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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: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE 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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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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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...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Missing Porsches For Club Money

Another week down, another week closer to warmer weather and more action. We can’t wait…in fact, we haven’t! Chad has been out at the ECTA Invitational at Spaceport America...

Watch This Pro Stock Semi Pulling Truck Called Bad Attitude Hike The Front Wheel At The Start And Never Put It Down – Torque At Work!

My favorite competitive beast of burden is a pro stock semi pulling truck. Why? They look all the world like over the road trucks and have immense power, cool names, and many of them have enough...

Here’s Every Round Of Pro275 Eliminations From Lights Out 11 At South Georgia Motorsports Park!

Pro275, the newest class in 275 drag radial racing, is the king of the small tires. Taking everything from Radial vs The World, but on a smaller tire, this class promises to be one of the harder to...

Will Procharged Pro Mods Make Roots And Nitrous Combos Go The Way Of The Dinosaurs? Tim McAmis Thinks They Might. Watch This.

When Procharged Pro Mod combinations were first approved in the Mid West Pro Mod series, everyone was wide eyed and paying attention as the first race featured a Proline Procharged combination that...

Mini Truck On Mags: 1973 Chevrolet LUV With Small-Block Swap

I can hear several of you making that noise right now, the one that informs the wallet that trouble is afoot, the one that informs the significant other that a surprise purchase might be happening...

The Challenger Revival, Part 11: Getting It’s Feet Back On The Ground

Is there anything worse than a car that isn’t sitting on all four tires? I’d say yes. Then again, that’s coming from the guy who left his wife’s first car up on jackstands for...

The Mongrel Project Gets More Paint, Suspension, And More! This Sucker Is Getting Close To Making Noise And Smoke!!!

We love the Mongrel Project, a combination of a cool old British Ford and Mazda Miata that is somehow right in every way. The stance, the width, the flares, the fabrication, it all speaks to us and...

Mental Micro Machine: 550 Horsepower Mini Cooper, Because It’s A Great Idea

One car that I have yet to experience is a legitimate Mini. Not the BMW versions that are at least twice the size, but a real-deal Mini. The one that everybody adores. The one from The Italian Job....

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Morning Symphony: The Moonshine Missile Granada At Lights Out 11

of If you haven’t been following the antics of Chad and the Team Bigun group of guys for the $10K Shootout series, you need to. A combination of racing know-how, parts working and the bent to...

McLeod Racing Introduces Aluminum SFI Bellhousing for 5.0L Coyote Drag Racing Applications

Going fast isn’t hard to do with the right power adder and a newer Coyote. With boost, or nitrous, or both, these suckers can haul ass and that means SFI rated bellhousings are a necessity for...

Tennessee Drift Day 2020 Gallery: Wearing That Groove Back Into The Track!

As I watched the trailers and cars roll into Beech Bend on a quickly warming Saturday morning, a thought occurred to me: this is just like throwing bird seed in the driveway. When I was younger, I...

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: ECTA Spaceport America 1.5 Mile Invitational Shootout Continues This Morning!

When Steve and Suzy and the gang from the ECTA called me and asked if I wanted to help out at the ECTA Spaceport America 1.5 Mile Shootout, I said “Sure, how can I help?”. When they said...