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A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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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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Felix Rosenquist And David Malukas Battle For The Closest Finish In Indy 500 History! Watch The Finish And Race Highlights Right Here!

If you didn’t catch the entire Indy 500 on TV yesterday, you missed some drama for sure. With rain effecting the race, but officials, fans and racers sticking it out, there was no shortage of...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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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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This 1963 Dodge D300 Wrecker Is Awesome And Insanely Cheap – It Was Saved Once And Now Needs A Good Home

This is a live breaking report from the Brian Lohnes home for wayward tow trucks. There’s a wrecker out there that needs a new home and YOU…yes, YOU are the one to grab it. The truck was...

Nut Driver: Evolution Driving School And Flying Parts!

[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s attempts to daily drive his 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Massachusetts 365 days a year] Before continuing on, if you want to catch up on the...

BangShift Public Service Announcement: Don’t Ever Get Into A Motorized Lift With This Guy

Consider this the best advice that we’ll give you all day. DO NOT, under any circumstances get into a motorized lift with the guy in the video below. Why? Well you’ll see when you...

Ebay Find: Testing The Limits Of Celebrity And The “Low Mileage” Mark With A Clean K-car LeBaron. How Much Will It Sell For?

“Low Miles” and “Celebrity Owned”. As a general rule, your eyes roll when you see those two phrases as you troll eBay looking at stuff you can’t possibly afford. But...

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Caption This: No, It’s Ok…I Can Get A New Car.

Bees are good for many things: beeswax has many uses, honey is very delicious, they pollinate flowers and assist in the creation of food. Bees have two downsides: they swarm and they sting. The...

Meltdown Drags Coverage: More Photos And Cool Stuff From The 2014 Meltdown Drags

(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke) – As we have been telling you all week, the 2014 Meltdown Drags was an event for the books. With more than 500 entires, Byron Dragway was filled nearly...

How Far Is Too Far? TVR Found Out With The Cerbera Speed Twelve

TVR is one of those private British car manufacturers that makes the kinds of cars that most standard manufacturers wouldn’t dream of pursuing. Known for styling that bordered on the insane and...

Lions Super Pull Of The South: A Collection Of Cool Names And Paint Jobs From The Huge Pull

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While the practice of naming racing vehicles has drifted off into the vapors in most professional competition series, it is still very much alive in the world of...

Hot Wheels Commissioned A Real-Life Darth Vader Car, Star Wars Fans Start Breathing Heavily

“Lord Vader, Your Car Is Ready”. It’s a tagline that originally appeared for the 1987 Buick GNX, and has since applied to anything black, sinister and fast. But for the 2014 Comic...

Diesel Power Challenge Week: The Punishing Eighth Mile Trailer Sprint At Bandimere

This is the most brutally simple event at the Diesel Power Challenge. The idea is to take a skid steer and trailer combo weighing in at about 11,000lbs and drag them as quickly as possible down an...

Cruise Gallery: The 27th Annual Kearney Cruise Friday Night Kick Off Party

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The 27th Annual Kearney Cruise Nite’s Friday Night Kick-Off Party was the official start of the weekend festivities put on Central Nebraska Auto...

Take In The Aftermath Of The Most Violent Transmission Failure We Have Ever Seen – Incredible Destruction, Driver OK

If I remembered stuff about drag racing cars like I remembered stuff about important elements of my life, I would be sitting pretty. Sadly, I can remember drag race cars and moments like they...

BangShift Reader Brawl: What Is The Boldest Move A Racing Sanctioning Body Needs To Make And Who Needs To Make It?

As you know, we thoroughly love racing here at BangShift. We love it because we’re involved in it at a couple of levels, because we’re fans of the people who are racing and wrenching on...

This Blown, Ground Pounding 1973 Gremlin Has A Hairy 401 And An Awesome Past – Tough Stuff!

Hot rodders have had a good formula for about the last 80 years and that is to grab a cheap car that may be largely unloved and turn it into something that they can scorch the Earth with. They did it...