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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 7 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip – Saturday

We’ve got more live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s Division 7! 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...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 2 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From Gainesville Raceway – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s 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...

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Exhaust Insulation Tech: Installing Embossed Stainless Exhaust Heat Shielding On A Turbocharged Drag And Drive Beast!

I’ve been doing drag and drive events for 21 years now, and have been very vocal over the years about what it takes to be successful when it comes to completing these events and having a good...

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British Touring Car Championship Legends Roundtable at Goodwood: Hear The Untold stories from the Super Touring glory years!

I know that we live in a time where it seems like we get to see every bit of racing that we want to, but the truth is that a ton of it is behind a pay wall now that means seeing all of it is...

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Suspension Tech: Check Out This Simple Trick to Removing a Rubber Suspension Bushing With Tools You Have, And Way Less Work!

I’ve use a lot of different methods for removing suspension bushings, but this one makes me question whether one of those methods was ever done correctly. I remember removing bushings by...

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Fuel Altered Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing’s Wildest Rides!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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For Sale: 80-Acre, 8,000 Car Idaho Junkyard – Show Up With $3,000,000 And You Own It

I am glad that my kids were not sitting in close proximity when I opened the email that informed me of the sale of L&L Classic Auto in Wendell, Idaho. Once I saw the ariel photos of nearly 100...

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Gallery: Early Season Drag Action From Thunder Valley Raceway Park In Noble, Oklahoma!

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – So, what’s a drag starved gear head to do when it’s still winter time? Well, as most of you know Oklahoma weather has had multiple personality issues...

Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules

The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....

Gallery: Freaks, Trucks, and Hot Rods At The 2013 Big Three Swap Meet – San Diego, California

We’re continuing our photo coverage of the 2014 Big Three Swap Meet with today’s gallery that centers around cool trucks, some nifty hot rods, and some real weirdo stuff. Every once in a...

On This Date In 1893 The Diesel Engine Was Patented In Germany – Here’s Our Video Tribute To Compression Ignition Engines!

Rudolph Diesel would be so flipping happy at the way things are turning out for his basic engine design today, mainly because he would be wealthy beyond anyone’s imagination so it is too bad...

QuickTrick Is Giving Away One Of Their Awesome QuickSlide Caster/Camber Alignment Tools! Enter Here Before Feb 28!

If you are on Facebook and fail to heed the simple instructions below, simply put you are dumb. Like goalie on the dart team, window licking dumb. Why? Because for about 15 seconds of effort you can...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Front Frame Rails Get Fabbed And Installed

We’re back with another update on Project Violent Valiant the unique pro touring destroyer being built by Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle‘s Kevin Tully at the Skunkworks in Illinois. In case...

Watch A Large Ferry Thread The Needle Between Two Ships And Get Run Aground On Purpose At A Wrecking Yard In Turkey

If someone ever asked us if we could run a large vessel aground at full speed while navigating it between two other disabled ships, we’d just shrug it off and say, “Yeah, why?”...

Watch This Real Lambo With LS1 Power From Australia Dip Into The 9s!

The first thing we did after seeing this 9-second run made by the LS1 powered Lambo Jalpa in the video below was look up what the heck a Lamborghini Jalpa was. Honestly had no idea. It looked like a...

Wondering What’s Up With The Sinkhole Corvettes? Find Out Here

If you are not sure what we mean with the term “sinkhole Corvettes” then we’d like to welcome you back from the coma you’ve been in the last couple of weeks or the trip into...

Violence: Watch An AMA Supercross Rider T-Bone A Competitor On Purpose!

Of all the wild stuff we have seen racers do to one another in the heat of the moment, this video of AMA Supercross rider Mike Alessi t-boning fellow competitor Broc Tickle on purpose at a recent is...

Gallery: More BS Approved Iron For Sale At The Big 3 Swap Meet In San Diego

Yesterday we showed you the first of several galleries we’ll run from the 2014 Big 3 swap meet which is held in San Diego. The event has been running for 48 years straight and the 2014 version...

UPDATE: Fox Reports Jimmy Johnson Wins 2014 Daytona 500 After Running 2013 Daytona 500 Replay On Own Network — ESPN Botches It As Well!

We have made some boneheaded mistakes here at BangShift over the years but this literally beats all. Fox is the network carrying the 2014 Daytona 500 and due to the fact that it rained all day, they...

Watch Kevin Mullins 4.11 Run On 315 Drag Radials! 4,000hp Twin Turbo Hemi!

First off WARNING – THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE AND SWEARING AT THE END OF THIS VIDEO — IF THIS IS A PROBLEM, STOP IT IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU WATCH THE RUN.  This is the most incredible...