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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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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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New Ridetech Project Car: a Factory Five Roadster!

BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech always has some cool project going on, and this time company owner Bret Voelkel has picked up one of the hot little Factory Five ’33 Hot Rods for the...

Killer Video: SOHC Ford Floating the Valves at Eight Grand

The is gearhead voyeurism: a look inside the valve cover of a 427 SOHC Ford motor at eight-freakin’-thousand RPM. What you’ll see is valve float. Not wildly bouncing valve float, but a...

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Retro-Cool: Drag Racing Online Features Vintage Drag Racing Posters

People collect just about everyting. Our habit is weirdo, basketcase cars, but others like to collect all manner of drag race and hot rod memorabilia. Vintage drag race posters happen to be the focus...

Dart Wants Your Input on a New Ford Cylinder Head Design

Dart Heads has decided to build a fresh, kill-all cylinder head for small-block Fords, and the company is looking for input on design features from racers who really use the stuff. This could be a...

Mustang II: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Some say I was a little hard on the 1974-78 Mustang II in “The Top 11 Never Made Special Edition Ford Mustangs” that ran earlier this week on the BangShift.com blog.  After all,...

Carroll Shelby Will Rebuild Your Engine!

Ol’ Shel may not drop by your garage with a bowl of chili and a torque wrench, but if you send your mill to his Carrol Shelby Engines company, the place will now rework your exact engine and...

Video: Diesel Fury from the Cornfield Corvette

Man we’re loving big, fast trucks these days. We stumbled upon a couple videos of a large truck called, the “Cornfield Corvette” and after nearly passing out due to the coolness of...

15 Vehicles Returned So Far in General Motors Buy-Back Program

In a program that started September 14, 2009, General Motors offered a 60-day buy-back guarantee on its cars. If you bought a GM product, you could return it between 31 and 60 days after the purchase...

New Zealand Street Racers Risk the Crusher Under New Law

Normally we’d be writing about how you can add another state to the growing list of places that will crush your junk if your something really stupid in your car. Now we can tell you to add...

Video: Great Small-Tire Camaro Wheelstand

BangShift.com member Eric68 has a great ’68 Camaro street and strip car that is a past entry into Drag Week. He recently added a 180hp nitrous shot to the potent small-block and ended up...

Great Read: The Story of Pro Mod Diehard Frankie “The Madman” Taylor

Frankie Taylor is a drag racer’s drag racer. His knuckles are always bloody, his hair looks like it was styled by a spastic kid holding a weed whacker, and he hauls ass. At least when...

Old School Pro Street Lives at Summit Racing!

We found this car feature story at SummitRacing.com, and it was like we were back in the pages of Car Craft magazine in around 1989 or 1991. This ’62 Pontiac fullsize is so much like a retro...

Conspiracy Theory: NASCAR Racers Johnson and Knaus Must be Cheating

Cheating in NASCAR has taken on many forms over the years, from subtle to totally blatant, from Junior Johnson’s “banana” Holly Farms Ford modified for better aerodynamics to...

Breaking News! BangShift.com Will Deliver Live Feed from the March Meet

This is great news! As a result of the success of BangShift.com’s live streaming video feed from the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion, the web site has reached an agreement with Blake Bowser of...