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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 – Saturday

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 – Saturday

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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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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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Watch One Of The First Monster Truck Bus Crush Attempts – Bear Foot In 1984 Has Axle Breaking Fun

Back in the 1980s, one of the most precarious looking and cool things that monster trucks did was to crush old school buses. They did not actually crush the buses but they did drive across the top of...

NHDRO Results From Indy – Bad Ass Bikes On A Bad Ass Track Makes For Big Fun!

(By Tim Hailey) – Big Money payouts continue to flow from the Midwest’s largest motorcycle drag racing series—NHDRO—into the hands of winning racers. This past weekend it was the bracket...

A Rough Start For The Pontiac Freaks Among Us: A Trophy Four And A Whole Lot Of Work

My pal and fellow NHRA announcing cohort Alan Reinhart sent me this listing for a 1962 Pontiac Tempest sport coupe the other day for consideration as a Rough Start. This is proof that (a) AR reads...

This Is Bonneville: Rebuilding An Amazing Motorcycle In The Bed Of A Truck Sitting In Front Of A Motel 6 Hotel Room

(Editor’s note: As we travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats today we’re thinking of one of the best stories from Speed Week 2017. This is the epitome of why we love this place, why we love...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: Shutting Down The Show In Style!

Saturday was a solid seventeen hours of racing that was arguably some of the best we’ve ever seen. Any and every issue we had prior to Saturday at Street Car Super Nationals V was completely...

Daniel Pharris Is Going Down Under To Race In The Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series’ Radial Riot Event!

Daniel Pharris is a man who knows how to put down the power. We’ve seen him run the Corvette for years, and we’ve been watching him take the Lexus RC-F and do things with it that Lexus...

Ford Produces The 10-Millionth Mustang – That Is Both Awesome And Insane!

The Ford Mustang passed an incredible milestone this week with the 10-millionth one in history having been produced. From the iconic first year cars to the muscular and awesome fastbacks, Cobra Jets,...

How Would You Build It? This 1963 Chrysler Newport Is A Big-Block, Manual Trans Four-Door That Could Be Bitchin’!

Oh, how we all lament the dying off of passenger cars and manual transmissions in this day and age. How we look at plastic covered bumpers on silver lumps rolling down the Interstate and think back...

Watch Mike Moran’s 670ci Billet Hemi Make 5,200hp With A Pair Of Brand New Garrett Turbos – Wicked!

Far be it from me to make the insane suggestion that the true might of the turbocharger had not been unleashed until the world of drag racing really figured them out. Yes, they have been used with...

A Thing Of Beauty: This Arias Hemi-Headed 427ci Small Block Ford Is One Fat Headed Hunk Of Awesome

While the Arias family motto is not officially “Hemi all the things” they have been making that their business for decades on end. From their awesome 8.3L and 10L engines to the...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: The Night Time Is The Right Time

For the better part of Saturday, Chad and I worked in unison on the camera. He’d take off to go run some things or I’d be studying what was going on as an effort to become more involved...

Linda Vaughn Rides Again: Miss Hurst Golden Shifter Was In Her Glory At Carlisle 2018

Linda Vaughn is the first lady of motorsports. She has endured through the decades as a smiling ambassador for all the good stuff that we love about cars and racing. She of course rose to prominence...

Now You’re Just Showing Off: One Wicked Bounty Mud Pit And …A SHERP?

A dug out trench that looks more like an evaporation pit than anything even remotely close to natural and a bunch of mega trucks nearby can only mean one thing: the bounty mud hole is open for...

Dynamite Dart: This 1968 Pro Street Dart Is A Blown 9-Second Time Slip Waiting To Happen

When it comes to good ideas, building a pro street car with a factory style paint job, all the factory chrome, a vinyl roof, steel wheels with dog dis hubcaps, and a blown big block is a good idea....