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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

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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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana 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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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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Help Us Find This Utterly Bitchin’ Corvette – Formerly Owned By Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer – Is It Still Around? Is It Lost To History? Help!

We need your help to find one of the coolest custom Corvettes ever built. This was the machine of Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer the well known painter, customizer, and hot rodder from NY....

Drag Battle: Tanner Foust’s World RallyCross Fiesta Versus Roy Hill’s 5.0L Supercharged Cobra Jet Mustang…Who Wins? (Video)

We wish that we had Ford Racing’s video production budget because we’d be pulling guys like Roy Hill and Tanner Foust together for fun like they do! We don’t know who to credit, but...

Garlits Museum’s 2014 International Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced

(Courtesy of Darr Hawthorne) International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2014 announced The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, housed at the famed Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing...

Ride Along In The World’s Quickest GTR As It Goes 7.87/187 At Santa Pod – The Driver Is Working HARD!

While we’re certainly not known as guys who spend a lot of time talking about Nissan GTRs here at BangShift, we are guys who get impressed by amazingly quick and fast drag strip passes,...

Barnstormin’ – You Can’t Put The VHT Back In The Barrel (Or The PJ1)

Yesterday, I ran a blog item showing a couple of runs being made by top fuel dragsters in Japan. What’s interesting about drag racing in Japan is that they do not believe in preparing their...

Video: Harry And Daniel Davies Share An Epic Road Trip In Bill Burnhams “Old Blue” Roadster

The guys at ShareTheDrive.com have shared an epic one with us. This video shows Harry and Daniel Davies accounts of their father and son roadtrip behind the wheel of Bill Burnham’s “Old...

Triumph Video: Leon Smith And The Epic Thump Truck Kenworth Bust Into The 13s! 10 Tons and A Stick Shift!

It has been an elusive chase, but Leon Smith the owner and driver of the law dropping Kenworth dump truck that we named the “Thump Truck” has finally collected his first 13-second time...

Video: A 395 MPH Streamliner Ride Along That Is Goes Every Which Way But Straight At Bonneville

Bob Dalton is a bad ass. Not only because he brought a Bill E Badass streamliner to Bonneville this year, but because he and a kick ass group of racers and hot rodders built the entire thing...

BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Jacked Up Project Car You Have Ever Brought Home?

Obviously, one of the most fun parts of his hobby is searching, finding, and retrieving projects to wrench on. Both Chad and I prefer vehicles that are not complete and total wrecks that may need...

PowerShift LIVE: POSTPONED FOR HALLOWEEN! Will Return Nightly From SEMA Next Week!

Yes folks Brian and I are taking the night off in order to spend some time with the kiddos. With SEMA around this time each year, it’s uncommon for us to be home during Halloween, so we are...

One Of The Most Hilarious Tow Truck Driver Fail Videos Ever – Right Here!

Oh boy did this guy have a bad day yesterday. An unknown tow truck driver responded to a crash on a mountain road where a driver had rolled their car up onto its side. The driver had two jobs here....

Nitrous 101: Summit Racing Equipment’s Video Guide To Nitrous Systems For Cars (And Trucks Too!)

The guys over at OnAllCylinders.com have a bunch of cool tech videos, how to articles, and more that we are going to start sharing with all you BangShifters so you can get even smarter. That and so...

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Two Vastly Different But Totally Awesome Ford Roadsters To Debut At SEMA – Blue Steel and Double Down! Ford Powered Awesomeness

Hitting the SEMA show hard every year to bring you the newest in hot rodding innovation, the coolest new builds, and all the scoop from inside the industry is tough work, but we’re here for...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Little Car Gets Blown Apart, Stripped, and Dipped – Cool Parts Start Arriving!

Listen, we told you that there would be no moss growing under the Project Violent Valiant stone and we weren’t kidding. After introducing you to the victim starting point of the project last...