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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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Asleep For 33 Years, Flooded, And Now Rescued – Stage One Of Junkyard Digs’ 1968 Pontiac LeMans

It’s heartbreaking to think that this car has been parked in the same spot for nearly as long as I’ve been alive and breathing on this planet. Right about the time I was celebrating my...

Aeromotive Gen II Stealth Tanks: The Fuel System Game Has Changed – Stock Tanks, Stock Fit, High Performance!

Aeromotive has changed the fuel system game again! Today marks a new era for hot rodders looking to feed a high performance engine and maintain a stock gas tank that fits in the OEM location. Why?...

Morning Symphony: The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s Cosworth V-12 At 11,000 RPM

In the game of high-dollar exotics, hypercars, and the like nothing is off-limits. Work with whoever, build whatever, just make sure it’s gorgeous to a fault, beyond reproach for speed, and...

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2018 Performance Racing Industry Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, Mills, and BangShifty Stuff!

(Photos by the author) – For all the complaining that people want to do about having to go to Indianapolis in the winter for the 2018 Performance Racing Industry Show, it has not slowed the...

Overkill: Twin LS4s Crammed Into An Acura RSX Should Be Fun!

What makes an ordinary, sane individual look at the project car they have going and mutter to themselves, “You know what? I know what this thing needs…another freaking engine. Yeah,...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Flying Cars Video: Free Life Films Collection Of Cars Launching Skyward Is Impressively Insane

The modern landscape of drag racing looks lots different than it did even 20 years ago, especially when we look at performance. Full bodied cars on comparatively tiny rear tires are doing things that...

This 1940 Chevrolet Film Celebrates Engines In All Their Glorious Forms

One of the basic truths that we hold to be self-evident around here is that if you are reading BangShift you love engines. You like the noise they make, the smells they give off, the parts and pieces...

Dead: Suzuki Hayabusa, The World’s Fastest Production Motorcycle

For almost twenty years, one name has stood above the others in the sport bike world: Hayabusa. The name alone is the Japanese name for the peregrine falcon, a raptor that can easily hit 200 MPH in...

Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!

2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...

2018 PRI Show Coverage: Plenty Of Goodness From The Show Floor At Indy

(Photos: Chad Reynolds) We are back with more coverage from the PRI Show in Indianapolis. PRI is, in short, SEMA with all of the gingerbread, wheel companies, and brodozers left out in the cold....

BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody – 485hp, Fender Flares, Tire Smoke, and True Muscle Car Spirit

(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Lohnes, Sestito, Nutting) – For a guy who does not own a Challenger, I spend inordinate amounts of time in them. Between spending a week with...

The Bloodhound SSC Project Is Dead: Broke and With No Hope Of Funding, Car Is Being Dismantled, Parts Sold

The most ambitious land speed record project in history is dead. The Bloodhound SSC project, a near decade long undertaking to design, engineer, and build the first car capable of going 1,000mph has...

Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!

It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...

AutoMeter Hot Rod Holiday: EVERYTHING Is On Sale, Literally Everything! Check This Out

Many manufacturers run great sales around the holidays and they typically have some great deals to take advantage of. AutoMeter has taken this concept to the next level with their Hot Rod Holiday...