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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Gearhead Destination: Beech Bend Raceway

Having just recently returned from a weekend at what is definitely a track in the top five coolest strips in America, we’d be crazy to let this chance to talk a little more about it slip by....

It Came from the Fab Shop: The MF’er of Invention

(By Loren Krussow) – A short while back I got to thinking it would be nice to get out my old ’70 El Camino and perhaps cruise it to the Big Bear BangShift get-together in June. I had...

Site of the Week: OldCarAndTruckPictures.com

While the name of the site certainly does not bowl you over with its inspiration, the massive number and variety of photos on this webpage will. OldCarAndTruckPictures.com is a catchall site that...

All Four Manufacturers Pull Financial Support for NASCAR Nationwide Series and Truck Series

Toyota has become the final auto manufacturer to announce that it will pull all financial support from the NASCAR truck series and Nationwide Series. The company, like the three American brands that...

Barnstormin’: The Hot Rod Reunion Weekend in Kentucky

For BangShift.com, the 2009 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, will hopefully be remembered as a watershed weekend where we got ourselves out to a...

Video: Killer Action at the 2009 National Hot Rod Reunion, Saturday

We’re wrapping up the weekend-long BangShift.com coverage of the 2009 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway with the best video yet! This one features some great burnout,...

Sunday Coverage of the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

The 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is in the books. After three days of sweltering heat, crushing humidity, and all-out horsepower warfare, the event has drawn to a close. BangShift.com has been...

Video: Cacklefest at the 2009 Holley/NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

The BangShift.com daily coverage of the 2009 Holley/NHRA Hot Rod Reunion continues! Here’s the radical cacklefest that went down on Saturday. Since it was held at night, you get header flames...

Event Coverage: Saturday at the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, 248 Photos!

Saturday at the 2009 Holley/NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was action-packed, hot, humid, hazy, and hella cool. The car show was more massive than ever we could have...

Event Coverage: Friday at the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, With Video

We’re here and we’re delivering the goods from the 2009 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion being held at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, KY. We were shooting photos and video of day one...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Viper Plant Reopens, USA Today Writer is a Killjoy

This week’s Friday Excuse to go Home Early and Drink touches on both happiness and anger.  The good news is that the Dodge Viper plant is back up and running in Detroit, cranking out...

More Amazing NHRA Photos by Mark Rebilas

While the NHRA event at Topeka, Kansas, was heldsome time ago, we still found it worthy to direct you to another amazing collection of photos from Mark Rebilas, who was on the scene at that race....

The Internet is Serious Business: Mud Bogging Websites in the New York Times

When we ran across a story about mud-bogging websites being covered in the New York Times, we knew something interesting had to be going on. It’s not like the paper would (Heaven forbid!) send...

Don Garlits Explains how to Fix Professional Drag Racing

Thanks to Dave Wallace for pointing us towards this link to an interview with Don Garlits where he expresses his ideas for “fixing” professional drag racing. Although he offers no...