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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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This 2015 Camaro Z/28 Has 255 Miles And A Pricetag Less Than $60,000 – Time To Buy?

When the 5th generation Camaro Z/28 was released, a couple of things happened. Firstly we realized just how serious  the engineers at GM were when developing this car because it is a true bad ass...

Watch as Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud Try Out Their New Ford Focus RS RX Race Cars

There is nothing like the first time behind the wheel of a new car, and for Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud, it had to be extra special, because it represented the...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Buy A Vauxhall, Buy A Lincoln, And Please Keep Buying Mustangs!

What a week it’s been here at BangShift! Between tons of live-feed, racing, car shows and more, we almost managed to forget about digging through the growing inbox of news clips and spats that...

Watch The Spring Fling Million Bracket Race REPLAY From Las Vegas Right Here!

The Spring Fling Million Bracket Race is the West Coast’s biggest and baddest bracket race. Period. And when you consider the size of the purse on each of the 4 days of racing, the giveaways,...

This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!

(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...

Wandering Colossus: This Former Big Foot Truck Went From Major Movie Stardom To The Corner Of A Florida Midway- How?

In today’s world few people likely remember the story of legendary boxer Joe Louis. The man had an incredible career that literally made him an American hero at its peak. Like many boxers he...

AutoMeter Direct Fit Mounting Solutions Line Expands With New Part Numbers

AutoMeter is an instrument company but they are also a solutions company. Offering parts and pieces that now range from battery chargers to tire gauges, to the instruments you want for your classic,...

eBay Find: This Huge Remote Control Model Of The Ill-Fated Japanese Battleship Yamato Could Be Yours

In the realm of odd things to want to own, a huge remote control version of what is likely the most ill-fated battleship in the history of humankind is pretty close to the top. Like a remote control...

This Mazda RX-3 Is Angry! This Turbocharged 13B-powered Terror Is Good For 7.61@175 MPH At The Top End!

Until I saw this car, I never thought of a Mazda anything as an angry car. For that matter, what makes a car “angry”? That part is simple: An aggressive look, a pissed-off noisemaker...

The WTF? Files: It’s A Mercury Cougar Chopper, Powered By A Chevy Mill!

The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird...

Lonestar Round Up 2016: Photos From The Massive Texas Hot Rod Happening

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It has become one of the premier hot rod destination shows in the world and year after year it just keeps getting better. We’re talking about the massive...

Incredible! Watch The Plymouth Air Radial Truck Make Its First Drive – Radial Airplane Engine Power!

The world of hot rodding never ceases to amaze us. New ideas emerge and are executed when even the most hopeful among us think that the human brain is mined out. Take for example this stunning...

She Left To Buy A Two-Seater Sporty Car, But Now This Ten-Second 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Little More Than That!

Owning a SubLime colored Mopar is one of the easiest ways to make sure people stop and look at your car, even at a Mopar show. At ChallengerFest, there were a quite a few bright green pieces rolling...

Muscle Mass: Big Horsepower And A Big Sticker Price – Does The 2016 Yukon Denali Deliver?

I’m always interested to see how the neighbors or my friends happen to react to a given test car or truck showing up at the BangShift eastern world offices. We have had some interesting stuff...