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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Living Legends of Auto Racing Ripped Off By Rogue Employee

The Living Legends of Auto Racing is an organization that works hard to preserve the history of racing on Daytona Beach and of all the the pioneers of Stock Car racing. Unfortunately for them, the...

Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings

Dan Strohl over at Hemmings has ROSS (Rusty Old Stuff Syndrome) just as bad as we do. Being that he works for Hemmings, Dan digs awesome stuff up that’s for sale all the time. This instance...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle

This week’s CraigsList find comes from the lovely burg of Quincy, Illinois. Long story short, it’s a great 1965 Chevelle that spent a couple of decades snoozing in the back of a barn. The...

Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining

We’ve talked about columnists and writers who were in the tank for NASCAR in the past, but we’ve reached a new level on that front with a recent column that appeared on Bleacherreport.com...

A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner

Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...

Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors

My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...

Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun

“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...

LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues

Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...

Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action

A while back we featured Wayne Sheeley’s crazy nuts Jeep FC-170 truck. It has been highly modified for off road action and was voted in by readers as a competitor at the wild Four Wheeler...

Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds

Everyone, it seems, even the auto company executives themselves, is perplexed as to why sales of cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger continue to troop onward and upward when the rest of new...

National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web

Today’s online column from National Dragster editor Phil Burgess is pretty interesting. He describes how, last year, he re-posted a bunch of vintage drag racing photos that he found on the HAMB...

Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More

Over at Moparts.com, a user called Devil has posted photos of his trip to Bloomington, Illinois, where some friends introduced him to a mystery man with a heart-stopping collection of rare Chryslers....

Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.

According to a story on MSNBC.com, the NHTSA’s reported 37,261 auto-related deaths last year were the lowest since 1961. Considering how many more cars are on the road now compared to 1961,...

A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck

By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive....