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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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Felix Rosenquist And David Malukas Battle For The Closest Finish In Indy 500 History! Watch The Finish And Race Highlights Right Here!

If you didn’t catch the entire Indy 500 on TV yesterday, you missed some drama for sure. With rain effecting the race, but officials, fans and racers sticking it out, there was no shortage of...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks

The science of destroying things is something that has fascinated people for hundreds of years. In an illustration of the true Yin and Yang of life, for every construction contractor there needs to...

The Wednesday Shift: Vintage Modified Eliminator Action from Connecticut Dragway Circa 1981

This great piece of video shows extinct race cars running on an extinct race track: Modified Eliminator at a 1981 NHRA Divisional hosted at the long dead Connecticut Dragway. Modified Eliminator in...

$3,500 Build: A Chassis Swapped, Bagged, And Chopped 1954 Chevrolet Build For Just $3,500

After successfully building an F100 for just $1,000, it would seem that building a 1954 Chevy would be a snap for $3,500. But it’s not that simple when you consider what Casey is going to do,...

NHRA Photos: Funny Cars, Funny Cars, And More Funny Cars. Plus Header Flames Galore!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Nitro is a riot to watch at night, and especially when it lights up the sides of a nitro burning Funny Car like the ones pictured in our gallery below. This is the first...

Abandoned Race Track Project: Tire Smoke, Tractors, A Turbo LS Swapped Lincoln, And The “Love Shack”

There is a lot of work going on to get this place up and running, but we love that they are also having a little fun in between. After all, you have to stay motivated. Yeah, that’s it. We call...

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BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Fixing Our Fuel System Before We Go Atomic!

Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...

Alex Taylor’s Quest For The 6’s 1955 Chevy Project Is Legal! They Got Their NHRA Chassis Cert!

No amount of thrashing will get you on the race track legally unless you’ve got an NHRA Chassis Certification. The car doesn’t have to be completely finished in order to get inspected and...

LS Swap Cruise Control Made Simple! Use Factory Parts To Add Cruise Control To Your LS Swapped Ride

Cruise control is a nice thing to have in your car or truck, but it isn’t always easy to do in your hot rod or truck that has had a late-model engine swap. For years we’ve used the Dakota...

Sheet Metal Tech: How To Bead Roll 2 STYLES of Door Panels!! Quilted Diamonds & Scales!!

Aluminum door panels can be super cool looking on hot rods, race cars, street machines, and trucks alike. From simple to complex, we’ve seen all kinds of them on all kinds of applications. The...

NHRA Photos: NHRA Top Fuel Action Photos From The 2021 NHRA Winternationals In Pomona!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Top Fuel is something special when you’ve got header flames shooting ten feet in the air. There really isn’t anything like it anywhere else. Thankfully, Wes was on...

Throwing Down Old School: This Chevy Opala Has An Inline Six, Webers, and Manual Transmission (Video)

It may not be the quickest way, it may not be the trickest way, but putting an old school hot rod together like this one is by far the coolest way to go racing. The Brazilian Chevy Opala that is...

More Texas Heat Wave Truck Show Photos: Mini Trucks, Full Sizes, Classics, And More!

We shared two galleries of photos from Texas Heat Wave so far and we’ve still got one more for you to check out this week. I love the fact that custom truck shows allow you to see such variety....

Ron Capps, Leah Pruett, Greg Stanfield And Matt Smith Close Out Hot Racing Action At Too Hot Pomona Winternationals!

    (Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt) – If I told you it was hot at the annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, it was hotter for the drivers and...

The F-Bomb Project Is Getting Close To Done! Finishing The Fuselage With Ron Covell

Ron is continuing to piece this project together, and in this video he finished making the complete fuselage by building an interesting piece that is pretty simple actually and insures that each end...