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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Horsepower For Peanuts: This Dude Takes A Forlorn Chevy 307 And For Nearly No Money, Makes A Fun Little Engine

The 307ci Chevy small block was never intended to be a performance engine. This was a piece designed as a prime mover for any number of cars and trucks in the Chevrolet and GMC families over the...

Flowmaster Releases Giant Assortment of Exhaust Products Just For Trucks – Active Mufflers Included!

This is one of the most insanely huge releases of exhaust systems and parts we have ever seen from an established company. Normally we see a system or two come out at a whack  but when you scroll...

Update: Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Start Of Racing Delayed Until Tuesday

Here’s the latest update on Bonneville Speed Week 2019: SW 2019 Update #10 (8/11/19): Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. we will start racing. There will be no Pre-Stage it is first come first serve and the...

The Pile Of Parts: It’s A Chevy Truck With Big-Boy Power And A List Of Donor Vehicles A Mile Long

Frame: 1989 Chevrolet S-10. Cab: 1951 Chevrolet with 1952 doors. Bed: 1962 Chevrolet, modified to fit. Engine: 496ci big Chevrolet that’s somewhere near 700 horsepower with the help of just a...

At Least You Didn’t Pay The Painter: Who Wants This Killer 1976 Chevy Van?

I have zero shame in admitting that I’m a sucker for top-tier paint work. I’m not talking “fresh out of Maaco” paint. I’m talking the kind of paint work that House of...

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Todd Paton, Driver Of The Paton Racing Top Fuel Dragster, Starts Performance Data Systems To Support Racers

We are super excited for our friend Todd Paton, driver of the Paton Family Top Fuel Dragster, as he is taking a leap into a new business venture after leaving Racepak Data Systems recently. Todd has...

Real Micro Machines: The Hot-Rodded Power Wheels Hit The Dirt Track!

There’s something kind of sad about hearing a Power Wheels in action. We’re not sure if it’s the fact that they always sound like an electric drill that’s about ten seconds...

Classic YouTube: From The Forge To Your Morris, Here’s How The Engine Is Built!

Today we don’t think about it much, but the actual creation of an engine is an amazing feat of engineering. Man had to figure out how to work metal to their needs, so bring on the fires and the...

Ken Block Takes His New Raptor Out For Some Shock Tuning So It Will Jump Better!

Jumping trucks is fun. But it can also be destructive, especially when the suspension on said truck is not setup to absorb the shock of the landing. Take off can be touchy too, but it is the landing...

2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: The Land Of Plenty For Fans Of The Fins

When you look at a car like a 1955-57 Chevrolet, it’s easy to have the legend overrun reality. You want to see that picture-perfect red and ivory Fuelie Bel Air, or the matte black 1955 with...

2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Getting Rowdy With The Oldies

“I didn’t think that many of these things still existed!”, I heard a young guy say to his parents as I walked through the show fields at Beech Bend. Surprise, my dude: while there...

Grab Your White Hat: This 1970 Dodge Dude Isn’t Too Common!

Let’s dive down into the depths of the more curious and weird side of Mopar history, shall we? Let’s go back to mid-1969, and ignore the car side altogether for this trip. We’re...

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Hearing Is Overrated Anyways: Enjoy This Hayabusa-Swapped Toyota Starlet’s Run Up A Hillclimb!

172 horsepower seems pretty paltry, doesn’t it? We live in the age of 797 horsepower cars with payments if you can swing the bill and where 300 horsepower V6s could embarrass the ponycars of...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Guess Who’s In Trouble Over Diesels This Week!

It’s been another busy week at BangShift HQ…Chad brought you nitro awesomeness from the Northern Nationals at US 131, I spent the weekend drowning in Tri-Five Chevrolet heaven, and...