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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

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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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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Galleries: More Haddick’s Hot Rod and Classic Car Show Photos From Southern California

Weather in the 90 degree range, beautiful blue skies, and hot rods galore made for a great day in the City of Industry at the Haddick’s Hot Rod and Classic Car Show this past weekend. Here...

Tuesday Time Killer: A 40-Minute Period Documentary Of The 1970 and 1971 Trans Am Seasons – Parnelli Jones, Mark Donohue, George Follmer, More!

Maybe you were off on vacation last week, maybe you are hoping that you’re on vacation this week. Either way, we have a film for you that’ll let you zone completely out for nearly...

Ebay Find: Camaro Rolling Chassis (CRC) #6 For Sale! Rolling Special Order COPO

Right now on eBay, there is a car for sale that I don’t think most people thought would ever come up on the block. Some of you will remember that back in April Chevrolet Performance made a...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Cars” Nine Inch Nails Featuring Gary Numan (2009)

Gary Numan sang the original “Cars” song which was released in 1979 and quickly became the “new wave” music hit that started off the ’80’s. It’s a song we...

Barnstormin’: The Comfort In Knowing That Risk Takers Abound

In recent east coast BS HQ news, my two sons moved into the same room together. That didn’t happen because we made them, it happened because they wanted to. My wife and I thought that was kind...

Jet-Hot Is Hosting A Driving School At The Famous Syracuse Nationals Car Show This Weekend — Be A Part Of It!

We know that lots of you out there in reader-land are super interested in testing your car’s mettle in events like autocross but you’ve never really done anything like it before so you...

Ebay Counterstrike: Ron Capps 1997 Rookie Of The Year NHRA Nitro Funny Car Body!

Brian put up the Kenny Bernstein Ford Tempo Funny Car body that he found on Ebay last night, and it doesn’t come close to being as cool as this 1997 Ron Capps “Rookie of the Year”...

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Video: A New And Bombproof Version Of The Old “Lightning Rods” Shifter! This Thing Is Bad To The Bone – DO WANT!

We’ve run a bunch of stuff on the old 1980s era Hurst Lightning Rods shifter that was available in the Hurst Olds production car and over the counter from your local speed shop. It gave the...

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eBay Find: Kenny Bernstein’s All Conquering 1985 Ford Tempo Body!

Let’s say that you have at least $15,000 bucks in your pocket and you are desperate to buy a really cool piece of drag racing history. We found it for you! An eBay seller has listed Kenny...

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Bill Warner, Land Speed Racing Legend And The First Man To Crest 300mph On A Traditional Motorcycle Has Died

It is with regret that I report my friend and a true land speed racing star, Bill Warner passed away on Sunday July 14, 2013 after sustaining serious injuries in a 285+ mph motorcycle crash on the...

Photos: The Haddick’s Car Show 2013 Kicked Even More Ass Than Last Year!

No matter what kind of car you are into, we probably have it in this gallery from the Haddick’s Car Show in the City of Industry here in So Cal. We hit the show early afternoon on Saturday, and...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your First Automotive Event, And How Old Were You?

For some reason, the past few weekends have been huge car show and racing weekends for us, from a kid perspective. We were at Perris Speedway for Sprint Car races on the 4th of July, at the...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Flamin’ Eddie’s Dragstrip” The Insect Surfers LIVE (2011)

Anthony Castillo strikes again with this awesome instrumental titled “Flamin’ Eddie’s Dragstrip”. The video is cool cause it was shot at the Purple Orchid in El Segundo,...

Video: Did A Jackass Spectator Cause This Racer To Suffer A Horrifying Pikes Peak Crash?

This is one of those videos that you see one and think, “Man, that guy is super lucky to have lived through that wreck!” Then you watch it a second time and your jaw clenches with rage...