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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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2016 Memories Video: Jay Payne Has A Very Bad Day During Pro Mod In St Louis

Earlier this week, I shared a video memory of some wild pro mod action in Atlanta, well today I’m fast forwarding to the St Louis NHRA event and a run that went very, very wrong. The St Louis...

The Racepak Christmas 2016 Video Is Out, And Proves Even Santa Can’t Do Without The Data

The guys at Racepak are always coming up with funny stuff, and have a lot of fun making funny Christmas videos, but this year’s may be the best yet. It’s hard to believe that the...

The Famoso Speed Shop Opel Is For Sale! Selling To Fund Nostalgia Funny Car!

If you have watched any of our Good Vibrations March Meet coverage, ever, then you have seen some of the cars of the Famoso Speed Shop. They all rule. They are all this awesome green. And they are...

Drag News: Bradenton Motorsports Park Switches To NHRA Sanction

If there is a track that dominates the early season drag racing headlines more than Bradenton Motorsports Park we’re unaware of what that place is. Seriously. With an insanely good surface, the...

On The Naughty List, No Doubt: This Blown 1976 Pontiac Sunbird Is Straight-Up Devilish!

Everybody remembers the Vega and the Monza, Chevrolet’s H-body cars, but can you name another without thinking about it for a few seconds? It might take a few minutes, but sooner or later the...

2016 Memories Video: Losing My Mind As Dan Page Wins Top Alcohol Dragster At Indy

Without a doubt the most memorable moment of my 2016 drag racing year and the most memorable moment of my so-called career of drag race announcing came at Indy. Specifically it came during the final...

Here’s The Craziest Drag Racing Video Of 2016: Urban Hillbilly’s Carnage Fest!

Throughout the year Sean Melton and the crew at Urban Hillybilly Action Videos deliver some of the best drag racing footage from races all over the country. Once a year, Melton compiles the most...

This Mercury Capri Is Turbocharged, But That Isn’t A 2.3 Under The Hood! Check Out What This 2JZ-Powered Fox can do!

The 2JZ Toyota 3.oL inline-six is a legend in the world of Japanese imports, for good reason: it doesn’t take a lot of work to make one crank out stupid power. There’s a reason why the...

OUCH! Watch Jason Cantu Suffer A Massive Wreck In The La Vicktoria Chevy S10

(Video credit: National No Prep Racing Association and Texas Drag Racing Videos) – Larry Larson has one rule when it comes to where he races. No guardrails. We mention that because when you...

Plain Wrapper: A Nitrous Infused, LS-swapped 1984 Ford LTD Street/Strip Stomper

In an auto shop class in Colorado Springs in the fall of 1999, I came across a unicorn of a car, a Ford LTD LX. For those that don’t know the story, Ford and Bondurant partnered up to build...

Show Coverage: Wagons, Trucks, And Haulers From The 2016 Hot Rod Hullabaloo

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Haulin stuff.  Wagons, pickups, panels, and deliveries.  Lots to talk about in this one.  We like a good clean ‘60s Ford F-series and the one heading...

Unhinged: McTaggart’s Favorite Moments From 2016

Brian and Chad promised that 2016 would be one hell of a year, and they delivered in mass amounts. From shows and events to race coverage and even test-drives, 2016 will go down as the year I truly...

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Blank Canvas: How Would You Build This Minty 1975 AMC Hornet?

Here at BangShift, we are not shy about our love for AMC’s. These quirky cars from Kenosha always stand out in the crowd, and better yet, they can be built into serious speed machines. But...

Another Track Dead? It Appears That The TopGear Test Track Is Doomed To Become Apartments

For over a decade, Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, United Kingdom, has had the distinction of being considered by a worldwide audience the ultimate point of judgement for a vehicle’s performance:...