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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Friday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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Watch This! Playing With Nitromethane Is Fun. Don’t Try This At Home Kiddos

If you burn your garage down lighting nitromethane on fire, that’s on you, not us or NitroAmerica. On a recent visit to Jason Rupert’s shop here in SoCal, Les Mayhew and the gang decided...

Watch This Old Holden Suffer Some Super Gnarly Axle Hop While Trying To Get A Burnout Going – Slow Motion Violence!

If you have ever been in a vehicle experiencing wheel hop, axle tramp, axle wrap, or whatever else you want to call it, you’d remember it. One of the most violent and destructive things to your...

The 2013 MotorManiaTV.com Crash Highlight Video Is Right Here!

Mark Walter, and the entire MotorManiaTV family, are great friends of BangShift.com and have put together an amazing collection of crashes, spins, flips, and fires from the 2013 racing season. All of...

Ford Will Be Best Selling Brand In 2013 In America- GM Outsells Everyone With All Brands In America

As we literally close out 2013, it is time to look at the sales numbers of the big OEM companies to see who is going to wear the crown (or crowns as the case may be) as the best sellers in the...

BEST OF BS 2013: This V12 LS Engine Is Real And It Really, Really Rules (w/VIDEO!)

Pal O’ BangShift John Coyle tipped us off about the existence of a truly amazing project that has been documented on the forums over at LS1Tech. There’s a couple of guys who are actually...

More Horseless Carriage Club Of America Photos From Irwindale For The 2013 Holiday Excursion

(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) The Horseless Carriages Gather at Irwindale While much of the United States is under freezing conditions and shoveling snow, SoCal is under near-perfect...

THIS IS THE LAST DAY To Take Advantage Of Auto Meter’s Cash For Your Dash Rebate — DO IT!

Chances are you got some dough on Christmas yesterday or you got some lousy stuff like clothing that you can return and end up with dough to spend on car parts. We’ve got the perfect place for...

Is The SCCA On the Verge Of Creating A Pro Touring Autocross Class? We Think So…Do The Proposed Rules Make Sense?

Word is spreading around the internets about the possibility of the SCCA adding a specific class that would serve as a catch all for classic American pro touring style cars in autocross competiton....

Tribute Video: Shawn Nault 1965-2013 Driver Of The Arctic Thunder Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car

Shawn Nault, Driver of the Arctic Thunder Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car, lost his bravely fought battle with cancer on December 21st. As a member of the drag racing fraternity, he’ll be missed. As a...

Action Video: Le Mans Cars Driven On The Streets Of Japan!

“Car porn”. This phrase is used to describe an automotive-themed photo or video that depicts something so amazing and/or beautiful it leaves you as slack-jawed as the first time you caught a...

Jim Murphy’s Simple And Ingenious Cure For Nostalgia Top Fuel Oil Downs

In this video by our dude Les Mayhew, Nostalgia Top Fuel Veteran and Champion Jim Murphy shows the world his ingenious and simple cure for Nostalgia Top Fuel oil downs. He explains that as a...

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Busy B’s Bakery Morning Cruise In. Where Hot Rods, Cinnamon Rolls, And Coffee Are King

(Words and Photos by Dave McNurlen) It’s another year of Sunday mornings at the Busy B’s Bakery on the Benbrook traffic circle in Ft. Worth, TX. A bunch of us have been getting together...

For Sale: The Greatest Car Hauler Of All Time….Just A Touch Over A Million Bucks

When you take one of the most rare and iconic custom trucks of all time and turn it into a car hauler, then ask over a million bucks for it, you’ve got the greatest car hauler of all time....

Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Mustang Violently Frag A Clutch During The Worst Failed Burnout Of All Time

Laying the hammer down while leaving a car show, the burger joint, an ice cream stand, or your parents’ driveway is part of the fun of snotty car ownership but that move isn’t without its...