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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Qualifying Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Testing Video: Chaos SuperNationals Testing at Summit Motorsports Park. Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds, and More!

The Chaos Series has been going hot and heavy so far this season, and with lots more racing left there are a lot of teams out there battling it out for points. And the competition is getting tougher,...

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Video Of A Kid Thrashing A Little Diesel Citroen Around The ‘Ring Will Make You Want To Race RIGHT NOW

Driving slow cars fast is a topic we have broached here on BangShift a bunch. My own experience in that arena taught me a ton and serves as the basis for my love of this video you’ll see below....

Historic Video: 1960’s Army Testing Of Curtiss-Wright Air Car Is A Glimpse Of A Future That Never Was

I don’t know about you, but it is now the year 2014 and I’m feeling a bit mislead as there’s not a single personal jet pack or flying car available for me to purchase from a major company....

Comp Cams Is Hiring A Computer Guy/Girl! Are You One? Need A New Job? Check It Out Here –

We’d be 100% lying if we said we knew what a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator/MySQL Database Administrator did, but COMP Cams needs one and you could be that guy or girl! Chad and I have a...

This Six Wheel Dodge Pleasure Palace Could Be All Yours For Just $3,000!

Ever looked at a 1980 Dodge conversion van and thought, “This bitch needs another axle.” You probably haven’t because you’re not on the level that the person who built this...

The 2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk: Functional, Fun But….WTF (Why The Face?)

From 1984-2001 the Jeep Cherokee was a tough, indestructible, and basic SUV. In a stroke of what we will smart-assedly call “genius”, Chrysler killed off the Cherokee after 2001 and...

Video: This Insane 12-Rotor Rotary Engine Has Us Wanting One Bad – 5,000 Potential Horsepower

Yes, we said 9,000 horsepower potential. We’re not pulling that number out of our keisters either. It is listed on the R12 website as the highest potential output from this 960ci 12-rotor piece...

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Turbo Buick V6 Powered Geo Metro Goes 9s @ 140+ — You Thought The Fiat 126 Was Bad Ass? This Thing Is Insane (video)

(By Greg Rourke) – Show of hands everyone!  Who doesn’t like a big motor in a small car?  Hmm…zero, just as I thought.  After Brian’s story about the small block powered...

Historic Sportscar Racing Ltd. Names Dorsey Schroeder as Competition Director For 2014 And Beyond

We got a note from our friends at HSR saying that they had some big news and when we told them to lay it on us we found out that they weren’t kidding! The organization has named Dorsey...

3D printer Announced That Can Print Carbon Fiber: Printing Of Car Parts On The Horizon? (w/video)

Listen, I’m a nerd, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m really excited about the video at the bottom of this blog item which shows an “affordable” 3D printer that claims to be...

Donk On Ice: Video Of A Donked-Out Caprice Trapped On Ice Sums Up The Southern Ice/Snow Catastrophe In A Nutshell

We have seen the images from Atlanta to Alabama of trapped cars, wrecked trucks, and people stranded on highways because of ice and snow conditions that descended on otherwise warm places. Who is to...

Bob’s Big Boy Cruise Night Photos – The Iconic So Cal Hot Rodding Spot You Need To Visit

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) Every year Bob Chiluk, and his father in-law Jim, come to Southern California for a week of hot rodding fun and excitement and a little bit of surfing. They come out during the...

Wishes On Wheels: An Incredible Tour Of A 1950s Chrysler Plant – Engine Line, Body Line, More!

Every time we find something neat we proclaim it as one of the coolest things we have ever posted, but that’s no stretch when it comes to the film “Wishes On Wheels” a 1950s...

The 2014 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels – More Cool Cars, Trucks, and Flying Bikes From The Show

(Photos by Mike Brooks) — Yesterday we brought you the first of two galleries from Mike Brooks who went to the 53rd Pittsburgh World of Wheels show last weekend. While the weather was...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best And Worst Factory Installed Graphics Package?

We can all recall some moment in our young hot rodding lives when we saw some magical offering out of Detroit that just grabbed us because of the killer graphics running down the side, over the hood,...