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OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Regular Season Champions Crowned Barber Motorsports Park seals regular season titles in OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series
(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by AutoZone, gives regular enthusiasts the opportunity to compete against each other in five...
Chasing Championships In Northern California: Ultimate Street Car Competitors Try To Lock In Their Championship Titles At Thunderhill!
(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by AutoZone, requires competitors to run in at least two events to accumulate points toward a...
More Holley Ford Fest 2025 Show And Race Coverage: We’ve Got Photos From This Giant Ford Show In Bowling Green Kentucky!
Ford Fest is like LS Fest, but only for Ford powered machines. We’re talking drag racing, car show, autocross, 3S challenge, drifting, burnout contest, and so much more. It is a riot, and a...
Our Holley LS Fest 2025 Photos Just Keep Coming: Check Out All The Cool Cars and Trucks From The Biggest LS Fest Ever
The 2025 edition of Holley’s LS Fest East was HUGE, in fact the biggest ever, and the cars, trucks, and oddities on hand were second to none. Every single type of entry for this event, from...
Photos From Round Four of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Series: Pittsburgh Marks the Midway Point for the 2025 Season!
(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) With four events in the books for OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by AutoZone, we’ve reached the midway point of the season....
Ultimate Street Cars on the West Coast: OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Series heads West to Laguna Seca
(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) After two stops West of the Rocky Mountains at Sebring and NOLA Motorsports Park, OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by AutoZone headed...
Round Two of Ultimate Street Cars: New Orleans Plays Host To The Second Stop for the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Series
(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) With the exception of the Summit Racing Spirit of the Event award, there are generally two ways to earn an invitation to the OPTIMA Ultimate Street...
Greg Heinrich’s 1967 Camaro: A Speed Demon in White
In the heart of Hesperia, California, a rust-covered gem lay waiting to be transformed into a roaring street racing legend. Rodger of Ironworks Speed and Kustom had just acquired the skeleton of a...
Car Feature: The Crusty Camaro 1.0. Near Perfection, Patina And All.
The Crusty Camaro 1.0 When you’re used to rebuilding piles of rust from the ground up, restoring a car that doesn’t need major repairs is a walk in the park. For Rodger Lee of Ironworks Speed and...
Video: SEMA 2011: Detroit Speed is EVERYWHERE!!!!
Here at BangShift.com we are proud to have the finest suspension system companies on the planet as part of our great group of sponsors. It means we get to hang out with great people who really know...
Event Coverage UPDATE: Carbon Customs presents the 2011 Run to Music City
Here at BangShift, we are all about driving your hot rods. If that means a trip to the local cruise night once a week, great. A roadtrip? Even better. But if you actually go out and put all your...
Sponsor News: Detroit Speed Joins the BangShift.com family of sponsors.
BangShift.com would like to welcome Detroit Speed and Engineering to the BangShift family of sponsors. We pride ourselves on having the industries best companies as sponsors here at BangShift.com and...