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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Friday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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Best of 2018: Watch The Six Quickest Radial Tire Cars on Planet Earth Make Their Historic Rips

There’s nothing like being at a drag strip when all of the elements of potential performance come together. When the cars are tuned up, when mother nature provides the perfect air and...

Best of 2018: MCR Tuning’s 1998 Ferrari 550 Maranello Is Ready For It’s Debut At LS Fest Bowling Green!

The drive from MCR Tuning’s headquarters in Horse Cave, Kentucky to the park we had chosen to shoot the car at is about thirteen miles. For thirteen miles, I was having one of the best shows...

Best of 2018: This Compilation Of Spectator Drags Wrecks From Beech Ridge Speedway In Maine Is Great

It has been a while since we have peeked in on the Carbon Video YouTube channel and we’re glad that we did. He published a compilation video featuring 10-minutes of spectator drags crashes at...

Best of 2018: This Twin-Engine, 200,000lb Coal Dozer Is A Monster Machine We Never Knew About!

(By Greg Rourke) – What has 8 wheels, two big ass Cummins diesels, and weighs 200,000 pounds? This thing, the Melroe M-870 wheel dozer. Unless this is your first visit to these hallowed pages,...

Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling

It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...

This 216ci Pontiac SD4 Racing Engine Makes More Than 500hp Naturally Aspirated!

Yesterday it was an 800hp, 301ci, naturally aspirated V8 engine and today it is a 500hp, 216ci naturally aspirated four banger. I guess I am on an NA kick these days or like every day I am on an...

Best of 2018: This 1936 Chevrolet Standard Coupe Pick-Up Is A Vision To The Past

I could’ve sat there in the grass for an hour, just staring at what I was looking at. This could’ve easily been the 1930s…there was no noise except for my breathing and a slight...

Merry Christmas From All Of Us At BangShift.com!

On behalf of Brian Lohnes, Chad Reynolds, our families and our BangShift.com sponsors, we would like to wish all of our friends and you, our readers, a very Merry Christmas today. We are going to be...

Best of 2018: Somebody Please Get This 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Racer Back On The Track!

We love the freaks here at BangShift! Ok, maybe it’s more that I personally love the freaks, but one look at this 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and you should at least understand why I’m...

Best of 2018: This Guy Drove Over 20,000 Miles In A TVR Chimera To Hit The Most Northern And Southern Pubs!

Sometimes you hop in the car and take off with no destination in mind…you just drive for the hell of it, stopping at places along the way and generally enjoying the trip, not caring about the...

Best of 2018: This Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Has The One Major Problem Fixed!

(There’s no time like the present to RWD swap every FWD machine! -ed.) I never thought the Chevrolet Lumina looked bad as a two-door, especially as the Z34. Sloping, aero-ish nose? Spoiler and...

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Best of 2018: This Little Lady Is Restoring Her Own Volkswagen Beetle!

A common thread that pops up about once a month is how the car community is doomed because “young folk” aren’t into the hobby. “Young folk”, which essentially means...

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Best of 2018: Watch as Mario Racicot’s 24-Cylinder Freightliner Argosy Threatens To Take The Weight Sled Home!

Information on what you’re going to see here is thin, but here’s what we have: You’re looking at a 2014 Freightliner Argosy that started out as a glider truck…that means you...

Listen To These Old Diamond P Sports Music Beds And Smile Like Us!

So about a week ago I wandered into a YouTube channel that had virtually every awesome music bed from the old American Sports Cavalcade and Diamond P Sports days of television greatness in it....