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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Why The Feng Shui Of A Parts Store Is Enough To Make A Man Drink…Heavily

It doesn’t matter which one of the parts stores you walk into, because they are all the same: Sorted, in a selected pattern that is meant to catch those buying trinkets and air fresheners early and...

We Raided The 2014 OPG Annual Classic Car Show And Found Classic GM Heaven – Photos Galore

For more than 30 years, OPG has been a big part of saving thousands of classic GM cars from certain doom in junkyards or at the unrelenting hands of the crusher. With a product line that spreads...

The 2015 Corvette Will Be Available With An 8-Speed Auto – First Time Auto Trumps Manual In Gears

Automatic transmissions in Corvettes are not a new thing. Since the dawn of the Corvette, they’ve had automatics available for customers who’d prefer that the car shift itself, but this...

Apex Quiz: Has Anyone Participated In The New SCCA Classic American Muscle Autocross Class?

We were one of the first venues to report on the creation and ultimate addition of the Classic American Muscle class to the SCCA (Sports Car Club Of America) autocross program so consider this...

More Photos From Inside The 2014 Omaha Autorama – Big Rigs, Pro Touring, More!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The hit parade from Omaha keeps right on rolling as we’re sharing another load of Scott’s photos from the 2014 Omaha Autorama. After returning home to...

2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring Fling – More Photos From The West’s Biggest Mopar Show

Yesterday we dropped our first gallery from the 2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring Fling and today we’re back with our second and final collection of photos from the event. As we told you,...

2014 COPO Camaros Spotted Testing At zMax Dragway

(Photo credit: TheBlock.com) – Here’s the first look the world has had of the 2014 COPO Camaro attacking a drag strip in anger. Recently, GM snuck a couple of the factory drag machines...

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,...