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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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Craigslist Find: The Oft Spoken About But Seldom Seen Lambo-Trar!

We’ve featured many Trars on the pages of BangShift over the years but none of them has been as  unique in the body department as this one is. Located by BangShifter Matt Cramer in Florida,...

Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 – News and Photos From The Road On Monday!

It was a great day of action at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 sponsored by Gear Vendors and Pep Boys Speed Shop on Monday as racers attacked the quarter mile at the historic Beech Bend Raceway in...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Will Pro Mod Style Cars Ruin Hot Rod Drag Week?

We’ve got a strong opinion on this one, as does just about everyone else who cares about Hot Rod Drag Week, but we’re going to let you guys answer first and then I’ll let you know...

Photos: ADRL Dragstock 2013 Photos From Rockingham. Pro Mods, Drag Radial, And More.

Based on the crowd at last weekend’s ADRL Dragstock race in Rockingham, the locals are in love with ADRL Drag Racing. It is pretty bitchin, so we can’t argue with their passion. Luckily...

Video: Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2013 Unlimited Class Preview By 1320Video

While I was flying home from LS Fest to get equipment ready for BangShift.com’s LIVE streaming video coverage of the New England Hot Rod Reunion starting this Thursday, Kyle Loftis from...

1973 Drag Racing Documentary: Burn On – See The Best Jungle Jim Video Interview Ever!

To us, nothing is cooler than old school drag racing movies coming out of hibernation and finding their way onto the internet. We were tipped off to the newest and coolest one out there today. It is...

Gasser Video: Burnouts On BangShift’s Drive To LS Fest

We had an awesome time cruising from Ridetech to LSFest last Thursday and documented the trip on ShowTheDrive.com, but the highlight had to be when we slid into RB&S Automotive in Beaver Dam...

Question of the Day: If You Were 16 Today and Given $5,000 to Buy A Car What Would It Be?

Let’s play a little “what if” game today. What if it was your 16th birthday on this very date and a well to do grand parent handed you $5,000 in cold hard cash for you to purchase a...

Show The Drive: BangShift Chad’s Roadtrip To LS Fest Behind The Wheel Of A 1LE Camaro

This was a fun trip. Sure it was only a few hours of driving, but it was on some of the most beautiful and simple roads that Indiana and Kentucky had to offer. And thanks to Scott and Michael of...

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Event Photos: We Saw It All At Holley’s LS Fest 2013, And Have Photos To Prove It!

Lucky for us BangShift.com Contributor Bob Chiluk was on site snapping photos like a mad man at this weekend’s Holley LS Fest because Brian and I were announcing the entire weekend. While Brian...

Video: A Giant Antique Diesel Engine Comes To Life Again After 30 Years Of Sitting

Most of our regular readers will expect that this blog item would come from Brian rather than Chad, but the truth is we both dig watching cool old motors run, even if it is on diesel. The engine in...

MORE: HISTORIC

MSD Performance Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, We Find Out What’s Really Going On

When the announcement came out yesterday that MSD Performance had voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, everyone immediately started freaking out about parts availability, contingency...

Stopping Power Video: How Boeing Tests the Brakes on a Giant 747-8 Passenger Plane – This Will Ease Your Fear Of Flying…We Promise!

Boeing’s747-8 is the latest evolutionary step in the long standing 747 line. It is a huge by large flying machine that represents the best the company has to offer. The interesting thing about...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Worse Idea – The Flying Pinto Or Turbonique?

Human beings are very interesting creatures for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is our ability to come up with some really bad ideas and see them all the way to a predictable and horrible...