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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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This Gives Us Sweaty Palms: Camaros Are Coming to KONI Challenge

Here’s great news for fans of racing that does not take place in a straight line or on a circle. Momentum Race Group has announced that it will debut a 2010 Camaro road race car at the October...

eBay Pick of the Week: Solid 409 Powered Project Impala

The 409 sure has a special spot in the annals of hot rodding and muscle car history. Everything about the motor, right down to the shape of the cylinder heads, is indicative of the era when Detroit...

Event Coverage: Monday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

The 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at Bonneville got hot on its third day, and we aren’t just talking about the 105-degree temperatures. With teams vying for a piece of record pie, the Hot Rod Top...

Video: In-Car Camera of a 218-MPH Pass at Bonneville

In 2008, Bonneville racer Ed Goodrich was a huge help to the BangShift.com race team. After our race Camaro’s front air dam was protested, we drove 180 miles to Ed’s home in Idaho, took...

Event Coverage: Sunday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

Speed Week 2009 is reinforcing Bonneville Speedway’s “World’s Fastest” designation, and in grand fashion. Jump here for the BangShift.com photo gallery of Sunday’s...

Bonus Bonneville Gallery: Photos by Scott Clark

Our readers are once again proving that they are the coolest on the internet. Here is a bonus gallery of photos, shot by Scott Clark (known as dieselgeek) at Bonneville. Chad is zapping photos at a...

Event Coverage: 2009 NSRA Street Rod Nationals

Big thanks to astute reader and forum member Chris Morgan (CM325 on the BangShift.com forums) for attending and shooting a ton of great photos at the 2009 NSRA Street Rod Nationals. We took his...

Event Coverage: Saturday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

Today was the first day of competition at the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week, and if today’s top speed is any indication of things to come, we are in for some great racing action. Poteet...

BangShift.com Coverage of the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Starts Now

It’s almost midnight in Wendover, Utah, on August 7, and I just arrived in town (late, as usual) to start off the BangShift.com coverage of the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week. Racing...

One Last Time: Hear Lohnes Calling Hot Drag Race Action on Saturday!

No date for Saturday night? Hankering to hear a guy with funny accent scream about “dragstas” and “jet cahs”? We’ve got the perfect thing for you! I’ll be...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Chad’s at Bonneville and We’re Not

Yep, this one is personal. My BangShift.com blood brother Chad is literally cruising toward the crucible of speed right now, and me? Well, let’s just leave it at, “I’m not”....

Crane Cams Back Up and Running

A rare piece of good news these days, Crane Cams (under it’s new ownership by S&S Cycle) has reopened and is back in the business of making parts. Currently only motorcycle stuff is being...

Texas Shop Building V6 Camaro to Kick Nissan GT-R Ass

East Texas Muscle Cars, a Texas hot rod shop, has announced its intentions to build a 2010 V6 Camaro that is capable of running with and beating the vaunted Nissan GT-R on the Nurburging in Germany....

Craigslist Pick of the Week: 1952 International Truck; Cool Ugly or Ugly Ugly?

There are varying levels of ugly in this car hobby we all know and love. There’s cool ugly, like, say, an Edsel. Then there’s ugly ugly that (and we know there’s some of you who...