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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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We’ve Got NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: 4-Wide Drag Racing Is Right Here!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Friday $50,000 Big Money Race #1

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Another Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 4th gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them out too....

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Eliminations & Pro Mod And Top Fuel Qualifying From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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The Entire SCORE Off Road Series For 2014 Will Be On CBS, And We Will Be There!

That’s right folks, for the first time in SCORE Baja Racing history, there is going to be televised action from each and every stop on the World Championship Series. We LOOOOOVVEEEEE...

AMERICAN BADASS: Col. John Stapp Went 632 MPH in a Rocket Sled with an OPEN COCKPIT

We’ve all seen footage of crash test dummies getting put through their paces to understand how crashes effect the human body. Through the years, auto manufacturers have employed everything from...

All Acceleration All The Time Video: Jim Pace Hammers A Camaro, A Couple Old Can-Am Cars, And Porsches In This Hammer Down Video

Everyone that drives a car digs the feeling of being pressed back into the seat when you hit the gas. From your grandmother to the dink in the Prius next to you in traffic, even non-car people...

Skip The Coffee, This Footage Of 90’s Subaru Rally Action Will Wake You Up!

I was never really into Subarus as a kid during the 90s, if only because the majority of Subarus you saw in New England in the 90s were beat up old Leones and Legacies. Once in a while an Impreza was...

Video Bonanza: The Racing in Slow Motion Series

Every now and again a cool video hits the scene and ripsaws through the automotive interwebs like wildfire. Currently, that video is the latest release in the Racing in Slow Motion series on YouTube....

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Larry Minor

Racing and motorsports in general are both populated by lots of rich guys. That can be a bad thing because frankly, in our experience, a large percentage of rich guys are jerks. Larry Minor is...

Does The 2015 Ford Expedition Mark The Beginning Of The End For Ford V8 Engines?

Ford announced the specs for the upcoming 2015 Ford Expedition and while that in itself isn’t all that BangShifty there’s an underlying situation involved with the Expedition that seems...

Video: The Hover-Barrow Was A Neat And BangShifty Solution To Job Site Drudgery – Cool Idea!

Human beings have been seeking ways to make life easier since the dawn of our existence. From coming up with ideas like the wheel, yogurt in a tube, electricity, and nuclear weapons, we’ve been...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is The Coolest TV Car Guy Currently On The Air?

We in another period where automotive themed TV shows are all over the place and from what we have heard and seen, even more of them are slated to be coming out in the months ahead. Obviously these...

On Tonight’s Back Road Gold, Corky Finds A Sea Of Cars, Including A ’59 T-Bird And Fire Truck!

It’s episode three of Backroad Gold, with Corky Coker, and this week his adventures take him to a field of cars that is so big you can’t see them all at once. The show airs at 6:30pm and...

Awesome Drag Video: Watch Grumpy Jenkins Live Up To His Nickname In A 1975 TV Interview – This Rules All

Away from the race track Bill Jenkins was an affable man with lots of friends and stories. At the track, he was as serious as a heart attack, not all that friendly a dude, and an intense competitor....

RacingJunk Find: An 800hp NASCAR Powered Former Trans Am Mustang Road Racing Destroyer

We know that there are far more sensible ways to go road racing. Lighter cars with smaller engines, go karts, Formula Vee racers, and all of that stuff but let’s be honest here. This is...

The Dynasphere Is A Fun British Creation From The 1930s That We Want To Drive! (Video)

People have been designing and building so-called “mono wheel” vehicles for a long time, like over 80 years now as is proven by the video below. We’re sure that the existed on paper...

MSD Named Official Ignition Of USMTS and USRA Racing Series

(Photo credit: USMTS.com) – We got word from the crew at MSD yesterday that two dirt racing series had names MSD ignition products their official ignitions and we thought that was pretty neat....