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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million’s Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Tuesday

It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring Fling Million. We love this event...

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IHRA Acquires Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, Preserving a Legendary Legacy While Expanding the Future of Driver Development

FAIRFIELD, OH — March 31, 2026 — The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) today announced the acquisition of Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, one of the most respected and influential...

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Where’s Larry? Exploring Late Night Car Culture in Tokyo with The Nissan Party at 7 Eleven

The Nissan Party at 7/11 kind of reminds me of our meetups at Taco Bell or Circle K back in my street racing days, but when you first hear it you certainly don’t think this is a MUST STOP place...

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Daily Junkyard Crawl With Steve Magnante: A Real Deal 1970 Boss 302 Mustang! Trans Am Racing Greatness Right Here!

The Boss 302 Mustangs and Z28 Camaros, battled it out on road courses all over in the late 1960s and put on a hell of a show while doing it. With seriously under rated 302 cubic inch V8 engines,...

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EFI Tech: Here’s How To Use Holley’s Built In Output Testing Feature For Terminator X, HP, Dominator ECUs

Unless you are a professional EFI tuner, you probably don’t know all the features that are included in one of the new ECUs that are available today. Hell, even if you are a professional you...

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Restore & Protect vs Deposits (500,000 Mile Engine Tear Down Reveals All) Does This Oil Really Work?

If Lake says it’s good, I believe him. I just wanted to start off with that. Lake Speed Jr. is one of the smartest folks in the automotive aftermarket, is a real life oil analyst and engineer,...

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Project Violent Valiant Update: The Valiant’s Face Gets Chopped Off And Cage Building Continues

Project Violent Valiant is soldiering along at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle these days despite the crushing forces of winter trying to freeze half of the country to death. Kevin Tully is keeping warm by...

eBay Find: The Most Second Gen, 2nd Gen Camaro In The World

There was a time when this Camaro ruled the streets of whatever city or town it was built in. Ok, maybe that’s not true because it doesn’t appear that the car was ever driven all that...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Music Do You Listen To When Wrenching On Your Vehicles?

Driving home today, I realized that the majority of my day’s activities involves listening to music, whether it’s on the commute to and from work, slogging through some debugging and...

2014 NHRA Winternationals – Photos From The Explosive Opening Weekend Of The 2014 NHRA Season

(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – Love him or hate him, 16-time nitro funny car Champion John Force isn’t going anywhere, except down the dragstrip, 1,000...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Winter Car Crash – Mystery, Intrigue, and Public Urination

(Unknown Parts Counter Guy is our new series written by an actual parts counter guy at a large chain auto parts store. He’s writing anonymously so his ass doesn’t get fired. If you missed...

Drag Week 2014: All The Dates, All The Tracks, All The Info You Want And Need – Photos From The Original 2005 Event HERE!

So the news broke on Saturday about what race tracks and what dates that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014 would be happening at and on. I happened to be in the car when that news came out traveling...

The Movies of the 1960s and 1970s Were an Automotive Goldmine, and Not Just in the Movies You Know

These days — especially in places where it snows — it’s rare to see someone driving around in a modern Challenger or Camaro SS as a daily driver. Most of the time, those cars will...

A Video Peek At The Jet Hot Double Down Roadster From Full Hot Rods

See if you can follow us on this one. We came across this video made by the Eastwood company that features the Double Down Ford roadster being built by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods for the Jet-Hot...

BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Had To Build A Hot Rod SUV, What Would You Build?

Not surprisingly, today’s BangShift Question Of The Day came into being thanks to a particularly oddball thought that I had while driving past the Mitsubishi Outlander in my neighbor’s...

Rough Weekend For Tony and Cruz Pedregon At Pomona – Fire And Explosion Make For Expensive Outing

(Images from ESPN3 live stream) – It was an exciting and expensive weekend for both Cruz and Tony Pedregon as the brothers experienced some hairy mechanical failures during the freshly...

Rocket Revival: 2014 Looks Like The Year Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets Will Return To US Strips In Force

Maybe we can mark November of 2013 as the rough date that the revival of hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles on drag strips began. It was in November that the noted French rocket motorcycle rider Eric...

Someone In Iowa Is Daily Driving A 1980 Bradley Electric GT II – We Have Photo Proof

BangShift reader and Iowa native Chris Johnson gets the gold star of the day for whipping his cell phone out and blasting photos of this amazingly rare and totally freakish 1980 Bradley Electric GT...

Drag Art: A Fantastic High Definition Video Highlighting The Nitro Drivers Of Don Schumacher Racing

During the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up, Chad and I weren’t the only two guys filming the action from above the track. A film crew from Oakley was there to gather footage for a series of upcoming...

Craigslist Find: This 1970 ‘Cuda Packs A Hemi, Cool Old Race Paint, And Some Giant Rear Slicks

Thanks to Chris Chenlo, we have this totally sweet ‘Cuda to show you that is currently for sale on Craigslist. The car has apparently been for sale for some time as we did some rooting around...