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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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The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The HISTORY of Alabama’s Favorite Wheelstanding Farm Truck!

Only in the 1960s did a track like Baileyton Goodtime Dragstrip have an in house wheelstander. I mean it wasn’t theirs, but was regularly seen at the track and there are tons of stories about...

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BangShift’s Question Of The Day: Which Of These Two Cars Represents The 1970s More?

We’ve played the “car from the year you were born” game here. 1983 was a crap year for cars, unless you wanted a Jeep Scrambler or have a pang in your chest for a four-eye Fox-body...

The Sound Of Money Disappearing: The Ferrari 250 GTO Crash At The 2017 Goodwood Revival

The value of a Ferrari 250 GTO currently lies between $48-$70 million. Each of the 36 production cars are different, each are beautiful, each are eye-wateringly expensive, and any time any owner...

OPGI’s Pre-Columbus Day Sale Means That You Can Save 15% Off Thousands Of Parts!

We’re back with more good news from OPGI. These guys and girls are all about making deals and helping you save money. Welp, with their Pre-Columbus Day sale that’s raging at the moment,...

Monster Truckin’: Action Photos From The GALOT Motorsports Park Monster Truck Throwdown!

(Photos by David Whealon) – You know when the boys and girls at GALOT Motorsports Park throw a monster truck party it is going to be a good one, right? That was the case with the recent...

Kentucky Truck Tuggers Action Coverage: 4-Wheel Drive Combat At 4,300 and 6,000lbs!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Truck Tug-o-war.  This is an event that likely began once there were two trucks in the same vicinity as a handy length of rope.  The Kentucky Truck...

Historic Charge: Watch Dean Marinis Make The First Nitrous Pro Mod Run Into The 5.50s! 5.57/255 – Insane

We have talked about Dean Marinis here at BangShift plenty over the years. The guy has been an absolute killer in a multitude of drag racing classes, most famously X275 with his orange Mustang, but...

Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest and NMRA’s World Finals: More Photos From The Blue Oval Throwdown!

I struggled all day on Sunday to shoot a photo of anything that wasn’t a Mustang on the drag strip. I know, NMRA and Mustangs go hand-in-hand, but with the Ford Fest going on as well, I was...

Rough Start: This 1990 Pontiac Firebird Formula Is A Great Blank Canvas. How Would You Build It?

As Rough Start finds go, this 1990 Pontiac Firebird Formula is a peach. What’s there to need? It’s a five-speed V8 car with a solid roof, the WS6 package, four-wheel disc brakes, and is...

Letting Off Steam: Car Wars From Beech Ridge, Where Nothing Seems To Be Safe

In a perfect world, free from litigation, free from the urgent need to sue the holy hell out of someone because something may have happened, there would be easier ways to enjoy some rowdy,...

Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest Short Take: The Two Most Unloved Mustangs Done Well

To the outsider (read: not the Blue Oval loyal fan or the Mustang fan-boy) you would think that the Mustang’s time on this planet was actually composed of two eras. One started in 1964 and...

Bad Kitty: This Hellcat’s Dyno Day Ended In A Spectacular Fashion…And Burning Brakes

The dyno room is not a play place, and the moment you see it treated as such is the moment you and your car just need to leave. You’re strapping up a few tons of metal to a roller drum and...

Wherever I May Roam: The Vityaz DT30 In Action In The Worst Off-Roading Terrain Ever!

For those who haven’t spent a lot of time around the military, let me assure you: tanks and tracked vehicles are not the normal, everyday deal. You’ll see them, but they rarely get used...

Engine As Art: This 1955 Lancia V6 Is A Power Plant Too Gorgeous To Hide Under A Hood

Lancia is not a car company that we talk about much around here. The never had a huge footprint in the USA but their legacy in Europe and Italy specifically looms pretty large. This was a company...

Tuggers! Check Out These Photos Featuring Tug Of War Trucks From The Scott County Fair In Kentucky

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – While the four-wheel-drive truck tuggers are entertaining, the two-wheel-drive rigs are a completely different animal. As you might guess, steering is not...