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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Romping Stomping Historic Video: Check Out This Amazing Footage Of Drag Racing Legends In 427 Comets And Thunderbolts

Like so many awesome developments in Ford’s 1960s drag racing history, Tasca Ford can claim some credit for the creation of what would be known as the Thunderbolt. They started by stuffing a...

Casey’s Customs 1965 Mustang Chassis Swap Part 13: Finishing The Flares, Getting The Front Spoiler Installed, And Starting On Glass!

In this update video from the Mustang Chassis Swap build, you are going to see some finish work going on with the flares as this Mustang chassis swap gets further and further along. In addition to...

Pro Touring Triumph GT6 Build: The Rust Needs Taken Care Of, And Then This Thing Is Going To Start Getting Good.

So this project here has been going on for several years, and we kind of dig it, mostly because it is going from restomod to pro-touring machine and we dig the direction. To bring everyone up to...

Check Out This Big Remote Control Bulldozer And Watch It Ride Around On The Back Of A Cool Remote Control Big Rig!

The world of high end, custom made remote control vehicles continues to amaze us. Take this video for example that features a remote control bulldozer. Not only does it feature the ‘dozer it...

Building A Land Speed Race Car Part 5: Steering, How Complicated Could It Be? Well…

In this latest update on the land speed chassis that Superfast Matt is putting together, he’s showing off his steering design. Steering sounds like such a simple thing, but on a streamliner...

Class Racer Nationals Coverage: Stock And Super Stock Drag Racing!

Here’s the third gallery of photos that Dan sent us from the Class Racer Nationals. Man we wish we had been there! (Words and Photos by Dan Grippo) For the third year in row, the duo of Ken...

Bonneville Speed Week Photos: Our Last Friday Photos From The Nuggett

Here’s our last gallery from the Friday Nuggett Car Show, but we’ll have more from Saturday coming too! (Photos by Wes Allison) Every year, Bonneville Speed Week is kicked off with the...

Crew Cab Biscayne Project: Zero Dollar Rust Repair! – Body Panels Made From SCRAP METAL

In this installment of the Crew Cab Biscayne build, the one that just might get a 2-door conversion done to it, the DD Speed Shop gang is going to show us how to do some rust repair with scrap sheet...

Wickam Fell Down A YouTube Rabbit Hole And Found Mooneyes Japan Show Footage

(Words by Charles Wickam) I have to admit I will go down a YouTube rabbit hole any chance I get and sometimes come across some great and wild stuff. I recently went down the hole in Japan and came...

The China Syndrome: Ford Has Released A New 2023 Explorer For The Chinese Market – How Much Of It Is Coming Here?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Ford jut unveiled an “all-new” 2023 Explorer for China, and it might just give us some hints at the refreshed Explorer hitting US shores in 2024. Interesting…. Boasting...

Reading The Tea Leaves: Does Toyota Have A New MR2 On The Way? Circumstantial Evidence Suggests It!

(By Tom Lohnes) – To Enthusiasts, a new Toyota MR2 sounds like a dream. With all cars getting heavier, duller, and more automated, a back-to-basics, affordable, fun car is what the car...

New Product: Holley Sniper EFI 350 LPH Fuel Pump Module for 1978-1987 El Camino and Caballero

G-Body El Camino fans rejoice! And this new part also fits all you GMC Caballero guys too. New from Holley is their 350 LPH in tank fuel pump modules that drop right in and will support modern EFI...

Gallery: Vintage Ads From the Pages of Sports Car Graphic Magazine 1969

One of the neatest additions to our sizable collection of old magazines was a virtually complete set of Sports Car Graphic magazines that start in the early 1960s and end with the final issue in...

Flaming In-Car Wreckage Video: Watch A Racer With A Stuck Throttle Crash At The Top End And Escape Unscathed (And Unburned)

If we took a poll of racer all over the Earth and asked them what the most scary potential issues they could face on a run would be, we’re guessing a stuck throttle, and high speed fire would...