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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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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 In Car Video! Watch The 500 LIVE From In The Cars AND Watch Practice and Qualifying Below As Well!

It’s time for the Indy 500! We have livestreaming video from Indianapolis Motor Speedway right here, plus tons of video from the weeks leading up to the race. Check it all out right here! THE...

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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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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! 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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Sleeper Video: An Aussie Wagon That Runs 10s And Looks Like It Belongs At A Nursing Home Parking Lot

This could be the quietest 10-second car in the world and that’s the way we like them, especially when they look like something an elderly woman would be driving. This old 1990s era Nissan...

Video: Watch A Pissed Off Blown 540ci Chevy Make A Pull On The Scariest Looking “Dyno” Ever

We’ve been around a few engine dynos in our life and frankly NONE of them have looked or acted like the “dyno” in this video. Frankly, we’re thinking that this is more along...

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Unhinged: Do You Want Lincoln To Die? Because This Is How Lincoln Will Die.

Lincoln has been on the verge of death for years, it’s no secret. The Navigator and fleet sales of the Town Car kept things afloat, but when the Town Car got axed a couple of years back,...

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Glorious Noise: This Demon Screams Like One

The Dodge Demon…for something that in reality was nothing more than a Dart coupe, this car pissed off a lot of people. A Duster wearing a Dart nose, these cars were immediately targeted by...

Pep Boys Offers New Gearhead Themed Shirts and Hats – Looks Respectable For Once In Your Life!

When you walk into your local Pep Boys store you are typically in one of two modes. Mode one is that you are buying parts for a job you are going to complete the next day. Mode two is that you are in...

Watch As A Driver Spins The Only Remaining Car From The First Ever Grand Prix

When you get the privilege of taking out the only remaining car from the world’s first Gran Prix, what would you do? Not drive it at all for fear of wrecking the temperamental beast? Putt...

Question Of The Day: Is This G-body Monte Carlo SS Worth Nearly $13K?

Nutting isn’t the only G-body freak here at BangShift…the first car I got to drive around in public…legally, anyways…that was my own was a T-top equipped 1987 Monte Carlo SS....

Classic Rally Greatness: Watch A Mini And A Classic Escort Get Put Through The Paces

This is sweet footage from the Ford Archives. Called the Gems Rally Legends, this is a clip from a DVD made from three different films from the 1960’s-early 1970’s that shows the cars in...

Dyno Video: Watch A 428ci, NASCAR Race Block Based Chrysler Wedge Engine Scream Out 712 HP Naturally Aspirated!

It has been way too long since we featued a hot Chrysler wedge engine making a dyno pull on the blog. To right this wrong, we bring you the footage below which is of a nasty little bastard of an...

No, That’s Not Suspicious: Bad Thief Drags Safe Behind Town Car In Front Of Cops

This week’s “Dumbest Criminals” award goes to 22-year-old Ryan Mullins. Mullins, from Swansboro, North Carolina, was spotted August 14, 2014 by police as he was using a Lincoln Town...

New York’s Lancaster Dragway/Speedway Is For Sale – 77 Acres Outside Of Buffalo, NY

Now’s your chance if you have always wanted to get into the racing business. Not only is it a chance to go into the drag racing business but it is also a chance to go into the circle track...

You Know You Want This: 1/2 Scale Plymouth Superbird

How cool is this? This 1/2 scale Plymouth Superbird is something Brian, Chad and I Lohnes’ kids would love. The body is a fiberglass piece and it’s powered by a 8hp Briggs and Stratton...

Redneck Rocket Video: Watch A Massive Swamp Buggy, Equipped With A 632ci V8 Yank The Front Wheels On Pavement!

Its Saturday here in the BangShift newsroom, know what that means? Typically it means that we wake up surrounded by spent beer cans, old pizza boxes, and using a breaker bar as a pillow under one of...

Cynthiana Rod Run Coverage: It Looks Like Every Hot Rod In Kentucky Was There

(Words and Photos by Doug Gregory) –  This was the Third Annual Rod Run in Cynthiana and proved this is an event growing in popularity and participation.  Some estimates claimed 1,000 cars,...