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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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eBay find: This 1949 Ford T6 Wrecker is Flathead Powered Perfection

When it comes to seeking and finding tow trucks on the internet, I probably do it far too often. I love seeing these trucks in all of their various forms. That being said, this one came as a complete...

Fun At The Track And Just A Little Bit Of A Concussion: Carmageddon Show’s Crash Compilation!

It takes guts to strap yourself into a car, fully intending on crashing it. You risk life, limb, mental capacity and more, but for a professional stunt driver, that’s just another paycheck to...

UPDATE: Todd Paton Beats Brittany Force In Round 1 At Epping!!! Career Best Weekend Keeps Getting Better!

UPDATE: Check out our boy Todd Paton! He runs 3.935 at 310.34 mph in Epping to start off his weekend pretty damn good and then starts the rain delayed eliminations with an upset win over Brittany...

Gear Banging Insanty in a 1980s Era Turbocharged F1 Car – Amazing Footage

Today’s F1 drivers use paddle shifters and have steering wheels in their cars with more buttons and functions than a lap top. Back in the 1980s though, things were different. The driver still...

This Bobcat Mounted Automatic Chainsaw and Log Splitter Is Gearhead Genius In Action (Video)

There are few things that I find cooler than attachments that run off of tractors and equipment. From the old belt driven stuff hanging off the back of Ford tractors to dig post holes, run small...

Watch A Blown Hemi Powered Impala Grudge Car Rip Through A Wheat Field While Racing Kye Kelly

There’s guts and then there’s GUTS and Urban Hillbilly’s Sean Melton has both. Last week we showed you his count down of the top 10 insane wrecks he had ever filmed and a couple of...

PJ North’s Newest Drag Racing Hip Hop Song Kills It! Listen Here.

When my good friend Ron Thomas, BangShifter Extraordinaire, introduced me to the music of PJ North a couple years ago I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. A Hip Hop/Rap song about bracket...

Drag Action Photos: Sweet Sportsman Action From Shadyside Dragway – Wheels Up and More

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Last week we showed you some great Benoit Pigeon photos from Shadyside Dragway and their Carolina Xtreme Pro Mod event. As it turns out there were a ton of cars on...

Tire Frying Burnout Action From The US60 Dragway Nostalgia Nationals

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Let there be burnt offerings to Vulcan…..the god of tire smoke.  Had a LOT of good burnout photos for half the cars and not so much the other half. ...

Awesome Video: Ride Along In A 2,500hp Top Sportsman Car As The Driver Wrestles It Down The Track

The coolest thing for me being at the drags as much as I am is meeting the people and learning the stories behind the cars I see. During the NHRA New England Nationals (which are bring finished as...

Theoretical Build: How Would You Build This 1983 AM General Jeep DJ-5?

When I was five, nothing made me happier than to see the red, white and blue Jeep of the mailman drive up Windsor Avenue. It meant that I could run out to the mailbox and spare the mailman the...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Dirt Track Date By Southern Culture On The Skids

I do like dirt track racing. Back in the 70’s I planted my fat ass in the stands at the late great Santa Fe Speedway in Hinsdale, Illinois at least once a week for two full seasons. Back then...

Craigslist Find: Want To Make Your Very Own Cheetah Funny Car Bodies? Now You Can!

For those who were busy worshipping at the altar of Carroll Shelby and the AC Cobra in the 1960s, life was good and Shelby was doing just fine. For fans of General Motors, however, things...

Question Of The Day: How Much Longer Do You Think The Isle Of Man TT Event Will Last Before It’s Shut Down For Safety Reasons?

As of press time, the Snaefell Mountain Course has claimed two competitors from this year’s Isle Of Man TT event: Australian sidecar racer Dwight Beare crashed near Rhencullen and was killed,...