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

Here’s our third nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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Are $5K Auction Cars Junk? Check Out These $5,000 Buys From Mecum Indy 2026 And Let Us Know What You Think.

We’ve talked about cheap cars that sell at Mecum, Barrett-Jackson, RM and other big name auctions a few times in the recent past and I can tell you that while they are few and far between at...

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Finally A Budget Drill Bit Set That Outperforms All The Rest! Which Low Buck Set Is Actually Worth Buying? 14 Brands Tested!

Drill bits suck. I mean they are great for the first few holes, but after that they just suck usually. Unless you spend big money that is. And drill bit sharpeners? They are great, but if the bit is...

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The Hydroplane Racing League Livestream From The 2026 HRL Cambridge Classic Power Boat Regatta!

If you dig offshore powerboat racing, and especially these insane beasts that basically fly across the top of the water, then you are in for a treat. This is the replay from the Hydroplane Racing...

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A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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New Big-Block Chevy CNC Heads from RHS

Big-block Chevy engines are the weapon of choice for the majority of fast sportsman drag racers out there. Yes, all three makes are represented in some form, but walk though the staging lanes at an...

Celebrity Drivers at this Weekend’s Long Beach Grand Prix

It’s that yearly ritual that lets us know Spring has arrived, the Long Beach Grand Prix. It’s also the same weekend that the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race takes place. This event has been...

Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks

We’ve been collecting up photo galleries of all sorts of car that we see during our car-guy travels, and this time it’s a gallery of 31 Buick photos. We would have liked to have more, but...

Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Buick Century

When we hear the words Buick Century we think, 84 year-old woman. They weren’t always Q-tip cars, though. In fact, the Century was a pretty hot number back in the day and it was drop-dead...

Cyclekarts: We Want One!

BangShift.com forum member Mr4Speed sent us along a link to this website about cyclekarts. What the hell is a cyclekart, you ask? Picture a tiny version of a 1920s race car and you’re getting...

Gearhead Destination: Woodward Dream Cruise

With all the junk going on with the domestic car makers, Detroit needs a lift. The good news is that they’ll get a good one on August 15th, 2009, in the form of the 15th Annual Woodward Dream...

Video of the Week: How Not to Pull Out a Stuck Jeep

With the news that our pals at StreetFire and CarDomain recently joined forces, we realized that we were relying way to heavily on YouTube for our Video of the Week selections. After all, if...

Yet Another Fast and Furious F-Bomb Camaro Clone on eBay

All of a sudden, clones of Freiburger’s F-Bomb Camaro are showing up everywhere like they are the next Eleanor or something. Earlier this week one of the former movie cars from Fast and Furious...

Ford C6 Trans Brake from TCI

We know lots of Ford racers running C6 transmissions in their bracket bombers and hot street cars. TCI has developed a new trans-brake setup to allow those racers to be more consistent at the tree...

Ecoboost to be used on 90 Percent of Fords by 2013

Ford’s twin-turbo Ecoboost system will be used on 90 percent of the company’s engines by the year 2013, claims Ford in a slightly aged story in the Detroit Free Press newspaper. The story...

More of Our Videos, Now at MSDVideos.com

Several months ago, David Freiburger and I made a bunch of videos for MSD Ignition. The one called Set Your Timing has been posted for a while now, but more recently, they put up vids on how to know...

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New Wide-Band Air/Fuel Gauge from FAST

On the heels of announcing the new self-tuning EFI setup, FAST has crammed our inbox again with the news of its new Wide-Band A/F Gauge kit. The days are over of tuning your junk by having your buddy...

Shocker: Tiny Cars Cannot Defeat the Laws of Physics

File this one under, “Thank you, Captain Obvious.” NBC news ran a report telling America that tiny cars, like the Smart, Yaris, and Honda Fit, may put you at a disadvantage in a wreck...

AHRA Back from the Dead?

The American Hot Rod Association was drag racing’s great second/third sanctioning body during the ‘60s and ‘70s. It did the things that the NHRA was afraid to do and leader Jim Tice...