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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: Here Are The NSRA Nostalgia Nationals 2026 LIVE From Santa Pod!

Santa Pod’s National Street Rod Association Nostalgia Nationals are live right here! And thanks to the awesome streaming team at Santa Pod, you can watch live from all over the world for free. You...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert

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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Our 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Keep Coming! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

Here’s gallery #3, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park...

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FREE LIVE IMSA RACING FROM WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA! Michelin Pilot Challenge, Mustang Challenge, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, And More!

Here we go. The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series is visiting Laguna Seca, one of the most famous race tracks in the country! We’re talking the Michelin Pilot...

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Road Racing Livestream From Croft In The UK: The British Automobile Racing Club At Croft Circuit LIVE May 2-3

It’s time for more road racing in Croft! This weekend has the British Automobile Racing Club back at it again with fun racing action at Croft Circuit just outside of Darlington in the Northern UK....

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FREE LIVESTREAM: GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 2026 At Brands Hatch

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here from the UK! We dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to...

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Craigslist Find: If Wanting This Is Wrong We Don’t Want To Be Right. Jumping It Would RULE!

So who’s loaning us the money for this bad boy? With 444 horsepower at the tires, a great cage, tons of spares, and perfect black paint, we’ll look good jumping this thing for all...

Friday FunDay Video: Awesome Jump Compilation Video That Rules And Makes Us Want to Jump Stuff

This is the kind of video that “inspires” you to get on Craigslist and buy some hunk of crap for $200 and go jump it. I wish I could actually tell you that this should be your goal for...

Firebird aka Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park Has Multi-Million Dollar, 120 Day Renovation Plan

We’ve been following the closing and opening and management changes at Firebird Raceway since the beginning of the drama at the famed Arizona facility. And throughout the adventure we have said...

New: Rocket Racing Wheels Offers RPM7 “Magnesium Gold” For All New Rocket Wheels

Remember how all the Magnesium wheels, blowers, and valvecovers of the ’60s and ’70s were sort of a gold color? Well that gold color was actually a coating called DOW 7 and was applied to...

SummerNats Top 10 Burnouts. The Aussie’s Own The Title “King’s Of Smoke”

After running the 1320 Video Burnout Contest video yesterday I had tire smoke on the brain and decided we needed more. A lot more. So, here are the top 10 Burnouts as judged at the 2013 SummerNats in...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Vintage Drag Car?

Looking at Joe’s photos from Beaver Springs yesterday had us totally cranked up on nostalgia drag racing. That’s led to more than a couple conversations regarding our favorite old drag...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Surf City” Jan and Dean (1963)

“I bought a ’34 wagon and we call it a Woodie, Surf City here we come, You know it’s not very cherry, It’s an oldie but a goodie, Surf City here we come.” How can you...

Nostalgia Video: 1966 Lion’s Drag Racing Video By French Film Crew. Excellent Quality Footage.

Too bad we don’t have a clue as to what the hell they are saying, but we don’t really care. All we know is this is some of the best quality footage we’ve seen from Lion’s in...

Ebay Find: If The Blues Brothers Built A Pro Street Car, This Is What It Would Look Like. BangShift Approved.

When we get stuff like this in the BangShift.com In Box, it always make us giggle like little girls. No matter how many times we see something weird, like this Blues Brothers inspired Polara Pro...

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Super Slow Motion Video: A Fox Body Mustang Stands On The Bumper And Slo Mo Is Awesome!

This is great video of a Fox Body Mustang GT Convertible drag radial car leaving the starting line and standing on the bumper. In fact, you can see that the rear tires actually leave the ground if...

This Is It! The Final Gallery From Meltdown Drags At Byron. 100 More Great Shots.

Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk are the hardest working, unpaid sonsa…. Uh….they work really hard to send us great photos and we don’t pay them. They rule. And you should love them for...

New Product: Painless Performance Unveils New Nostalgia Harness. Simple And Black Is Where It’s At.

The guys at Painless Performance have been building high quality wiring harnesses for decades, and we’ve installed dozens of them. One feature of a Painless harness that makes it super simple...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “I Get Around” Beach Boys (1964) When Cruising And Racing Were King

We’re huge Beach Boys fans around here as you well know, which is why it’s sort of strange that we haven’t had “I Get Around” on the Daily Tune Up until now. I love this...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Car Or Truck Model Name Ever?

On Monday we asked you what the coolest, or best, car or truck model name ever was and you gave some really interesting answers. Mercury’s Comet and Marauder were both mentioned, as was the...