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Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors headquarters in Lincoln, NE is right across the parking lot from the Museum Of American Speed. Together, they put on a cars and coffee gathering...

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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $50,000 Sunday

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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eBay Find: A Real Deal VW Bug Funny Car From The ’60s With Small Block Power

When I decided to look for a cool Nostalgia car for an eBay pick in honor of the New England Hot Rod Reunion, I never expected to find a real deal VW Beetle Funny Car with a small block in it. And I...

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The 2013 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Great Photos From A Retro-Cool Event!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – There are lots of “drag strip reunion” events that happen across the country now and that’s cool with us. These events are a great way to honor...

800hp, Naturally Aspirated 461ci Windsor Build and Dyno Video – A Chevy Killer Is Born!

Last week we showed you video of a naturally aspirated LS engine making big power on the dyno before LS Fest. Many of you expressed your opinion of being sick of LS engines but James Forgan went a...

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Counterfeit Product Alert: How To Identify A Real MSD 6AL Ignition VS A Fake

Being the number one selling aftermarket ignition in history is both a good thing and a curse sometimes. The good is pretty obvious, but with sales of jillions of MSD 6AL boxes also comes access to...

eBay Find: Could This1969 Camaro Be BangShift.com’s Drag Week Winner For 2014

When we saw this Camaro on eBay we wanted it immediately, partly because of it’s super cool paint. In our opinion nothing would look cooler than us driving this bad boy down the freeway next to...

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More Drag Racing Photos From ADRL’s Dragstock X at Rockingham

Yesterday we told you that Benoit “The Frenchman” Pigeon shot a bunch of cool photos at Dragstock X last weekend and that we thought we might even have enough for a cool bonus gallery...

Watch A Lola T-70 Can Am Car Tear Around Sebring – Big Block Chevy Road Racing Goodness

There are few things cooler than guys who have really rare and special stuff who are unafraid to get after it on the race track with said rare stuff. This video of a Lola T-70 MK III B Coupe getting...

Hot Rod Drag Week Day 2: Blazing Hot (Literally) Action From Lucas Oil Raceway

It was nearly 100 degrees at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana yesterday and that was just fine with a couple of Hot Rod Drag Week competitors who managed to further scorch the Earth with huge runs on a...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Would You Daily Drive A Car With A Roll Cage In It?

Yesterday we asked whether or not Pro Mod style cars would ruin Hot Rod’s Drag Week, and got a ton of interesting comments, but I would say that most people think they are a bad idea. With that...

Drag Week 2013 Photos From Tech Day At Beech Bend Raceway – Awesome Cars

(Photos by BS Forum Member TheOutsider) – One of the days that hot rodders all over the country look forward to is tech day at Hot Rod Drag Week. This year the tour began at Beech Bend Raceway...

Video: 1320Video Catches Drag Weeks’ Quickest Run, A Steering Wheel Coming Off, And More!

Kyle and the 1320Video crew are catching all the coolest stuff on Hot Rod’s Drag Week 2013 this week, and jamming it all up each and every night. It would be rude of us not to brag about how...

Watch AJ Fiorelli Pull A 770-Foot Wheelie In A Barracuda With No Wheelie Bar, A Manual Transmission, And A Motor In The Front

We’ve gotta love guys like AJ Fiorelli. Last weekend at Central Illinois Dragway, AJ took his Barracuda down the entire eighth mile strip, plus 100-feet on the rear wheels. This would be cool...

Crash Video: A Mud Bog Jeep Ends Up in the Pond

Racing high performance mud trucks ain’t easy. The task gets even harder when the dude who designed the mud pit apparently wanted to kill as many of the competitors as possible due to the...

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,...