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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Event Did Not Disappoint! Check Out All The Cool Photos That Mike Brooks Got Us!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) The Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina celebrated it’s 37th anniversary this year and as usual had a sellout crowd. This show sells out every year,...

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Watch The Low Buck Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Bust Into The 4-teens On About A 100% Load Of Nitro

With a new paint job (and maybe a new chassis?), BangShift’s adopted fuel altered heroes have outdone themselves again. The Wild Rat crew has found more performance out of their tried and true...

Best Of BangShift 2015: Jungle Jim Liberman’s Actual 1969 Chevy Fires Up On Nitro, Does Dry Hops Makes Pass!

Friend O’ BangShift Ron Huegli has the greatest job on Earth. We think we have it pretty good sometimes but Ron is living the dream working as the curator as the freshly opened World of Speed...

Dyno Time! It’s A Battle Of The Two 383 Cubic Inchers – Stroker Chevy Small Block Versus Big Block Mopar!

In no way is the battle of the 383 cubic inch engines that Engine Masters put together a fair fight, despite what Freiburger keeps claiming. Why? Simple: a small-block Chevy stroker is a rev-happy...

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BangShift 2015 Photo Highlight Reel: Mike Brooks Shows Off His Best Stuff!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) –  It goes without saying that 2015 was my Bangshiftiest year ever. I was fortunate enough to be able to get to many awesome events over the last 12 months. I got to...

Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T

Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....

This Actually Happened – Watch A Guy Ride On Top Of A Dragster For A Quarter Mile Pass!

Yes, you are about to watch a guy ride on top of a dragster for a full quarter mile pass with his ass perched the base of the scoop and his hands wrapped around the top of the dragster chassis in a...

Best Of 2015: This C3 Corvette Is Hiding A Secret That Would Send Both Vette And Ford Fans Into Fits – Meet The Cobravette!

“The devil is in the details,” we’ve heard over and over again. The point of that statement is to slow down and fully appreciate what it is that you are looking at instead of taking...

Best Of 2015: Wickedness In Silver – The “Sudden Death” 1975 Ford Mustang II

Everybody knows the feeling of wanting to be on top. Many try, many fail, some succeed. What a lot of people fail to recognize is that failure is part of the program. If you don’t fail, you...

Best Of 2015: Skewering The Sacred Cow – A DZ302-powered 1963 Ferrari 250 GT/E That Has Enzo Rolling In His Grave

The Ferrari 250 series is carried by the the factory Ferrari racing cars and the wildly valuable 250 GTO, but the long wheelbase, four seater GT/E carries two great distinctions: it was...

This Old Snow Blower Is Definitely Weird… And Definitely Bangshift Approved!

In the past week, the US has seen some really intense weather. While some parts of the country, like The Northeast, have seemingly skipped winter and gone right to spring, other parts of the country...

Unreal: This Exhaustive List Featuring The Greatest Lemons Cars Ever Is Filled With BangShifty Gold

From the whimsical, to the weird, to the genius, to the diabolical the 24 Hours of LeMons racing series has inspired hundreds, hell, thousands of car builds over the time it has existed that would...

Tuesday Night With BangShift Chad On The Nitro Report! Get Your Dose!

Tonight, watch BangShift’s Chad Reynolds when he joins Donnie Couch and Darr Hawthorne and Bruce Barker on the Nitro Report from the West Coast Funny Car Factory Studios tonight December 29th at...

Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!

We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...

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This 1969 Mustang Was Built As A Drag Strip Terror And Restored To Factory Original Goodness

When looking at old cars, the options that the original buyer specified from the factory tell a ton of stuff about how the car was intended to be used and what kind of buyer the person was. In the...