.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

Read more

LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

Read more

FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

Read more

Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

Read more

STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

Read more

Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

Read more

 

A Legend Returns: Tommi Mäkinen To Head Up Toyota’s World Rally Team

(Photos: wrc.com) Tommi Mäkinen’s reputation in World Rally Championship racing is set in stone. The man has four WRC titles under his belt (1996-1999) that he earned while throwing Mitsubishi...

Ebay Find: This 1973 AMC Matador Is The Perfect Big-Blocked Plain Brown Box

We’ve looked at plenty of AMC products here at BangShift, but if there is one model that we don’t pay much attention to, it’s the Matador. Unless you are a die-hard fan of Adam...

This 1962 Buick Invicta Custom Estate Wagon Is The Perfect Cruiser And Slingshot Push Car

If you had yourself a dragster in the middle to late 1960s, chances are strong that you had a wagon like this one to drag the thing to the track and then push start it. Sure, some of the fancy tracks...

2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion: The Coolest Rods, Trucks, Muscle Cars, and…Vans?!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – It was a heck of a weekend at Sterling Airport during the 2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion. Steve Magnante was announcing the action, hundreds of the coolest...

Rough Start: This Built 1985 Ford Thunderbird Just Might Be The Best Find Yet

The entire point of the Rough Start series was to find the best balance between a maximum budget of $5,000 total for a vehicle and the desirable reasons for owning said vehicle. We’ve seen...

HUGE NEWS: BangShift To Provide LIVE Streaming Coverage Of 10th Annual NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl!

From July 30th through August 2nd BangShift.com will provide live streaming video coverage of the 10th annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. This is a race that combines the...

All In The Family: If You Think The 15-year-old Can Drift, You Ought To See The 11-Year-Old!

Would you cut your child loose with a powerful race car? Here in the states, that might be a cause for panic, especially from the “Think of the children!” groups, but in Ireland there is...

Fred Williams Gets To Take A Brand-New Toyota Tundra TRD Pro On An Off-Roading Road Trip Vacation That Anyone Can Do!

Ok, so you might not get the keys to a $44,000 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro to tool around in, and yes, this episode of Dirt Every Day is mostly a Toyota advertisement. Fine, but if it is going to be an...

Watch This NASCAR Small Block Get Pulled Six Times In A Row To 9,700 RPM As A Race Simulation

We show you high RPM dyno pulls with frequency around here because they are awesome. Who does not love the sound of an engine turning in the upper reaches of the four digit zone and into the five...

Ride Along As RM Sotheby’s Gets A Rare Opportunity To Drive A Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight In The Hills Of Oregon

It is a rare piece, that’s for sure…only three of them were made as a response to Mercedes-Benz’s 300SL entries at LeMans. It packed 220hp in 1953, a fairly substantial figure, but...

This 1968 Cadillac El Dorado El Camino Is Very Interesting And Cool – Would You Cruise It?

You can count this as a new one on us! The eBay ad promoting the sale of this unique 1968 Cadillac El Dorado-Camino gives no details as to the origins, construction, or inspiration for this evil...

Battle Of The Titans! The 800HP AWD Cutlass Meets An 800HP Jeep SRT-8

Brian King’s AWD Hurst/Olds is a beast. Running an 800hp 6.6L ProCharged LS engine and all-wheel-drive, the G-body Cutlass is capable of not only handling itself at a race, but handing plenty...

Hilarious Video: Watch A Pickup Strung With About One Million Firecrackers Put On The Performance Of A Lifetime

BangShifter Jack Pereira tipped us off to this video that may actually be beyond description but we’re going to give it a try here. At first we thought we were watching a well used Chevy pick up...

Another 8×8 Extreme RV That Will Make You Want To Circle The Globe

When we found an 8×8 Motorhome last week on Craigslist and showed it to all of you the response was awesome. Well boys and girls, here is one at another level again! Action Mobil builds these...