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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(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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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

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

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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SDBA Drag Boat Races Will Be LIVE Here On BANGshift Starting Sunday Morning!

That’s right folks, we’ve got more Southern Drag Boat Association racing coming to you live right here at BANGshift.com. We were live Saturday morning and will be live again Sunday...

Ask And Ye Shall Receive: The Ford Bronco Can Now Get A 7-Speed With The Sasquatch Off-Road Package

It was one of the most disappointing facets of an otherwise amazing product launch: the seven-speed manual transmission would not be available on the Sasquatch off-road package of the new Ford...

The Challenger Revival Part 24: MoParty And The First Drive

Looking back to the first images of this 1973 Dodge Challenger as it was found, would you have attempted to bring it back to life? Crusted in algae, sinking into the earth, bashed in the...

Homecoming King: A DeKon Monza Recreation Ripping Around Monza

During my early, influenced years, I ate up everything I could about cars that I had an interest in. I knew the  quick origin story of the Mustang before I was in kindergarten. I learned about the...

Gentle, Now: Saving The Jeep That Was Stuck On The Razor Ridge Trail In California

The AllTrails.com description of the Razor Ridge Trail says it clearly: “Razor Ridge Trail and Canyon Road Loop is a 2.7 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Loma Linda, California...

Bargain Racement: Can You Build And Race A Car For The Same Or Less Money Than SIM Racing? YES, YES YOU CAN!

Before you start going all gamer bitch on me and start spouting examples of SIM racing setups that are cheap, realize that everyone knows you can do SIM racing at a bunch of different budget levels....

Welcome Back To The Brutality: Rally Racing Crashes From The Year That Cared Not

You can determine just how well this year is treating you, mainly because at this point any concept of a blanket statement is worthless. 2020 is one for the books…right up there with the Black...

The Fall Fling At Galot LIVE Continues Sunday For $125,000!

The Fling events, whether the Spring Fling, Spring Fling Million, Fall Flings, etc, are some of the finest run bracket races in the world. They have arguably changed the landscape of bracket racing...

Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers

(Words by Jim McIllvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelly) By the time the world’s best street cars rolled into NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, five events were in the books for OPTIMA’s...

What Do You Take To Pick Up A Small Block Swapped Mini Truck? DUH! A Blown Ramp Truck!

Mike Finnegan never bores, with all the trucks he’s swapped and traded and bought and sold in recent years, but right now he’s on a whole new level of the car and truck shuffle and has...

American PowerTrain Starting Shift: Working A Detroit Diesel Up Through The Gears And Back Down Again On A Grade

For this week we’re throwing down two stroke style for our American Powertrain Starting Shift. We get to sit (literally) in the driver’s seat of a 1980 GMC Brigadier dump truck as it...

Wild Video: Watch These British Navy Guys Cheerfully Disarm A Mine In 1940

WWII in England had to have been a time of indescribable feelings. There was the patriotism involved in defending their country, the terror of knowing that missiles could rain down at any moment, the...

Watch Smokey Yunick Make A Side Splitting Speech From His Induction Into the Daytona Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame

While Smokey Yunick died about 16 years ago now, his legend continues on and will for generations. We got tipped off to this truly awesome video by a guy who said that it was must watch stuff. He was...

This 1940 Ford Truck Promotional Film Features About Every Cool Model The Company Made At The Time

The world has moved on the backs of trucks for many decades now but it was a different story in 1940. It is not as if there were still lots of horse drawn carts moving stuff from place to place but...