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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Dave Nutting’s Dream Car Discovered At A Price He Can Afford – F40 For The Common Man

Dave Nutting and I have been on many automotive related adventures together. We’ve visited exotic destinations like Ohio. We have seen the hardest core Vermont four wheel drive enthusiasts in...

Wanna Play Army? This 1977 Dodge M886 Ambulance Is A Good Selection!

It’s difficult to call the Dodge M-truck program a success or failure. The best way to view what happened was to think of it as a stacked deck. In the mid-1970s, the military wanted to start...

Alan Johnson Confirms Via Twitter That He Will Be Tuner For Brittany Force In 2016

Well here it is, confirmation of what could have been the hottest rumor in the world of professional drag racing since the holiday season. Alan Johnson, one of the greatest minds in the history of...

Three Classic Survivor Camaros For $250,000? What do you think?

That sound you hear is likely Chad loudly scratching lottery tickets, trying to get his ship to come in because if he had the money, I KNOW he’d be on the line with the seller of these three...

El Vega-Mino? Check Out This Strange Little Mini Trar From Craigslist!

Here at Bangshift, you know we love weird car/truck creations, so when a reader forwards us a mysterious Craigslist link labeled “Check this weird Vega truck/car thing out!” you know...

Tire Slog: We Test The BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 In Muck, Mire, and Snow

(Words by Lohnes and McTaggart) – Just about a year ago, Nutting and I went into the wilds of Maine with the fine people of BFGoodrich to test our their All Terrain T/A KO2 tire. This is the...

FAST Launches New Ignition Division So They Can Now Provide The Hot Spark To Light Your Fuel!

If there is one thing that manufacturers and end users want with their high performance components it is control. Whether that control comes in the form of dedicated quality programs, testing, and...

eBay Find: This 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Mint! This Hardtop Would Be A Killer Cruiser!

When I was a kid, if you hunted around long enough and stayed away from the more desirable model names, you could pick up an extremely nice 1960s era ride for a song. That was in the late 1990s....

Pomona Swap Meet Coverage! We’re Back With More Classics And A Couple Of Ugly Ducks As Well

And we’re back! Yes our unrelenting torrent of photos from the January iteration of the Pomona Swap Meet continues. We’ve got all of the photos we have posted so far below with the...

Hop In The Hot Rod Time Machine And Check Out This 1980s Car Show Action

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Blackwell is where I was born and raised and was also on the 2014 Drag Week path.  That route took this impressive band of automobiles right down Highway...

eBay Find W/Video: The Corsetta Is A BMW Isetta Microcar With A Corvair Flat Six Jammed In It!

In this history of crazy ideas and things that are totally bat crap insane, the Corsetta may actually stand alone. A tiny BMW Isetta microcar with a Corvair flat six engine hanging off the back, it...

You Have To Love A Nitrous-Infused Dodge Dakota R/T That Can Stomp All Day Long At The Track!

I love the 1998-2003 Dodge Dakota R/Ts. They are a perfect mix of modern and old-school Mopar muscle that was packaged up and promptly ignored as a sticker package by many. Sure, the original 250...

Watch This 1944 Mack Fire Truck Powered By A Viper V10 Perform A Sweet Burnout!

We have to thank Daryl White for the tip on this awesome video that is short but pretty flipping sweet as it shows a classic 1944 Mack fire truck that has been hot rodded to the hilt and re-powered...

What Would You Do With This 1975 Chrysler VJ Valiant Ute That’s For Sale In Atlanta?

Ever since I’ve figured out how to work YouTube, I’ve been fascinated with the cars of Australia, and not just the Mad Max Falcon, either. Australia gets the concept of the muscle car and...

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