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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Here’s Every Angle We Could Find Of The Awesome Houston Club Building Implosion Yesterday

The Houston Club was a pretty ritzy place when it opened up about 40 years ago but as times and real estate values have changed, that formerly luxurious and cool building was looking more and more...

Check Out These Awesome Hot Rods And Historic Race Cars From The Famed Famoso Grove At The CHRR

While the action on the track is hot and heavy at Bakersfield each year during the California Hot Rod Reunion, it is only part of the show. Note that this event is specifically called a...

Video Of Audi’s Driverless RS7 Running The Hockenheimring Track Here!

If you, as a company, expect the public to buy off on any sort of new and previously unknown technology, you have to perform a real-world test to prove feasibility, and that is exactly what Audi has...

Top GM Lawyer Has Decided To Retire After Decades Of Work…Are The Recalls Taking Their Toll?

After about 37 years with the company and five years as the chief legal counsel of General Motors, Mike Millikin will retire at the beginning of 2015. The move is voluntary and the 66 year-old...

Nothing But Wheelstand Photos From The 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion

We love us some wheelies around here at BangShift. Watching cars that weight a ton or sometimes closer to two tons reach for the sky when the throttle is laid flat at the drags has been captivating...

BangShift Exclusive: An Incredible Inside Look At The Restoration Of A WWII B-17 – The Desert Rat Labor Of Love

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – So BangShift Chicago gets a hotline call wanting to know if we would like to see some old metal that’s being restored locally. Silence for a split...

Hedman Pulling Out All The Stops At SEMA 2014 – Historic Car On Display And Tons Of New Products Introduced

For 60 years, Hedman has been designing, building, and marketing some of the most well constructed and well known parts in the high performance aftermarket. This year at SEMA the company will...

Man Sized Job: Four Rigs Moving Half Million Pound, 200ft Long Tower Through Oklahoma – 100% BangShift Approved Heavy Hauling (Video)

As you read this, four beefy Kenworth rigs are working in teams of two (two pushing, two pulling) to move a massive 186ft, 535,000lb demethanizing tower through Oklahoma to its final resting spot in...

The Ultimate Chevy Stripper Transformed Into An Awesome And Classy Sleeper – Ever Heard Of A 1959 Biscayne Utility Sedan? Now You Have

It is always fun to learn about car stuff that we never knew existed in the first place. Things like the fact Chevrolet produced a version of the 1959 Biscayne called a “utility sedan”...

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF OUR 2014 CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION PHOTOS

IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION STREAMING BROADCAST CLICK HERE    Well the 2014 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion has already provided some awesome action and it ain’t...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: If You Would Just Listen For One Second…

I feel for the dealership guys, I really do. Basically, they have all the fun that most any parts clerk does, but they have the expectation of having a genius-level comprehension of what’s...

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Random Car Review: Lancia Delta HF Integrale, Italian Insanity On A Low Dose Of Medication

(HF Integrale photos: eBay/thebarnmiami) Lancia and rally racing: together it’s a beautiful thing. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s Lancia could do no wrong in rally, even if the odds...

Tesla Customers Go Online To Complain About The Lack Of Warning When It Came To The D

One of the greatest draws to the Tesla Model S is that the car represents the latest and greatest that can come from an auto manufacturer. But what happens when you spend north of $80K on a car and a...

Event Gallery: 2014 Buick GS Nationals At Beech Bend-Turbos And Torque On Display

Buick has had an on-again, off-again deal with building fast cars. In the Sixties they gave us the Gran Sport lineup, which were A-body Skylarks with all of the engine that Buick could stuff into the...