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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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Goodguys Columbus 2018 Photo Coverage: Our First Peek At The Massive Show In Ohio

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – There are a list of about 50 events everyone needs to do in this country before they are permanently riding in the passenger seat. Goodguys Columbus is one of them....

Morning Symphony: More Automotive Awesomeness From The 2018 Goodwood Festival Of Speed!

The stage show that is the Goodwood Festival of Speed is over and done, but we still have plenty of footage of drool-worthy machines from all forms and eras of motorsports that took the stroll up the...

Mack-Nificent: This 1965 Mack B-61 Wrecker Is Painted In Texaco Colors And Is Ready To Work

(By Greg Rourke) – Here we go, the trifecta of big truck cool. It’s a Mack, it has an correct era wrecker, and it’s a 1965 B61. Seller says it was sold new in Atlanta and never...

$50,000 Payday! Mid-West Pro Mod Racing Series Announces The Elite 16 Race Presented By Elite Motorsports – Winner Takes All!

Big news coming out of the Mid-West Pro Mod Racing Series camp late last night! Keith Haney has announced the details for the Elite Motorsports, LLC Elite 16 race, an event separate from the regular...

End Of The Line: Here’s Our Last Gallery Of 2018 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Photos

(Photos by Mike and Jon Brooks) – Just like the Power Tour our coverage of said event had to come to an end sometime, right? Mike and Jon Brooks provided days and days of great images that...

Lookin’ A Little Tipsy There: Watch As This Autonomous Mustang Straggles Up The Course!

First off, who felt that it was necessary to take a 1965 Ford Mustang and give it the ability to drive itself? In what meeting did the green-light for that project happen? You can hear the shrieking...

Money No Object: A 1957 Chevrolet 150 The Way We’d Order One…Bare-Bones With The Fuelie Motor!

Motorsports in 1957 wasn’t exactly a thing. In fact, there was still a very dark cloud surrounding the idea of racing that was a direct result of the horrific crash that occurred at the 1955 24...

Sounded Better On Paper: This 1948 Fiat Topolino Street Legal Altered Seems To Touch All The Bases

Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt you would be the cruise night hero. Undisputed and undefeated for as many trips as you wanted to make to your local burger joint, they’d know your name and say...

Video: Get A Cool Cutaway Look At The New Aeromotive Gen II Stealth Tanks! Brilliant Design

We have been telling you about Aeromotive’s neat Gen II Phantom gas tanks and now there is some great cutaway video that shows you in even more detail about what we have been talking about. The...

Rough Start: This 1979 Ford Mustang Is A Great Start To A Late-Model Restoration…Period Correct Looks And All!

If you want to stay out of the traditional 1964-72 musclecar era machines, but are interested in a neat project car that you can actually put together for decent cash, you’d be hard-pressed to...

This 1963 Former Civil Defense International Scout Is Freaking Awesome! Buy IT!

Old International Scouts are awesome in basically any form you can find them in but this one? This 1963 model that was first ordered by the US Government and then turned over to a volunteer fire...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Woodchucks And Melting Roads!

Enjoying the summer? You should be! We’re all busy here at BangShift and are running from event to event! Here at BS Mid-West, we are especially excited, because this week, come hell or high...

2018 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Photos: Mike Brooks and His Brother Jon Got Great Stuff On The Banks!

(Photos by Mike and Jon Brooks) – One of the thing the guys who like to talk smack on the Power Tour fair to realize is that this is an event about using your car and not just parking it in a...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Opinion On Automotive Restoration Apprenticeships?

(Photo: Wiltshire Times) Within the last few years, there has been a kickback against the “go to college, get that degree, make that money” line of thinking that has persisted for...