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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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We’ve Got NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: 4-Wide Drag Racing Is Right Here!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Friday $50,000 Big Money Race #1

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Another Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 4th gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them out too....

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Eliminations & Pro Mod And Top Fuel Qualifying From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Mid West Pro Mods, Top Alcohol Funny Cars, Dragsters, And More From The Lonestar Nationals at The Texas Motorplex

We told you we had a bunch of photos the the recent Lonestar Nationals in Ennis Texas! This event, held at the famed Texas Motorplex, was an awesome show the featured not only the Mid West Pro Mods,...

Insane: In Cockpit Video Of A Top Fuel Hydroplane Totally Submerging Itself At Full Throttle!

This is one of the most insane videos we have ever posted. The film was taken at a Lucas Oil Drag Boat event and it featured Top Fuel Hydroplane racer  Jarret Siilvey and his 8,000hp boat becoming a...

Watch A B-29 Get Its Nose Art Added By An Officer In 1944 – Was This The Same Deaner Boy B-29 That Crashed In 1945?

At first blush I thought this was just a bitchin’ video of a WWII scene where an officer was adding the classic nose art to the B-29 he flew in during the fierce Pacific fighting in the war. I...

Rough Start: 1978 Dodge Motorhome….Why Does It Look Bagged In This Picture?!

I’m almost embarrassed to admit it, but I had never noticed the little tab on Facebook Marketplace that allows you to scroll between just vehicles and categories like “Powersport”,...

Morning Symphony: Man And Bike Versus Gravity And The Earth

For the better part of the afternoon yesterday, all I could hear was the sound of a two-stroke weedeater going to town as I cleaned up the better part of the property that BangShift Mid-West sits on....

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BANGshift Welcomes AllCollectorCars.com To The BANGshift Family Of Sponsors!

We’re excited to announce that AllCollectorCars.com is the newest sponsors here on BANGshift.com! With a ton of cool cars listed and for sale, from locations all over the country,...

Pulling Video: Four Weed-Whacker Engines Never Sounded So Mean

The world of remote control pulling fascinates us. That shouldn’t be much of a surprise, because virtually everything fascinates us. Whatever lunatic decided that the world needed a sport where...

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Happy 6/4! To Celebrate Crank The Volume And Listen To This Blown 604ci Chrysler Wedge Make 1,800hp

While most of the world does not celebrate June 4th, we do around here because 604 happens to be a good displacement for stroker big block engines and rather than just show you come low compression...

Enter to Win Holley’s Twin Supercharged LS Engine Giveaway! – It’s Easy and Free!

What’s that? You don’t need a free, twin-blown, 427ci LS engine from Holley? You don’t think that you want that much horsepower? You’re not sure? Please leave. Go ahead and...

The Other Guy: How The Mercedes E53 Coupe Stacks Up In The World Of Performance Cars – Now With An AMG Edition!

(By Tom Lohnes) – For the old men out there that think the Corvette Convertible or Porsche 911 Cabriolet are too mainstream, there has always been the Mercedes E-class Coupe and Cabriolet....

Radical Rambler: This 1968 Rambler American Is A Tube Chassis, Center Steer Link To A Type Of Drag Racing No One Does Anymore

This is the coolest drag car we have seen on eBay in years and that’s really saying something because we have seen a few. What makes this car so cool? The fact that literally no on builds them...

Classic YouTube: Check Out This 1957 Chrysler Corporation Training Film – Nine-Way Car Battle With Buick, Olds And Cadillac!

This Chrysler Corporation training film might have been showcased as a nine-way vehicle test, but let’s be quite honest: no, it’s not. In the Fifties, the manufacturers were cut-throat...

Lambo Doors On A C8? Not Just No….HELL NO – Just Because You Can Does Not Mean That You Should

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want to take a brand new C8 Corvette and ruin it? Well, for $3,000 hard earned dollars you very much can with scissor doors for the new-for-2020 mid-engined Corvette....

The “WTF?” Files: The Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet Fire Truck Conversion

“Form follows function” simply means that the aesthetic shape of something (normally a building) should be dictated by the function or purpose of the design. Ergo, that’s why a fire...