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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Saturday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Saturday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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This 1979 Mercedes-Benz Unimog Expedition Camper is RAD!!!!

I can’t be the only one who’s dreamed of getting into an off-road expedition camper and taking off in whatever direction speaks to me, just to see where the road, or dirt, will take me....

Bitchin’ Boat Hauler: This Chevy Lays Down Nines As Long As The Tires Stick!

If you grew up reading magazines in the 1990s, you’d swear that General Motors was paying off builders left and right to customize C1500s all day long, but out of the box, any Chevy or GMC that...

ChallengerFest 7 Gallery: Modern Mopars At Beech Bend! Chargers, Challengers, Chryslers And More!

You don’t carry the name “Hemi” and not race the damn thing, do you? No, you don’t. No matter how pretty, no matter how restored, no matter how new…if you are the proud...

Project Raven: We Assess The Health Of Our 400 Chrysler Big Block With The Help Of Knieriem Racing Engines

It’s been a little less than a year since our last substantial update involving Project Raven, our 1983 Imperial coupe, and we wish we could say we’ve been doing tons of work on the big...

Paging Rickenbacker to the Sponsorship Phone: Swedish Racing Series Will Host ‘Lemmy 500’ in September

Do you know about Motörhead? Of course you know about the heavy metal deities? Good. Do you know about the V8 Thunder Cars series in Sweden? No? You should. Basically, it’s analogous to the...

Barnstormin’: Baghdad Bob And The New Power Of Words

Remember the guy you see in the image both above and below? His real name is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf but we here in the USA came to know him as Baghdad Bob during the 2003 invasion of Iraq....

Bob Vandergriff Racing Disbands Top Fuel Team Effective Immediately – Shocking News

After the recent passing of C&J Energy founder and CEO Josh Comstock, many wondered aloud what the fate of Bob Vandergriff Racing would be. Comstock was the driving force behind...

Ronnie The King Davis Passes Following Horrific Rockingham Crash, Journalist Ian Tocher Injured In Wreck

(Photo credit: David Whealon) – Following a massive crash at Rockingham Dragway, racer Ronnie The King Davis has passed away from injuries sustained in the wreck. The crash happened on...

Tech Video: Here’s How To Properly Dial Indicate Your Bell Housing – Do It Once, Do It Right, Keep Your Manual Trans Happy!

If you are getting ready to install a manual transmission in your car or truck, you need to watch this video and follow the procedure outlined in it which will keep your trans happy and operating...

Restore This REO Bottlewagon And Take It On The Run, Baby

Casual music and automotive fans will likely both know of the REO Speed Wagon (and/or Speedwagon if you want to be pedantic about spelling), but few will know about the existence of the REO...

Funny Stuff: Taking Up Donations For A Worthy Cause, Done Right…Or, Don’t Date Crazy!

(Photo: Cody Adams, via V.I.S.I.T) Breakups are the worst, aren’t they? What started out as this amazing thing that two people shared, what brought them close together, has now become a vortex...

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A Hemi Powered Opel Kadett? Old School Race Car Awesome That Could Be Brought Back

I’m a fan of Opels. But in recent years the Opel Kadett in particular has been the one pulling on my heartstrings. So you can imagine how excited I was when I say this Opel Kadett with a Hemi...

eBay Find: This 1972 Mercury Comet GT Would Make An Awesome Cruiser! If You Want A Mustang Alternative, Here It Is!

A 302 and a five-speed in any Ford product outside of an F-600 is a recipe for fun, but when you put it into a Mercury Comet (the Ford Maverick’s fraternal twin), the fun is at it’s...

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Imagine What Mid Engine Fun You Could Build With This! Powerglide/Winters Quick Change Transaxle

You hear about it all the time. The guy who starts a project just because of a set of wheels he found, or a blower and injector hat, or an engine. It all starts with one thing. Well this is an...