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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

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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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations 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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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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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Gallery: Veluzat Military Vehicle Rentals – The Coolest Place In The Known Universe

I have been galavanting around the country for the last week and a half from drag races in Florida to a big media conference in California. In between those two things, I had a couple of days to...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The 1932 Helicron

We know what you’re thinking. No, this is not a motorized Bologna slicer. It’s a French creation, and it was an epic fail (like that’s a surprise). As it turns out the French...

Question of the Day: What is the First Car You Remember Riding Around in as a Kid?

This question came up as I was tooling around with my son Jack last week. I was wondering what his four year old brain is holding onto as far as information about the family cars he’s occupied...

This Old Mazda Wagon With A Turbocharged 13B Rotary Engine Is 100% BangShift Approved (Video)

Thumping V8 engines that make torque for days and sound like the glorious beasts that they are make and forever will make up the foundation of the BangShift performance universe but let’s be...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Clay Smith

Clay Smith, the legendary purveyor of speed during the early days of professional racing here in America is a gearhead guy you should know. He’s a more than worthy guy to be profiled. Heck,...

Cool Build: The Madmen At Autofab Race Cars Are Building An LS1 Prius!

You knew it was bound to happen eventually: Someone is finally swapping an LS1 into a Prius. I’ve heard rumors of such mythical creatures before, including a Prius that had a LS7 transplanted...

This Blown Alcohol Hemi Powered Three Wheeled 1957 Chevy Thing Pegs The WTF Meter Pretty Hard

Even we, the mighty BangShift staff get flummoxed sometimes. Take this video below for example. The film features a three wheeled vehicle with roughly the same wheelbase as an altered, a sectioned...

A Cool G Part Deux: Our 383 LS Gets Boost And Makes Over 1000 Horsepower For The Street

By: Richard Holdener (Onthedyno.com) Back in part 1 we introduced Bangshifters to our Cool G 383 build up. What started out as a simple, iron-block 5.3L was quickly transformed into a 383 stroker by...

Retro Galleries: Hundreds Of Photos From the 2013 Grand National Roadster Show

Editor’s note: BangShift’s coverage of the 2014 Grand National Roadster Show will begin tomorrow. To get your juices flowing for killer hot rods and customs, check out the photo links...

Huge News: Dragway 42 Hires Aaron Polburn In Consulting Role As Consultant Of Stuff – Cue Madness!

Well, holy smokes! Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was the first to alert us to the fact that Ohio’s Dragway 42 has hired Aaron Polburn in a consulting role to work with the track in doing stuff like...

The COPO Camaro Program Continues For 2014. Can You Guess What New Color Is Available?

We got word today that the Chevrolet Performance COPO Camaro Program will in fact continue for 2014 and that a brand new color is going to be available. We’ll let you guess what that color is...

Kepner Sez: Nitro Burning Flat Track Ice Motorcycle Racing Is Indoor Winter Insanity (W/Video)

(Text by Bret Kepner, photos from XIIR) -If it’s the third week in January, it’s time to start the season for one of the most unique forms of indoor motorsports on the planet. It’s the return...

Watch These Videos Of Red Bull Frozen Rush V8 Trucks Flying Through The Maine Snow!

I should have added “and revel in our total failure,” to the title of this blog item because that is what I feel as I watch them. Let me explain. Recently at the Sunday River ski resort...

A Gazillion Mile Mustang On Craigslist With Ad Verbage Hilarity You Won’t Want To Miss

We love funny Craigslist Ads. They crack us up, and have become one of those things that we love hearing about. When our buddy RTC sent us this one from Columbia, South Carolina for a 1968 Mustang...