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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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Mickey Rooney — star of a lot of crap and two great car movies — died at the age of 93 yesterday

Most of Mickey Rooney’s career was one version of an “aww shucks” kid or another, but for car nerds, two of Rooney’s movies stand out in a big, big way as some of the most...

Bed Wood and Parts Joins The BangShift Family Of Sponsors – American Made Beauty!

We’re proud to announce that Bed Wood and Parts has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. You may have seen their vibrant banners on the site for a few days already and that’s a good...

Someone Modified A 1977 Dodge Ambulance Into A Trailer Hauler And It Pretty Much Rules

BangShifter Tom Loreto send us an email with the Craigslist link to this pretty awesome 1977 Dodge trailer hauler that actually started life as an ambulance. Clean as a whistle, unique looking, and...

Caswell And Crew Win Class At Nurburgring – What The Hell Happens Next?

Early last weekend I received a breathless (OK they’s all breathless) call from Bill Caswell informing me that he was at the Nurburgring in Germany getting ready to make practice laps so he...

The 59th Annual Omaha Autorama – Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Oh My!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – The Omaha, Nebraska Autorama does not have the prestige the Grand National Roadster Show and the Detroit Autorama have, but to our man on the scene Scott...

We Saw This Awesome 1959 Buick Invicta In Front Of A Junkyard And Want To Know How You Would Build It

There I was, minding my own business driving down the road like the honest, upstanding citizen that I am when this evil son of a you know what started staring me down. I was forced to pull over and...

Lonestar Round Up 2014: Photos From Inside The Show – Unreal Cars And Trucks

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Since late last week we have been showing you the photographic handy work of Charles Wickam at the Lonestar Round Up 2014. Even with all we have showed you so far,...

Goodguys Del Mar 2014: The Hit Parade Of Awesome Iron Keeps On Rolling

Yeah, we were busy last weekend and the car scene in SoCal was hoppin’! We’ve been showing you photos from the Goodguys Del Mar show all weekend and today we have another fresh batch for...

2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring Fling: The Biggest Mopar Show In The West

Chryslers, Chryslers everywhere! That was how it looked just the other day when we were cruising the rows and rows of cool cars and trucks on display at the 2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring...

Funny Video: Proof That There Really Are a Million Ways to Lose a Drag Race

Of all the ways we have lost races ourselves and seen other people lose races, this is a new one on us. The driver of this well worn looking Buick appears to be competing at some sort of grudge type...

More Great Photos From Goodguys Del Mar, California – Customs, Classics, and Hot Rods

Our hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys De Mar, California show continues. This gallery has lots of cool customs, classics, and hot rods in it. We have something like 1,000 photos to post...

Special Edition 2014 Mopar Challenger Sells Out In One Day – People Love Appearance Packages

Each year, Mopar chooses a Chrysler model to make a limited edition of and this year is was the Challenger and only 100 of them were offered up for sale. Proving that the Mopar crowd is still as...

If You Could Replace One Racing Sanctioning Body Head TODAY, Who Would It Be?

It is Sunday and that means to most people they sleep in a little, wander through the day without much of a plan, and enjoy the fact that they don’t have to work, and maybe have an adult...

Lonestar Round Up 2014 – Top Notch Burgers Cruise NIght

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam has been doing a fantastic job of keeping us up to date and in the know about his weekend adventure with BangShifter Scott Brown at the 2014 Lonestar...