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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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Radical Variable-Valve-Timing Engines from Mast Motorsports

We met the guys from Mast Motorsports at the GM Performance Parts LSX Shootout in Memphis last year, but we just checked in on the company web site and we’re amazed at how far they have come....

Video: Spectacular Vintage Drags Film From the 1969 NHRA Nationals

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the preservation of a bunch of old film clips, which can presented for new generations to see. Below are three videos that comprise a Hurst movie...

World Products Aluminum Mopar Big-Blocks

Did you know that World Products makes aluminum Mopar blocks? They are available for big-blocks and Hemis. The regular iron and compressed graphite versions are also available. Click here to see the...

World Products Aluminum Block for Big Mopars

Did you know that World Products makes aluminum Mopar blocks? They are available for big-blocks and Hemis. The regular iron and compressed graphite versions are also available. Click here to see the...

2009 Goodguys Chicagoland Event Coverage at Ridetech.com

If we worked at Ridetech instead of just having the company as a site sponsor, then we’d get to go to nearly every Goodguys show, like those guys do. When the Ridetech staff is on site they...

Video: SUV Crashes Through a Bakery Store!

We have to thank CarDomain for showing us this one, because it’s freakin’ unbelievable. The video is one thing, with a Toyota 4Runner not only crashing through a bakery store (seen from...

Cherry Bomb Voted Into the Speed Parts Hall of Fame and You Helped

A short time ago we asked for your help in voting for one of our fine sponsors, Cherry Bomb Exhaust. The original Cherry Bomb muffler was on the list of nominees for the class of 2009 inductees into...

Carnage Video: Nastiest Engine Explosion Ever, Part Two

One of the most popular video blogs ever here on BangShift.com is the one with the tractor-pull rig exploding its engine is such spectacular fashion that the tractor drives over the cylinder head....

New Models Allowed for Bathurst 12 Hour Event

The Bathurst 12 Hours is one of the neatest production car road races in the world. The Bathurst course itself is the stuff of legend and most of the world’s great racers have made laps on the...

Legal Manuvering Continues in Mayfield Case

There have been some small developments in the saga of NASCAR versus driver Jeremy Mayfield for his alleged use of methamphetamine. Now we’re seeing some interesting stuff starting to happen...

2010 Camaro Body in White

It was announced in February that GM Performance Parts is offering 2010 Camaros as a body in white (just the sheetmetal, nothing else, including the main body, doors, fenders, hood, and trunk lid)...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Bone Stock 1955 Willys CJ-3B Jeep

Flat-fender Jeeps are coveted by collectors and off-roaders alike. They are iconic American vehicles, and in the case of this 1955 CJ-3B for sale in the Chicago area, direct descendants of the Jeeps...

Icons of Speed Auction to Showcase Historical Drag Machinery

The epic “Icons of Speed and Style” auction to be held at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles this Saturday by RM Auctions will feature a lot of stuff, we’re drooling over the...

Power Tool Drag Racing is Huge in England

We see power tools and think home improvements. A bunch of wacky gearheads in England see power tools and think drag racing. We love stuff like this and these guys and girls have taken it to the next...