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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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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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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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This 1979 Pontiac Phoenix LJ Is Too Clean For Words – Which Is Strange For A Late 1970s Compact!

Take a moment and think of all of the cars made in 1979 that would be considered worth collecting. Seriously…not just to own, but collect like people do for muscle cars of the Sixties and early...

This 1970 Dodge D100 May Be The Neatest Pickup Truck We’ve Seen – Awesome In Every Way

There was flood of words that come to the tip of my tongue when I saw this truck and none of them are printable. I unabashedly love every inch of this rig and what’s even better than the looks...

Swapped Freak: This Caddy 4.9L V8 Powered 1981 Citation X-11 Has A Four Speed – Want It?

All swaps are not created equal. Some are weird for the sake of being weird. Some are entertaining because they are so wrong, and some, like this one are just plain interesting and different. The car...

11th Annual Edelbrock Car Show Announced: Shop Tours, Big Fun – Be There!

Edelbrock has announced that it will be hosting it’s 11th Edelbrock Car show on May 14th 2016. Not to be missed are shop tours happening on the day preceding the event on May 13th 2016. The...

Check Out This 1940 Studebaker Six Making Some Dyno Pulls – Low-Po Cool!

What kind of person sticks an old Studebaker flathead on an engine dyno? What kind of person builds a pretty awesome tubular intake and header for it? The same type of person who wants to make sure...

How Does A Dodge Charger Hellcat’s Aerodynamics Stack Up To A 1969 Charger Daytona’s Radical Shape? Check This Wind Tunnel Test Out!

The story of the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona is well-known: Ford and Dodge were at each other’s throats in NASCAR racing and had resorted to aerodynamic tricks in order to gain an edge on the...

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Cool Video: The Road To The Mint 400 – Steve Olliges Takes His Retro Awesome Ford To The Desert

The name Steve Olliges has been associated with off-road racing championships and Ford for more than three decades now. The guy has racked up a hall of fame list of accomplishments. As a member of...

Morning Melody: Enjoy The Spine-Tingling Sounds Of A Lexus LF-A Making Dyno Pulls!

Aside from the deliciously violent noises a good old V8 makes, the exhaust song that I could listen to over and over again comes from the Lexus LF-A. I first heard this car at the 2010 SEMA show, and...

More Show Coverage: The 2016 Motorsports, Racer Car and Trade Show – Pennsylvania

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – In what has become a yearly tradition here at BangShift we have Joe Grippo’s photo coverage of the 2016 Motorsports, Race car, and Trade show event from the...

Hot Rod Garage Kicks Off A Budget Buildup Of An $800 Camaro On The Cheap – Meet The “Bonemaro”!

Yep, this looks familiar. Apparently, I have some sort of magnetic draw for beaten and thrashed rubber-bumper second-generation Chevrolet Camaros. When they are clean and nice, they are alright. But...

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Question Of The Day: Are Car Show Project Builds Tainted Goods? Would You Ever Want To Own One?

This week, two Gas Monkey Garage builds crossed my desk in my “For Sale” searches. One was the lime-green 1989 Shelby Dakota that Richard Rawlings couldn’t be bothered to even...

SCCA Track Night In America Driven By TireRack Returns For 2016! 7 Venues Added – This Rules!

  The best program that the SCCA has ever created returns for 2016! Track Night in America is greatness because it is a no hassle, all fun way for you to get your street car onto a road course...

The LS1-Powered Lamborghini Jalpa Is Now Sporting Twin Turbochargers And Is Badder Than Ever!

One of my favorite LS-swapped cars in the world is this 1988 Lamborghini Jalpa from Australia. One of 410 produced, the Bertone-designed Italian’s 3.5L V8 was ditched in favor of the...

This 1955 Imperial Newport Is A 331ci Hemi Powered Survivor That We’d Cruise As Is

In our fair opinion, there are few things cooler than a legitimate survivor car. Not something that has been dragged from a barn on its last legs and about to break in half but a car that has...