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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Laris Motorsports Insurance $75K Big Money Bracket Racing Livestream! Saturday $75k!

It’s time for more LIVE drag racing, and this time it is from the big money bracket races at Darana Raceway National Trail in Hebron Ohio as they Laris Motorsports Insurance $75,000 To Win race...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: War in the Woods at Brown County Dragway – NO PREP DRAG RACING GREATNESS – Friday

If you don’t know Brown County, and the War in the Woods races, then you don’t follow No Prep because this is one of the most famous races and tracks in the No Prep drag racing world. Thanks to...

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Free Livestream: Check Out Qualifying From The Shakedown At US131 As The Mid West Drag Racing Series And Radial Outlaws Prepare For The Weekend!

US 131 has been open for testing the past few days as both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series prepare to take over the famed US 131 Motorsports Park. I’ve raced...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! 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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Pavement Pounder Events Motor City To Wheel Hub LIVE Event Did Not Disappoint! Our Photo Coverage Starts Right Now!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) We came out to hang with Cole Quinnell and his event Pavement Pounder’s Motor City to Wheel Hub Live about one minute after we got our ’65 Impala SS...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Final Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos From Charlotte!

Here’s our final nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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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...

Take A Tour Of The Mickey Thompson Operation In Ohio – This Is Cool And The Place Is Huge!

This is a cool video for a couple of reasons. For starters we get to take a peek behind the curtain at Mickey Thompson Tires at their massive operation in Ohio. The second reason is the guy giving us...

2015 Photo Highlight Reel: Charles Wickam Looks Back Over A Busy ’15

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – 2015 was a exciting year for me, I was able to photograph a number of items that were on my bucket list. Stuff like land speed racing, truck and tractor...

Best Of 2015: It’s A Turbocharged, EcoTech-Powered, Mid-Engined Chevrolet Cavalier Convertible With Right-Hand Drive, And It’s Wicked!

(Photos: BWC Fabrications) (Note: Easily the wildest car I’ve laid eyes on this year, this Cavalier looks like something I would’ve drawn in the middle of math class in junior high....

This Von Piranha AMX Is A Rare And Cool Tuner Piece From The 1960s – Ever Heard Of One?

While recovering from the Christmas feeding frenzy food coma (prime rib here at Casa de Rourke) I wasted time perusing RacingJunk.com for all the stuff I cannot afford, have no place to put, but...

Craigslist Hilarity: This Ad For A Beautiful Survivor 1964 Impala SS Is Awesome!

We LOVE a good Craigslist ad and we know that many of you do as well. Know who else is in the club? Voice of the NHRA Alan Reinhart. He’s the gearhead who sent me the link to the ad we’re...

Best Of 2015: Lance Auto Investments Junkyard Crawl, Sweet Springs, Missouri – A Little Bit Of Everything Hidden In The Grass

Interstate 70 through Missouri is, as far as I’m concerned anyways, just as interesting as Interstate 70 through Kansas: boring. I’ve driven that stretch of road at least eight times in...