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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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2018 Photo Highlight Reel: Doug Gregory Picks His Favorite Images From The Year (Part 3)

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This last gallery completes my favorite images of 2018 and has the least action of the three.  We did want to make it out to smell race fuel being burnt...

The “WTF?” Files: This Nissan-Powered 1971 Ford Pinto Has Been Worked Over!

Have you ever seen the translation guide to phrases used to sell a car? Where “rare” means “none of these things lasted over ten years”, and “one careful owner”...

2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals: Here’s One Last Truckload of Photos To Check Out

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Welp, we have reached the end of the awesome photos that OG BangShift contributor Joe Grippo sent us from the 2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals car show. We’ve...

Your Machinists’ Nightmare: This Caterpillar D2 Engine Is Beyond Salvation!

I haven’t been playing with the internals of engines long. I’ve done head swaps and stuff like that since I was a kid, but getting into the deep internals of an engine has been a recent...

New Product: Powermaster Performance Introduces Powerful New HPR Series Alternators

The team at Powermaster Performance never rests. Always looking to stay ahead of the competition and looking to produce the best possible products for today’s current marketplace they keep...

2018 Photo Highlight Reel: Doug Gregory Picks His Favorite Shots Of The Year (Part 2)

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This 2nd group of 2018 favorites starts off with one nostalgia event and rolls right into another then another.  We only got in one trip to US60 this...

The Auction Mistake Corvette Is Now Turbocharged And On The Rollers – How Much Power Will Cleetus Make?

The red Corvette that suckered Cleetus out of a few grand has proven to be an interesting watch because it’s the first time I’ve seen a YouTube car build that actually had a real-deal...

2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals Photo Coverage: More Cars, Trucks, Racers, and Hot Rods Under The Lights

(Photos by Joe Grippo) –  This is one of the most unproductive work weeks in America. We know that you don’t want to be at the office. You are thinking about Christmas stuff, family...

Unhinged: Driving The Last Of The Everyday Sedans As The Sun Sets On Them

If you believe all of the signs that are appearing, all of the words that auto journalists are spilling out, the manufacturers that have lost faith, and so on and so forth, we are seeing the end of...

Last Week To Take Advantage Of Promo Code HOLIDAY18 — Save Up To 45% At OPGI NOW!

Hopefully you have already gotten a jump on the holiday shopping for your family members so you can turn your attention back to the important stuff like your car project! OPGI is making it really...

Rough Start: Four Doors Make A Difference On This 1968 Dodge Coronet!

Would you like a mid-sized 1968 Dodge? Even if you aren’t a die-hard Mopar fan, that’s a pretty tempting offer. Think about it for a second…if you were able, would you take a...

Redline Rebuild: The Latest Video In The Series is The Resurrection Of A Dead Tri-Power Pontiac 389!

They’re back! The latest installment of the Redline Rebuild series from Hagerty is the resurrection of a dead Tri-power 389 Pontiac and this one is our favorite yet. Why? The engine really was...

Classic YouTube: Tanner Foust, Shredding The Cheese With A Drift Car

Did you ever hear of the show “Masters of Champions”? Probably not…only a small handful of episodes were aired by ABC before the plug got pulled. I never watched it, but from what I...

Caption This: What Was The First Thing Said To The Insurance Agent About This Crushed Jeep?

Have you seen those Farmer’s Insurance ads of late? The ones where the upright Professor Nathan Burke, the bald gentleman in glasses (played by J.K. Simmons, who has played Dr. Skoda on Law and...