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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Check Out The Wheels Up Drag Action From Mooneyes X-Mas Party 2015!

While it’s true there are a jillion cars at the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags, that are just hanging out and showing off, there are a pretty good number that also decide that tire smoke and...

NHDRA Top Diesel – Torque By The Ton! These Top-Tier Oil Burners Lay It Down In Texas!

One of the first events of the year we look forward to is the Diesel Power Challenge, where trucks from all over meet in Colorado to do battle, and it’s followed up with the TS Performance...

This 1976 Chrysler Newport Is A Winter Beater Dream! Just Add Studded Snow Tires And Go Drift-Bashing!

Why the hell is a steel-gray Chrysler Newport four-door on the front page of BangShift today? Easy: it’s freaking winter. That means that the “toy” is put up, and it’s time to...

Take A Look Behind The Scenes On A Drag Challenge Build: A 427ci Twin-Turbo Mill Meant For A Holden Clubsport!

Drag Challenge, Australia’s Drag Week clone, has taken off like wildfire, with massive amounts of success. What else would you expect in the land of burnout contests and long-distance skidding?...

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Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags Show Coverage Continues Right Here

We started our Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags coverage yesterday with a gallery of cool hot rods and customs from the show, and it continues on today. In fact, we’ll have galleries going up all...

Classic YouTube: A Look Back At The Early Years Of Monster Trucks! Bigfoot, USA-1, Awesome Kong, And More!

It seems long ago that monster trucks were something more than fiberglass and noise. Back when Bigfoot was without question a household name, but had other names following right behind: Awesome Kong....

This Guy Turned A Chevrolet Express Into An All-In-One Bug-Out Van That Can Carry His Dog, His Bike And A Place To Sleep!

Are you familiar with “toterhomes”…the all-in-one deal that packs a roadworthy house and a toy hauler into one unit? Usually they’re based on a semi-truck with the largest...

This List Of The Top Grossing Car Racing Movies From 1980-Present Has Some Suprises In It!

Car movies are an interesting deal because sometimes the good ones aren’t really that good. More car movies have lost money than made it but we have proof that some are literal cash cows. The...

An F1 Race Car Is Fast, But Can It Take On A Funny Car? Daniel Ricciardo Gave It A Shot!

A Formula One racer is a marvel of technology. A screaming engine that can rev fast and hard enough to make a superbike jealous combined with the forefront of tire technology, suspension geometry,...

Threads Of Infamy: The Most Hilarious, Maddening, Ponderous, And Off The Wall Automotive Message Board Threads Ever

(Credit to “research assistant” Nutting on this one as well) – The following message board threads rank the highest on a scale of wackiness that we wanted to put them all in once...

Can You Believe This Is The Clutch From A Formula 1 Car? F1 Stuff Is Tiny!

When we walked by the AP Racing booth here at PRI yesterday I was mesmerized by this little tiny carbon clutch displayed on a stand. When I looked at saw that this is in fact a clutch out of an F1...

PRI 2015: A Gallery Of Cars, Engines, Parts, And Machines From The Show Floor

From the insane engines at Wagler Competition Products, to the polished parts and pieces that can be found at so many displays at this show, PRI is jamming harder than it has since we can remember....

Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!

One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...

How The Rich Do It: Skeet Shooting From A Porsche 911 Targa With Trick Shot Philip Thorrold!

You remember Tax The Rich? The unknown drivers who treated the cars of the upper crust like a rented Chevrolet Impala…drifting them through the grass, fire burnouts, and a stunt involving a...