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The Last of our Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our last gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: PDRA Testing For This Weekend’s Maryland International Raceway Event! Live Testing Action.

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams are on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they get ready for this...

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Robin Shutes Onboard Video Pikes Peak 2026. 2nd Overall, 1st in Super Unlimited, and Sets the All Time Rear Wheel Drive Record!

If you are like me you are going to watch this video and think how much fun it seems it would be to be driving, and also that this dude could have been going even faster. Yeah, that’s not a...

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They Built a BANNED F1 Car From the 70’s! Well Kinda, And It’s Awesome! Who Wants To Build One Of These?

I know I’m not alone in saying that the Tyrrell P34 is one of the coolest looking F1 cars ever produced, not only because the lines are good on it, but also because it’s a freak show with...

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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Funky Turkey: Watch This 1949 Euclid Dump Truck Run A Tough Truck Course – Run Maybe Overstating It

There’s an old question out there that we love asking. “Why be normal?” That is exactly what pertains to this video that was taken a while back at a state fair where a tough truck...

Turkey To Go: The Anadol STC-16 Running The Istanbul Rally In 2011

One of the strangest vehicles I have discovered in the past decade has been the Anadol STC-16. Made between 1973-76, the STC was a side-gig for Ford Otosan, the company that cranked out Turkish-made...

Early Turkey: This 1980 Olds Diesel Promotional Film Is Even Better In Retrospect

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we find this! The audio is not the greatest here so if you are wearing headphones, keep the volume down. That being said, you can hear all the words...

BangShift Thanksgiving Hero: This Guy Built His Own Steam Engine To Run An Alternator

(By Greg Rourke) –  It’s happened to all of us…you go out in the morning and find a dead battery in your daily driver. What to do? Well, you can pester a neighbor for a jump start....

Next Generation Up: Madison Payne Is Following Her Grandfather, Mom, and Dad Down A Nitro Powered Path

(Photo: Kelly Wade/WinLightNews.com) – Drag racing is a sport that really isn’t all that old. In fact you can really only go back about three generations of time before getting to the...

The Good Kind Of Ugly: This 1963 Studebaker Zip Van Is Rusty And Busted But It Is Cool!

For many BangShift readers, the Studebaker Zip Van may be a kind of automotive revelation. The kind of thing that makes you wonder what the heck you missed back in the day and it’s a little bit...

Incredible: This Look Inside Powermaster Performance Is Beyond Awesome – An American Manufacturing Company!

Powermaster has been a longtime member of the BangShift family of sponsors and we have been proud of that fact for some time. This is an American company making high quality products in their Chicago...

Incredible Engineering: This Breakdown Of How Mercedes Literally Redesigned The F1 Wheel Is Amazing

When people ask you why F1 cars are so expensive, show them this video. You are going to watch a fascinating engineering study that tells the story of how the Mercedes team quite literally redesigned...

Check Out This Back To Back Factory Manifold vs Header Test On A Brand New LT2 Out Of A C8 Corvette

There’s basic tenants in hot rodding that we all know. More air in, more fuel burned, more air out, more horsepower. These are things that the aftermarket has studied and worked to refine for...

We’ve Got All The Door Car Drag Racing Action Photos You Can Stand! Small Tire, Big Tire, Radials, And No Time From The Street Car Super Nationals

(Photos by Wes Allison) This should have been called the Street Wheelstanding Car Super Nationals because everything from Pro Mod to Radials to bracket cars were running with the wheels high in the...

Sideways Is The Way: RWD Rally Cars In Action In The Woods

The Audi Quattro was the ultimate spoilsport. Prior to, rally cars were mostly rear-wheel driven because you could boot the back end around on throttle alone and utilize both ends of the car as a...

Watch This Eagle Talon Go High and Eat The Wall During The Spectator Drags At Seekonk Speedway

It has been too long since we have shown some spectator drags action from one of the myriad of circle tracks across America. One such track is Seekonk Speedway located in Seekonk, Massachusetts. This...

Classic YouTube: Drifting A Suzuki Swift, One Way Or Another! Hooning A Beater Never Looked So Fun!

I have a weird respect for the Suzuki Swift and it’s USDM cousin, the Geo Metro. When they were being sold, I couldn’t make enough jokes about those cars…tiny hatchbacks always...

Tire Destruction Magnificence: This Rat Motored Toyota Hates Mud Tires And Destroys Them In BangShifty Fashion

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Burnouts, fire, superchargers, donuts, and noise are everything car fanatics love and this video has it all in one crazed package known as BLWNLUX. Brett Battersby of...