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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! 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...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The HISTORY of Alabama’s Favorite Wheelstanding Farm Truck!

Only in the 1960s did a track like Baileyton Goodtime Dragstrip have an in house wheelstander. I mean it wasn’t theirs, but was regularly seen at the track and there are tons of stories about...

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BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Lohnes’s Favorite Snaps From An Adventurous 2013

(Photos by the author) — So Nutting kicked off a series of “BangShift Photo Highlight Reel” stories that we’re going to run featuring all of our contributors who want to cull...

The Humbler: Five Buddies Built This Cheap Turbo Jeep To Go 12s And Destroy On The Autocross

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – This could be the most BangShifty vehicle we have ever featured before. Built by a group of five smart friends and raced at the Grassroots Motorsports $2,000...

This 1977 Ramcharger Promotional Video Is 70s Truck Porn At Its Best – Wagon Wheels, Knobby Tires, OOGA BOOGA!

For probably the last 10 years I have dreamed about building a late 1970s style 4×4 truck, complete with the chrome nerf bar in the bed, white steel wagon wheels, maybe some Ground Hawg tires,...

Short Shift: A Weekend Road Trip In The 2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Edition Will Make You Want To Kill Your Small SUV

(Welcome to the Short Shift! This is where we’ll do less intensive reviews of new cars and stuff that we get a chance to have some quality time with. Manufacturers will sometimes ask us if we...

This Match Race In Thailand Between A Hot Rod Diesel Truck And A 125cc Scooter Is Nuts!

We have been harping for a long time on the idea that drag racing is not just something that happens between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are strips on every continent aside from those...

BS Photo Highlight Reel: Dave Nutting’s Favorite Shots from 2013 – Trars, NHRA, and More!

With only a few weeks left in 2013, it’s that time of year again where all of the crazies that spend untold hours behind the viewfinder of a camera in order to bring you BangShifters the best...

Watch One Of The Most Horrendous High Speed Drag Race Wrecks We Have Ever Seen

Puerto Rico International Speedway was born from the remains of a US Army base that was constructed in 1940. In 1975 the track opened up as a drag strip and outside of a couple years in the 1980s it...

Craigslist Gold: This Ad For A Cool 1955 Olds Will Crack You Up!

BangShifter John Dent of the Denver, Colorado area sent us the tip on this ad and when he told us that we’d love it he was right! Lots of times funny CL ads are hawking some uninspiring junk...

Stu Hilborn Dead At 96 – Fuel Injection Master Was A Huge Influence On Industry

Stu Hilborn’s fascination with fuel injection and adapting it for use by hot rodders had a massive impact on the racing and rodding scene that continues to be felt today. Hilborn died Monday...

PRI 2013 – Our Last Blast Of People, Parts, and Cars From An Awesome Return To Indy!

(Photos by Chad) — Well, the 2013 PRI show is officially over and everyone (including the Roadkill guys) has finally packed up and vacated the convention center. By all accounts the show...

We’ve Got A New Sponsor! Prolong Super Lubricants Joins BangShift.com. Help Us Welcome Them!

As all you regular readers know, we have really great sponsors here at BangShift.com. Sponsors who’s support allows to to keep bringing you tons of content each and every day, FREE live...

Chadmouth: Traveling Rants From One Of The Travelenist Guys In Motorsports! Can We Just Cut Their Feet Off?

I was on the road 36 weekends this year, which is low compared to last year, but still a ton of travel. I defy anyone to have a more polished routine when rolling through airport security, the rental...

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This Paddle Tire Equipped Fox Mustang On A Puerto Rican Sand Drag Strip Makes Our Pants Tight (video)

Juncos, Puerto Rico was founded in 1797 and has a population of about 40,000 people as best my extensive research into the place can find. The extensive research was done while eating an extensive...

Nut Driver: I screw up a suspension install and drive a Toyota Highlander for the week

[“Nut Driver” is a new series that will feature updates on Dave Nutting’s attempts to daily drive his 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Massachusetts 365 days a year] We last left off with an...