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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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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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2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Coverage: More Images From The Wet n’ Wild Gathering!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The Hullabaloo is the pinnacle event of many throughout the year to raise money for Shelby’s Way and to spread the message of suicide prevention...

Cruisin’ For A Cure 2018 Photos Galore: We Love This Show, The Cause, and The Cars!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – That lead image? That is basically peak Vega. The turbine wheels, the orange on whatever the hell color that is, the square snorkel scoop. Yes, there’s no more...

Watch An AFCO Shock Get Put Through Its Paces On A Sprint Car Down Under!

AFCO makes some of the toughest and best shocks in the suspension business. Know why? The main reason is because they race their stuff and they race it HARD. From autocrossing pro street cars to wild...

Goodbye, Jimmy: New England Based Drag Racing Legend Jimmy King Has Died – 1971 Gatornationals Winner, Great Guy

In crummy news today, we are sad to report on the passing of New England drag racing legend Jimmy King, driver of the famed King and Marshall top fuel dragster and later their El Diablo nitro funny...

2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show Photo Coverage: A One Day SoCal Hot Rodding Extravaganza – Good Stuff

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re back with more coverage from the 2018 Cruisin For A Cure car show that took over swaths of SoCal a few weeks ago. Whenever you get more than 3,000 cool...

Blowed Up: Check Out The Remains of This Severely Dead Kawasaki V-Twin Engine – OUCH!

(By Doug Gregory) – We all know nitro is a heartless mistress and will inflict whatever damage to expensive engines she chooses. Gasoline can be the bratty little sister who will also have her...

2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Was Another Great Event: BangShift Photos Coverage Here!

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – Rain, rain, and more Rain.  However, there are periods between the rain sessions where it’s not actual precipitation and is instead simple 90%+...

2018 Cynthiana Rod Run Coverage: Tractors, Trucks, and Working Stuff From The Show!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This collection and the next will probably be the most-liked by our beloved editor.  Brian has a thing for ‘working’ vehicles whether it be farm...

Mark Williams Enterprises Rear End Options Offer Convenience, Options, Quality, and Engineering – Why Consider Anyone Else?

Mark Williams Enterprises is known for a host of effective, hardcore, and high quality products. They are really, really well known for their rear axles and the associated components that they have...

In 1967 The GMC Advertising Department Apparently Lost Their Minds – Watch Three Weird Truck Ads

There have been plenty of weird, quizzical, and downright strange car commercials over the years but the GMC advertising department or agency really cornered the market in 1967. We’re not sure...

Drag History Video: Here’s the Broadcast Of The 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals – The Weekend The 5-Second Barrier Fell

They’re just numbers. They are just digits on a slip of paper or on a scoreboard. That’s what the world sees. That’s what people who have never measured themselves against time,...

Epic Video: Footage Of Evel Knievel’s Huge Custom 1974 Mack Truck At The Mack Factory In The 1970s

I’ve shared my opinion of Evel Knievel many times here on the pages of BangShift. He was an insanely courageous man certainly no one that will ever be considered for sainthood.  All that...

Historic Drag Video: This Footage From The 1981 Olympics Of Drag Racing Is Awesome

Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week rolls into historic Great Lakes Dragaway today. This place, which rose to prominence behind the creative, wacky, and tireless work of the late Broadway Bob Metzler is cool....

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Worst Engine You’ve Ever Owned?

After a couple if years ago after realizing that the horrible engine in our former family truckster 2006 Pacifica consumed motor oil at roughly the same rate it consumed gasoline, I got to thinking...