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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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Paint And Body 101: How To Eliminate Orange Peel So You Can Paint Like A Pro! Kevin Tetz Walks Us Through The Process

Kevin Tetz is a bad ass. We’ve said it multiple times, but some things are worth repeating. He’s been painting cars and trucks for decades, showing millions how to do it on tv for...

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CHEAPEST Lincoln EVER! Will $155 Make It Run and Drive? Free Lincoln, Plus Free Big Block, Equals FUN!

Dylan McCool knows how to take advantage of some good fortune. When he was offered a big boat of a Lincoln, for free, and had already been given a 460 big block Ford, for free, he knew that the...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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American Powertrain Introduces Mopar® Small Block Aluminum Bellhousing for TREMEC® GM/Viper Magnum T-56 6-Speed

Looking to run a T-56 of the GM or Dodge Viper variety behind your Mopar small block? American Powertrain has you handle six ways to Sunday on this program and they have recently expanded their...

Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs Coverage: Modern Muscle On Full Display – Check Out This Late Model Goodness

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Newer stuff in here.  3rd photo in you’ll see what is a tubular chassis 2004 GTO-ish thing.  I’m not sure what to think of it, but with the vette...

Event Coverage: Pulling Action At The 2020 National Farm Machinery Show – Horsepower In Louisville, Kentucky!

(Words and photos by David Whealon) –  All I can say is Holy Cow!! My first trip to the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville Kentucky was nothing short of astounding. I was well aware of...

Throttle Therapy: This Petrolicious Feature On A 1965 Mustang Fastback Touches On Many Of The Reasons We All Love Cars

It’s insane to say that a car “helps” you, right? It’s crazy to say that the rolling hunk of steel, plastic, wood, and glass provides some service to better your mental and...

Throwback Speed: Some Of Our Favorite Old Car Websites Still Chugging Along In 2020!

(All images courtesy of their respective websites unless otherwise noted) Believe it or not, the internet as we know it today has been around for 30 years this year. While online bulletin boards and...

Finned Drums FTW: 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix – Tasty Bubbletop!

It’s actually kind of difficult to see this 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix as a car the size of a Chevrolet Impala. It looks tauter, smaller, more nimble. But it’s true…the...

Six For Six: Building A Buick V6 Street Screamer Out Of Grandpa’s Car

From mid-2005 to mid-2009, the main driver in my fleet was a 2001 Buick Regal GS Joseph Abboud Edition. How did I end up with a PGA rental special? When gasoline went from $1.29 a gallon to over...

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Monster Vs. Mayhem: Hoonigan’s ’55 Chevy Against A Legit Monster Truck At The Drag Strip

Any and every time I see a monster truck on something that isn’t dirt or a pile of crap car that’s half-flat already, it looks…wrong, somehow. It shouldn’t, but seriously, any...

Morning Symphony: Test And Tune Trepidation

It’s five days until Beech Bend opens for business. Five days until the first test-and-tune. The first drag racing coverage I shoot in what will be another wild year of action, another round of...

Cleaning Up The Desert With BFGoodrich And The Mint 400 – And You Can Enter To Win A Free Set Of Tires!

I might not be a natural child thereof, but out of all the variations of Earth I’ve seen to date, the American Southwest is the one that feels the most like home. Huge skies, Joshua trees and...

The Monday Shift: Make A 9-Second Pass In A Lenco Equipped 1933 Willys

This video features a quarter mile pass from inside a tiny 1933 Willys coupe. The car is apparently powered by a Ford big block engine and backed with a four speed Lenco transmission. It sounds...

Classic YouTube: Chuck “Malibu” Aaron Flying The Red Bull MBB Bo 105 Stunt Helicopter – No Heli Should Be Able To Do These Stunts!

What you will see here is so far out of the normal for a helicopter and helicopter pilot that it is almost beyond belief. The pilot is Chuck Aaron, call sign “Malibu”, and he is one of...

Throwing Good Towards Bad: Stuffing A Barra Six Into A 1976 Ford Granada

Oh, look…it’s the car I love to hate. If you’ve never seen me write about one of these before, I’ll make it plain: the 1970s Ford Granada, Mercury Monarch and Lincoln...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Keep A Tally On The Cost Of Your Project?

When I first started building the 1981 Dodge Mirada I scored for $650 in the fall of 2009, I decided to keep a running total of the money I spent on the car. I didn’t have any reason to…I...