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OG SMALL TIRE RACING IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! KILLER STREET AT ELK CREEK DRAGWAY JUNE 2026!!!!

Oooh yeah! Elk Creek Dragway is something special, and with racing like this we understand why. In this video you’ll see Killer Street 275/28 and more as the 5.30 and 6.30 index classes take...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Full Race | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from WWT Raceway

Just a couple of weekss after the famed Indy 500, the IndyCar Series was back at it for another weekend of racing. This time it was at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 World Wide Technology Raceway...

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Finnegan’s 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Drag Car Build Is Getting Closer! Interior At Home. Check It Out.

I talked to Mike the other day and he said that they are seriously working on the Cadillac to get it on the road this year. Sure, there is a lot to do, but they keep chipping away at it and in the...

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They CLOSED a Public Road for a Street Race and Heavy Hitters Came Out! Cash Days Street Racing Greatness!

We’ve livestreamed a few city sanctioned street race events over the years, and have heard of a few others, but it never gets old to hear that folks want to see Cash Days street races to go...

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New Right-Angle Impact Totally Resets the Scoreboard! These Aren’t Supposed To Be This Good!

Right angle impacts have really made a splash recently, and if you are like me and think they are just an over hyped cordless ratchet, you’d be wrong. Yes, I said it, I was wrong. I love me...

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Check This Out: A 1,300 Horsepower Twin-Turbo Restomod 1974 Road Runner

There are only so many cars out there, folks. Sooner or later, desirable cars will all be spoken for and then what? I’ve been railing on for years about the smog-era cars, the Malaise-era...

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Unhinged: Meet The Fiat 500L Tiberio Taxi…It’s A Tropical Taxi For Blind Tourists, We Think.

There is nothing wrong with saying that I’m not a fan of pretty much anything Fiat. I don’t like the 124 Spyder. I don’t like the 500, new or old. And I’m very hard-pressed to...

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If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!

It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...

Freaky Funny Car Barn Find: Odd Chassis And Configuration Have Us Scratching Our Heads

This is truly a case of a story being more than skin deep. Most people would look at this 1969 Nova bodied funny car and think that it was some sort of old match racer or nitro burner from the glory...

BangShift Project Files: A Root Beer Brown 1972 Buick Skylark Droptop That Is Getting Some Love

You really can’t go wrong with any of the GM A-bodies made between 1968-1972. They are popular, have an amazing aftermarket, look solid no matter how you build them, and are one of the few...

Record: Watch The First 250+ MPH Quarter Mile Pass By A Six Cylinder Car EVER – EKanoo Does It!

We were alerted to an awesome piece of drag racing history that happened today in Bahrain by Bret Kepner when he sounded the alert that the first 250+ mph quarter mile pass ever made by a six...

Epic Troll Bernie Ecclestone Declares F1 ‘Worse Than It Has Ever Been’, Tells Reporters He Wouldn’t Pay To Watch

If there is one thing that Formula One honcho Bernie Ecclestone can never be accused of it is hiding his feelings. The guy says what he thinks and has built up a layer of armor around him thick...

Mud Bog Time Machine: More Rigs, More Muck, and More Action From Oklahoma In The 1980s

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part three of our time-traveling adventure takes us to my hometown (Blackwell, OK) and the mud events there.  I believe most of these were put on by the...

Merrill Ice Drags Coverage: Huge Horsepower, Spikes, And Hot Rods On A Frozen Lake

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – As a Midwesterner, I’ve always hated winter. Those vile white flurries mean salted roads and the end of gearhead fun; no more cruising, no more racing,...

The Edelbrock Big Carb Deal Is BACK! Buy A Carb and Get and Air Cleaner Plus A Fender Cover FREE!

You know a promotional offer is pretty great when a company has been able to offer it to customers for nearly a decade. That’s the case with the Edelbrock “Big Carb Deal” which...

Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Calgary World Of Wheels

(Photos by Ashley Howard) – We have to throw a special thank you to Ashely Howard for providing the images we have used for the last few days featuring the best of the best at the Calgary...

Crazy Craigslist Find: The 1974 ‘Cuda Tooling Proof Body Is For Sale – Quite Literally The First One Made

There are honestly very few opportunities that people get to buy something that can rightfully be claimed as “the first” or “the only”. Even in the automotive world where...

Photo Tour: The (Literally) Awesome Barber Motorsports Park Museum

(By Eric Rood) – Bangshift recently brought you an extraordinarily bizarre gallery from the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Barber Motorsports Park and if you’ve been to Barber, you know what a...

eBay Find: The One-Year-Only 1975 Plymouth Road Runner – Cop Car Durability And Rarity That Makes Mopar Freaks Weak

Let’s get the complaints out of the way now: Yes, what you are looking at is the 1975-only Plymouth Road Runner. Yes, it is still a B-body, with the underpinnings that debuted in 1971 and the...