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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Wednesday 64 Car 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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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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Free Drag Racing Livestream: Wednesday Testing from the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Nationals at Darana Raceway in Hebron Ohio

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The first two events of the year have been awesome, and this weekend is going to be race #3 from Darana Raceway...

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Chassis, Suspension And Rocker Work On The Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication Swedish Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks...

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Rio Heat Show: John Jackson Heads South for the Loudest Show in the Rio Grande Valley! Plus BBQ Joint Visits!

John Jackson is back at it, this time in our home state of Texas as he visits the Rio Grande Valley for the Rio Heat Show. And not only did he capture awesome cars and custom trucks, but also made a...

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Project Update: The Wally’s World GTO Is Going To The OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational!

To say that Wally and the rest of the build team are excited about getting an invitation to the Optima Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational would be the understatement of the year! After a...

Mini-Feature: A ’69 Dodge Sweptline With Cummins Power, 50 Gears, A Tucked Dually Rear And More!

So there we were, cruising the pits at Famoso, surrounded by hundreds of truly awesome race cars and I spotted it. The IT was the 1969 Dodge Sweptline truck you will see below. My eye immediately...

ADRL Houston 2013 – Our Last Blast Of Great Action Photos!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last blast of photos from the lens of Charles Wickam who was camped out at the ADRL event in Houston, Texas last weekend to capture the action for...

Genius Parody Video: Watch Ken “Box” Gymkhana A Razor Crazy Cart Through A Warehouse And Office

Normally parody videos are hit or miss, especially when they are done by a company promoting a product but we have to hand it to the men and women at Razor because they hit a home run with this video...

Moron Stock Car Racer Manages To Get DUI DURING A Race – This Guy Deserves Everything He Gets

Mark our words. By the end of this story you’re going to want to punch a guy named Tommy Lathan right in the yam bag for doing one of the worst things we have heard of anyone doing at a race...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Hit The Road, Do Burnouts, Save A Custom Mercury, Overheat, Make A Father and Son’s Day

So this is the feel good Roadkill of the fall. Freiburger and Finnegan hit the highway in this episode of the show to get a custom Mercury up and running so they can deliver it to its new owner. They...

Watch A Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Truck Over Shoot A Jump And Endo Like A Mother!

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is pretty much chock full of non-stop action. There are trucks flying all over the place, dirt getting slung off of rear tires, passing, and aggressive moves to...

A Couple Of Guys From An Awful CNBC Show Make The Worst Video About Nitrous Ever – Seriously

Apparently there is a show on CNBC called “Car Chasers”. We’ve never seen it, but we were tipped off to a video starring the two lead guys from the show that appeared on...

Sweden’s Tierp Arena Drag Strip Files For Bankruptcy – One Of Europe’s Premier Drag Plants In Limbo

It has been kind of a crazy year for strips opening, closing, coming back from the dead, being offered up for sale, etc. We heard some not so good news from a Swedish BangShift reader yesterday when...

Question of the Day: Laid Out Or Nose High? What is Your Stance Preference?

We’re going to force you into a corner today with this question. Following yesterday’s gasser inquire, we’re making you choose between the two most polar opposite stances in the hot...

More ADRL Action Photos All Up In Yo Business! Bikes, Pro Extreme, Pro Mod and More From Houston!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Our nearly week long exhibition of Charles Wickam’s action and pit photos from last weekend’s ADRL event in Houston continues today with this fine...

Project Violent Valiant: Here’s The Timid Little Car Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle Is Starting With!

Every project starts somewhere. We wanted to make this first update on the awesome Violent Valiant being built by Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle about the little Plymouth that’s to be transformed...

eBay Find: A 1963 Ford Galaxie That Is Packing Holman Moody SOHC Power And Just A Bad Interior – Do You Agree?

Ok, so this is the part where I express an opinion regarding a car I was tipped off to on eBay and then I’ll probably get an angry note from the seller of said car. Just a little “behind...

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Action Gallery: Race Wars II At El Paso Motorplex – Door Slammers, Dragsters, Racing!

(Photos by Justin Oney)- Recently, one of our Texas contributors was at El Paso Motorplex for an event deemed Race Wars II. This event combined some hard core heads up action with a few different...