangs from SEMA 2009

One of the biggest surprises for us at the 2009 SEMA Show was the number of cool old Mustangs. We were expecting nothing but late models, but much to our delight, we found Trans Am racers, Cammer...

BangShift.com’s Top Five 2010 Camaros from SEMA 2009

Public opinion going into the 2009 SEMA Show was that the 2010 Camaro was going to be the car of the show, even if Ford was the sponsor this year. The public was right. There were literally dozens of...