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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 Motorcycled Engined Riding Lawn Mower Is Completely Awesome And We’d Probably Die On It

Given the chance to drive this creation, I’d gladly hand the keys to Chad. Why? Because nothing would give me more joy than to see him, with a big smile on his face, beard flapping in the...

Rough Start: This 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 Could Be Your Investment Car

Out of all of the GM A/G body cars that were built, not one was more polarizing than the 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 Aerocoupe. We will spare you the long story: In short terms, Richard Petty wanted...

Morning Symphony: Listen To This 8-Second Fox Mustang Rip Through The Gears!

Happiness is ripping gears with three pedals, one shifter, and the knowledge needed to launch and shift without turning the clutch to a shredded mess and the gears into neat little metal pellets in...

Can You Fix A Leaky Transmission? If So, This Back-Halved, Mid-Engine V8-Swapped 1982 VW Vanagon Could Be A Great Deal!

The Facebook post from Joe Jolly was innocent enough: “McTaggart! Is this BangShifty?” Not quite sure why I’m the person to ask…half of the time, most people think I’ve...

Video Bonanza: Big Carnage from Stuck Throttles

The other day we were talking about Toyota’s global, epic throttle sticking fail that actually wasn’t and we thought that we’d bring you a bunch of videos showing all different...

Street Car Takeover At Beech Bend: Friday Night Roll Racing Action!

I have certain barometers for whether or not an event will be good, but the ultimate measuring stick I have is when Brian blows my phone up, making sure that I’m going. Street Car Takeover has...

Watch This Huge Russian Truck Pull A Load Of Logs Out Of The Woods And Through The Muck Like A Mechanical Mule

This is one of those rare occasions that we run video from Russia that does not include a beating, a car accident, or some other incredible form of automotive failure. In this video we get a look at...

Watch Tim Cullinan Turn His Front Motor Top Fueler Into A Trike TWICE On The Same Run And Save It!

Front motor top fuel cars are among the least appreciated vehicles in drag racing. Their numbers peaked in the 1990s and have basically declined since then, leaving us with less than two dozen really...

Check This Out: A 1970 Checker Marathon That Never Saw Service Duty!

For many people, the Checker Marathon was and always will be “the” taxicab, while everything else painted yellow is just another replacement. For twenty-one years, the Marathon was...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, It’s Extra Passengers In A Corvette And “Was That A Cop In The Dodge?”

Expecting witty banter? Of course you aren’t, but we have to make a mad dash out of the door to another track this weekend, so we will keep it quick: we’re going to reach into the top of...

This Lifted Crew Cab Beast Could Be Yours. Perfect End Of Days Bugout Rig

The end of the world is coming. Or so the preppers say, which means we’re all going to need some kick ass bugout vehicle that can haul our loved ones, pets, and all the gear we’ll need to...

Class Is Back In Session! Let Professor Pobst Give You The Rundown On Understeer!

Why does understeer suck? Simple…it’s the car taking control completely out of your hands for you while simultaneously sucking all of the fun out of the event of cornering. If you chose...

This 1987 E30 BMW 325is Could Be The Bavarian Corner Carver You Crave

I know a BMW E30 is not the norm around here, but you have to live under a rock if you haven’t noticed the insane number of “Ultimate Driving Machines” that have graced race tracks,...

Bangshift Goes Racing! We Race Our 280Z At Its Very First 24 Hours Of Lemons Event!

(All photos courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted) Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap....