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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Touch Nothing Inside: This 2000 Ford Super Duty Limo Can Be Your Rockstar Dream!

If for no other reason, the write-up on this 2000 Ford Super Duty limousine needs to be saved for the historical files. Limousines have a shelf life: they start out coveted, perform high-end work,...

Question of the Day: Given $5,000 and 10 Minutes to Spend It, What Speed Parts Would You Buy?

Let’s play a high speed, gearhead version of Brewster’s Millions, except this is BangShift Thousands. You’re walking down the street and a guy hands you $5,000, sticks a Summit...

Historical Footage: Plymouth Television Ads From 1967-1971 – GTX, Road Runners And More!

In the later 1960s and early 1970s, Plymouth’s place in the Mopar hierarchy as the hand-me-down cheap brand was being quickly overshadowed by their position as the cheap performance brand. No...

Rough Start: 1977 Ford F-150 – Hot Rodding By Hank Hill

When the only nit-pick item I can find is a roll pan out back that doesn’t look that bad, I really have nothing to offer. This 1977 Ford F-150 is a find and a half at four thousand dollars. The...

Viking Funeral: Sending A Detroit 8V71 Off In One Last Fiery Farewell

Nobody wants to see the end to anything they cherish and hold dear. We mourn and feel anguish when a loved one dies. We shed tears and console ourselves as best as we can when a beloved pet makes the...

NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Sunshine And Sweet Rides

If Friday’s qualifying runs of the NDRL had been set in the perfect early Fall scene of gloomy, gray and with the threat of rain, then Saturday was the ideal Fall day: warm enough to be nice,...

Great Video: The Weekend They Made Bristol Motor Speedway A Dirt Track – World Of Outlaws Action On The Wildest Short Track In The Country

It was an insane move that people initially scoffed at when the suggestion was made but eventually everyone came around. When officials at Bristol Motor Speedway were approached about running World...

Ford Fans Rejoice – Holley’s Terminator X System Is Now Available For Ford Applications!

Remember the 1990s, when computer chips for the factory ECUs was all the rage? Remember how fun it was to click the key back and forth just to count how many times the “check engine”...

The Fiero Revival: A Once-Over Of The Entire Rear Subframe, Engine And Transmission!

We’re following the revival of Ronnie Finger’s 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 not because it’s an exciting or rare car, but because this is proof that even a straight-up novice can get the...

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NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Mellowing Out With The Classics

It’s been a busy year for BangShift. We’ve been bouncing around the country covering shows, attending races, moving in Chad’s case, and we still have a ways to go. We get a quick...

Morning Symphony: RallyLegend 2019 From San Marino – Who Doesn’t Need Some Rally Car In Their Lives?

Any car made into a race car becomes ten thousand times cooler. Without question. Ford Mustang II…stock, most of you would be yelping, complaining and openly retching, but if the “Sudden...

Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: Is This The End?!

Yep, we’ve come to the end of our coverage from Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and the NMRA’s World Finals event at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We went into the...

Money No Object: The Tan Turbo-T Regal Sleeper Setup

The Grand National was a wicked little piece: all-black, turbocharged V6 power that was a sincere threat to the “no replacement for displacement” crowd, one of the baddest cars of the...

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Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest Short Take: The 2005 Mustang GT With War Wounds

In a sea of show-worthy cars and pretty race machines, a 2005 Mustang GT wearing some wrinkled body panels on one side didn’t seem right. In fact, when I first saw the Mustang rip through the...