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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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Paint And Body 101: How To Eliminate Orange Peel So You Can Paint Like A Pro! Kevin Tetz Walks Us Through The Process

Kevin Tetz is a bad ass. We’ve said it multiple times, but some things are worth repeating. He’s been painting cars and trucks for decades, showing millions how to do it on tv for...

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CHEAPEST Lincoln EVER! Will $155 Make It Run and Drive? Free Lincoln, Plus Free Big Block, Equals FUN!

Dylan McCool knows how to take advantage of some good fortune. When he was offered a big boat of a Lincoln, for free, and had already been given a 460 big block Ford, for free, he knew that the...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Alex Taylor Is Driving a 12x Record Holding Camaro At Bonneville Speed Week: 200+ MPH for TWO Miles – Insane! Speed Week 2023 Wrap Up – Video 7

In this video, the 5th of Alex’s adventures on the salt, she’s a licensed driver! How fast will she go? Will she get to 200 mph? More than 200 mph? Watch and find out. The weather has not...

Newbern Has A New Ramp Truck Project! This 1968 C50 Is Going To Be Awesome!

Newbern has spent way too much time around all of Finnegan’s ramp trucks, so now he’s going to embark on his own ramp truck project. He and Wesley just picked up this bad ass peach and...

More Sick Summer Photos: The Cars Of Summer’s First Drag and Drive Event, Our First Gallery From Byron Dragway!

(Photos by Jim Hrody) Sick Summer is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all enjoy a few more photos! Jim sent these over so we decided we’d share them with all of you as well....

Bonneville Speed Week 2023 Photos – More Nugget Car Show! The Hot Rods, Customs, Race Cars, And More Keep Coming From Bonneville

More photos from Bonneville Speed Week’s Nugget Car Show 2023! This is the MUST attend kickoff party for Bonneville Speed Week and there are awesome cars on site both Friday and Saturday night....

Rebeldryver’s Ford 428 FE Project Part 7: First Fire Of His Newly Rebuilt Ford 428. Will It Run Or Be Another Failure?

In Part 7 of the build, Scott bolts this sucker to the engine run stand to see if it will actually fire up and not eat itself like the last time it was rebuilt. Let’s see how it all works out,...

Watch This Sand Rail Pull A Massive Power Wheelie Across Water – Physics Be Damned!

We have shown you Jeeps skittering over water, we have shown you trucks capsizing and sinking into the water, and we have shown you people floating across the water in makeshift junk over the years...

Who Makes The Best Plastic Welder? Are Plastic Weld Repairs Stronger Than New? Do You Need One? Let’s find out!

It used to be that the only way to repair old broken plastic pieces was to use super glue, plastic cement, bracing, good luck and hope. Sometimes these repairs worked great, other times not so much....

DIY Tech: How To Make Your Own Gaskets At Home – Who Needs A Parts Store?

Every time we go on a Drag and Drive event, I bring two kinds of gasket material so that if we have a problem I can make what is needed. Whether it is for our car or someone else’s car, being...

FINNEGAN’S ABANDONED ’69 DODGE DAYTONA CLONE DRIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES!

In a recent video, we saw Finnegan make his Daytona closer to being a runner with a stick in it, so that he could do more work on it and then take it on a fun road trip adventure with the Roadkill...

NotStockPhoto Video: C10’s on the Capital 2023, Flaming Underwear, and Great Trucks in Olympia Washington

John is back at it with another video from another great event, and this one is special if you are a C10 truck fan like us. This is a great show but it had more than the norm when it comes to fun and...

HOW TO MAKE BIG 6.0L LS POWER! FULL DYNO RESULTS ON CAMS, INTAKES AND (OF COURSE) PROCHARGER BOOST!

While there are a lot of options when it comes to factory engines for LS Swaps, the 4.8, 5.3, and 6.0 LS truck engines are the most popular by far. They are the cheapest, most prolific, and...

Bonneville Speed Week 2023 Photos – More Nugget Car Show! The Hot Rods, Customs, Race Cars, And More Keep Coming From Bonneville

More photos from Bonneville Speed Week 2023! If you missed any of them so far, we’ve got a link below to check them all out AND we’ve got tons of photos left. (Photos by Wes Allison) The...

More Sick Summer Photos: The Cars Of Summer’s First Drag and Drive Event, Our Final Gallery From Great Lakes Dragaway!

(Photos by Jim Hrody) Sick Summer is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all enjoy a few more photos! Jim sent these over so we decided we’d share them with all of you as well....

FIRE! The Vice Grip Garage NASCAR Burnout Truck Needs Work – Let’s Watch Derek Fix It And Make MORE Improvements!

It ran and drove, and it did big burnouts, but it had some issues and now it is time to fix those issues. If you missed any of the build of this former circle track truck, into a burnout machine, use...