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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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Ebay Find: The Last Car To Come From Boyd Coddington’s Shop, The French Connection

The last car to leave the fabled shop of Boyd Coddington was this amazing creation called The French Connection. It was created as a tribute to the Delahaye T-165 roadster, a near unicorn of a car...

Cool Gearhead Spot: Doorthy’s Place

Nope, we didn’t spell that wrong. Doorthy’s Place is a neat little corner of the web that celebrates a dude who has a kick ass home shop where all his buddies hang out and wrench on their...

Car Looks Dumb, Gets Great Mileage, With Video

Apparently making your car resemble a Gila monster will result in big mileage gains. We think it will also result in a marked reduction in the amount of lovin’ you receive from the opposiste...

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Feds to Auction Massive Car Collection in Utah, With Video

The U.S Marshals are set to auction the 220-car collection of Jeffrey Mowen, a Utah man who has been indicted on charges relating to a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme. Note we said indicted as...

Illinois Drag Racer Gets the Call of a Lifetime From Qatari Sheik

It sounds like something out of the movies. Illinois drag racer Alex Hossler, who runs a totally bad ass Camaro Pro Mod, was called by Qatari Sheik Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani who asked Alex to run in...

GM to Recall Corvettes Due to Potential for Roof to Fly Off

Imagine the horror. You’ve just put on freshly pressed slacks, a brand new sweater, and your golf shoes are all polished up. You kiss the missus on the cheek and zip off with your clubs in the...

Pipe Dream? Delayed Alabama Track Still Hopes for 2011 Opening

So many times we lament whiny neighbors, draconian laws, and stupid local politics for blocking progress on new race track projects, but it seems that as many stories as we see about that stuff, we...

End of the Line for Venerable Yates Cylinder Head in NASCAR

If you’ve been racing a Ford product in NASCAR competition since 1992, you have been running the Robert Yates designed cylinder heads and intake manifold. The heads, which were originally...

2009: Bad Year for Cars

We’re not breaking any news here when we tell you that 2009 was just about the worst year in the modern history of selling cars. Aside from Ford climbing out of the ashes and starting to make...

Carnage Video: Failed Burnout Leads to Massive Clutch Explosion

Clutch explosions are among the most horrific examples of automotive component failures. Few things attached to a car have the ability to cause more instant carnage, to things both mechanical and...

EBay Find: Restored 1992 Camaro Cop Car

We were tipped to the eBay auction of this pristine 1992 Chevy Camaro BC4-package cop car by BangShift.com forum memember MR4Speed. The car was an active unit in Utah for most of its life before...

Saab: Is it Over Yet?

Saab, depending where you get your news from, is either dead or not quite dead. The Spyker company is still putting out releases that it is expecting to hear word from GM about the last offer to...

The Very Best of BangShift.com in 2009

This web site has been live for a little over a year and has been called BangShift.com for just 10 months. In that time it has grown from an idea into a place that has been visited 900,000 times....

Gary Densham Heads To Australia in Nostalgia Nitro Flopper

Gary Densham, a stalwart on the NHRA Funny Car trail, has, after several years of struggling hunting for cash to run the NHRA tour, taken to racing his nostalgia Camaro Funny Car. He’s sending...