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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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Stolen: Valuable Custom Camaro

A custom Camaro has been stolen from a shop in Delaware County, Oklahoma. The shop claims that the car is worth $185,000. It’s not exactly our taste, but it still sucks that it was stolen and...

New Head of GM North America Formerly Ran GM Performance, Holden

Mark Reuss is the new head of GM’s North American operations and you’ll be happy to know that he is a hard core car guy. Reuss previously ran the GM Performance Division and oversaw...

Stick to Your Prius: Canadian Reviewer Pans Camaro

The new Camaro has been reviewed by tons of media outlets. Most of the issues encountered by test drivers have been the same. There were some ergonomic complaints about the cabin and some issues with...

Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor

This is one of the craziest things we have ever seen. The video we dug up shows a very small remote control pulling tractor powered by an actual, tiny, turbine engine. We’d by lying if we said...

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It’s Good to be the Sheik: Al-Anabi Team Owner Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani Drives F1 Car

Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani, the owner of the massive, international Al-Anabi drag racing team, recently made history, becoming the first ever Qatari to drive a Formula One car. The ride was...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: A Monster 1973 Cadillac Eldorado

Whale-like Cadillacs from the early and mid-’70s are kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand they’re cool for their sheer girth and the fact that they were often packing 500 cubes...

Killer Digger Follow Up: Great Photos of Another SPE Slingshot in action

Yesterday we told you about a neat old front engine dragster that is for sale. The car has some cool history and was built by the west coast shop of Roy Fjastad called Speed Products Engineering. We...

Wild Video: Monster Trucks Running an Eighth Mile Drag Race

You’ve got to give the guys and girls at the ADRL credit, they know how to put on one hell of a show. They pulled out all the stops at their final race of the season by having two monster...

BangShift Approved: Christmas Deals from Goodmark

Everyone is pinching pennies this holiday season, and deep discounts are being advertised at every mall, retail shop, and garage sale in the country. Why should car parts get left out of the...

Former NHRA Racer, Team Owner In Big Trouble With the Government

Longtime Pro Mod standout and NHRA national event winning Funny Car racer and Top Fuel Team Owner Mike Ashley is in some serious trouble with the federal government. Ashley worked as the “chief...

New IHRA Pro Fuel Class Looks Cool, Veale/Brown Motorsports Digger will be there

The IHRA announced some major league format changes for the 2010 season, and they also announced some new classes that will be contested. One of them is being called “Pro Fuel” and is...

Saab sale news: Chinese may buy some assets, others interested in whole company

Saab has been a hot potato for GM as of late. The company started a deal to sell the brand to a Swedish sports car manufacturer but it fell apart in the late innings, then there was discussion with...

Wisconsin College Kids Get Engines to Run on (Mostly) Water

We hope there are no black helicopters circling the east coast BangShift.com HQ or any strange oil company representatives knocking at our door for reporting this story. A group of kids and a...

Quick Gallery: The 2009 PRI Show by MSD’s Todd Ryden

The 2009 Performance Racing Industry trade show is up and running in Orlando, Florida. Due to other commitments we could not attend the very cool gathering of hard core vendors from all genres of the...