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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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This Suzuki Katana-Powered Go Kart Is 100% Nuts, And We Want It!

Go Karts are cool, and you know we love them. Many gearheads and BangShifters got their start wrenching on these small four wheeled vehicles, including yours truly. I remember scrounging $200...

This Custom 6×6 Dodge Van Would Be The Most Bitchin Road Trip Machine

Vans are cool, but some of them are cooler than others. For us, our love of vans in dangerous because we like off-road vans, expedition vans, surf vans, race vans, cruiser vans, retro vans, and full...

Best of 2016: Watch The First Side By Side Three Second Pass On Drag Radials – M/T Tires Of Course!

Let the great big book of drag racing history show that the first two guys ever to turn side by side three second elapsed times on drag radials were Dwayne Mills and Scott King. Mills was driving his...

My Money Car: There’s A Guy Selling A 1998 Ford Taurus That He Glued Nickles and Pennies To For $34,500

This. This is something else. You are looking at My Money Car which is the stage name for a 1998 Taurus that’s currently for sale on Craigslist with the asking price of $34,500. If you are...

Top 11: The Strangest Special Editions We Could Find – The Lengths That Manufacturers Will Go To Sell Cars Are Pretty Long

Special editions are, in my eyes anyways, just a way to peddle more iron out of the door by giving off the illusion that you are holding on to something truly special once you have the keys in hand....

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Roadkill! It’s The Roadkill Boys and the Mighty Car Mods Dudes Together At Last!

Here’s an episode that many Roadkill and Mighty Car Mods fans have been waiting for. For the first time we see two of the internet’s most popular automotive tandems together and having...

History For Sale: Buy The Plans and Prints For The Smokey Yunick Hot Vapor Engine – From DeLorean?!

A big thank you to my friend Todd Coyne for the tip on this. Certainly Smokey Yunick is no stranger to these pages. I believe John Delorean has also been mentioned a coupla’ two-tree times as...

Best of 2016: 3-53 Detroit Diesel Powered 1970 Road Runner: Driving Video Of The Wackiest Swap Ever

We were tipped off to this video of a 3-53 Detroit Diesel Powered 1970 Road Runner by longtime BangShifter Erich Von Dussen who forwarded us the link. What you are about to see is a walk around and...

The Toroidion Electric Supercar From Finland Has The Equivalent Of 1,341hp And Is Insane

We have to thank Finnish BangShifter Jarmo Koivula for the tip off on what could be the most interesting electric car we have ever seen. Built and engineered entirely in Finland, the Troidion 1MW...

BangShift Truck Review: The 2016 Ram Rebel – Is Ram’s Fun Truck Offering Just That?

The 2016 Ram Rebel is an interesting case in that it kind of created its own niche in the already populated pickup truck market. Not as hardcore as a Raptor or a Power Wagon but more capable than...

Red Morning With KC Mathieu Was One Of The Best Internet Videos Of 2016 – Sideways Truckin’!

You know him as KC from Gas Monkey Garage, the relentlessly talented paint and body guy who has been able to turn projects around for Aaron and Richard like no one else could. His full name is KC...

This 1973 Mercury Comet Is Stupid Clean And Would Great With The Front Wheels Up

As in wheelstands baby! Can’t you see this thing on an Outlaw 8.5 or MX 235 tire with the wheels in the air huffing nitrous or taking all the boost you could give it? Some would say that is a...

This Supercharged IROC Convertible Would Be A Great Driver

We dig 3rd Gen Camaros around here. We know all the bad things everyone can say about them, but we still like them. They look cool. They are cheap. They are super easy to modify and make great on the...

Holy Crap We Want This 7.50 Cert 1969 Toyota Corolla Drag Car! $9999!

We’re sure the Hemi headed 4 banger with the giant Precision Turbo on it is a great thing, but we’re glad this sucker is being sold as a rolller. We’d do something different. But...