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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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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(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 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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2022 Civic Type-R Spied: Styling That Still Raises Eyebrows And Performance That Still Raises Pulse Rate

(By Tom Lohnes) – When the new-for-2017 FK8 generation of Honda Civic Type-R came out, many people were impressed by its performance and then disgusted by its boy-racer styling that took aero...

Luxury Land Bruiser: Ford Preparing The Upcoming 2022 Expedition ST – A Sported Up SUV The Size Of A House

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever wish that your 3-ton SUV with 8 seats was sportier? Well, Ford has the answer for you, and it comes in the form of the upcoming Expedition ST. Now, there are big...

Passion and Class: This Goodwood Masters Film On Duncan Pittaway Is A Great Piece On A Great Guy

This is so well worth your 20-minutes of viewing time we can hardly tell you. The film you are about to see is a profile on Duncan Pittaway, a man who’s name has appeared on these electronic...

License Day: This Behind The Scenes Video Featuring Jason Rupert Getting His NHRA Funny Car License Is Awesome

We’ve long been Jason Rupert fans here at BangShift.com. During our years of streaming events like the March Meet, California Hot Rod Reunion, and others, we saw a lot of him. Typically we saw...

Watch This Crazy Junkyard Shredder Eat Entire Engines – Amazing Power And Destruction

The metal business is pretty interesting. After all, at the end of the day the raw value of the stuff in a junkyard is its weight in metal. The stuff gets sold, loaded onto ships, smelted down in...

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...