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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 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! 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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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! 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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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden 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 as...

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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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Question of the Day: What the Slowest/Least Powerful Car You Have Ever Owned?

After talking to a friend who races Formula Vee cars yesterday, we got to thinking about low powered cars we have owned over the years. Now, the Formula Vee weighs 850lbs so it is pretty quick so the...

Day Of The Drags 2013 – More Great Photos From The Event!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we brought you the first great gallery of Charles Wickam photos from his time at the 2013 Kontinentals Day of the Drags event at Little River Dragway in...

Watch Wild In Car Video Of A Mitsubishi EVO Spinning Out Of Control At The Drags! Shockingly No Wreckage!

Justin Richards went to Milan Dragway in his 1967 Ford F100 truck for a little test and tune action last weekend. It is obviously fall in Michigan so the air is crisp, there is plenty of horsepower...

Original Mercury 7 Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies At 88 Years Old

And then there was one. 92-year old John Glenn stands as the last living member of the original Mercury 7 with the passing of Scott Carpenter on October 10th. Carpenter was the fourth American in...

Project Violent Valiant: A Mopar Powered Pro Touring Ass Kicker That Is Anything But Nice!

We’re proud to announce that BangShift will be teaming up with the talented guys at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle in Addison, Illinois to bring your the full blow by blow account of the build of...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Non-Internet Automotive Information Resource?

While it is true that the internet can provide an answer for virtually any question you can dream up (automotive or otherwise), sometimes firing up the ol’ Google machine and punching keys...

Incredible Craigslist Find: A 1979 Dodge D-50 Truck – Motor In Cab, Driver Sits In Bed, Thing Hauls!

One of the many reasons that the BangShift readership rules all others is because whenever you see something in your internet or physical travels you whack a photo, save the link, and then send it to...

Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Car Show – League Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more Wickam action! You know it has finally cooled off in Texas because the shows and races are going full bore and Charles literally cannot...

Check Out Our Gallery From Day Of The Drags 2013 – Nostalgia Perfection!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Every year about this time we get sore with Charles Wickam. Why? Mainly because he is at Little River Dragway in Texas for the Kontinentals Day of the Drags and we...

Is This The World’s Smallest Electronically Fuel Injected Engine? 100% Scratch Built By Hand And MegaSquirt Brains! (Video)

This video is heading around the internet like wildfire and for good reason. It features a 100% scratch built 45cc V8 engine that is electronically fuel injected. If that isn’t awesome enough,...

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The Aussies Have A Two Seat Top Fuel Dragster – This Is Not A Flipping Drill! (Video)

We’ve long reveled at the awesome Powercruise shows that go down in Australia and at a couple locations here in the USA. Sadly we haven’t been able to attend one ourselves, but we sure...

Throwdown In T-Town LIVE Broadcast: Saturday Replay Available Now!

UPDATE: Watch all of Saturday’s action without some of the downtime! Pro Mods, Outlaw Doorslammers, Outlaw 10.5, Drag Radial and Much More! This Friday and Saturday we’ll be live...

BangShift Question of the Day: What Dead Car Company Would You Bring Back to Life With One Billion Dollars?

The list of dead car companies is damned long. Some of the names are infamous like Yugo. Some of the names are legendary like Duesenberg and nearly all of them are lamented by legions of devoted...

100 Photos of Chevy Novas!

The Chevy Nova is a staple at car shows, drag strips, cruise nights, autocrosses, and anywhere that car guys are getting together with their classic American iron. Hell, my dad still races the 1970...