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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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COMP Performance Group Maintains Huge Presence On Power Tour In 2013 – You Could Win Big!

In 2013 the COMP Performance group will maintain a big presence on the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour and that’s great news for anyone planning on making the trip in their hot rod. Why? Because...

Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!

(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere...

Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois

(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level...

Video: Watch Chris Evans’ Massive X275 Wheelstand From MIR Last Weekend!

It has been a while since we’ve shown you a good old fashioned, all four wheels off the ground wheelstand video. This is racer Chris Evans competing in his great looking X275 Mustang at the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Racing Junk Find J-79 Jet Engine?

Calling on a jet engine must be super cool. I mean just saying “Yeah, I’m calling about the jet engine you have for sale?” LOL That would rule all! I totally want this. I...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Racing In The Street” Bruce Springsteen (1978)

The description of the car, the strip, the girl, the dream…all of it romanticizes street racing just like all our own old stories. It’s not that the details are more or less real from one...

Video: Watch The Mammoth Air Mundy Mega Truck Take Flight And Then Slog Though A Deep Muck Hole

We’ve showed you video of Dan Mundy’s insane Chevy truck before but here’s some new footage of “Air Mundy” getting it done and in fine fashion. The truck was out tearing...

Big Weekend For RideTech In Nashville – The Big Sweep!

Have been in the catbird seat announcing the action at the 8th Goodguys Nashville Nationals I was there to see the guys and girls at RideTech have a banner weekend in competition. Lots of their...

Screaming Video: Watch A 2008 Mustang With A 358CI NASCAR Engine Make A Dyno Pull – Bad Ass Road Racer!

The Mustang Shop in Washington state is in the final stages of completing a 2008 Mustang the likes of which we have never seen for the NASA American Iron Extreme class. What was their build plan?...

Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!

(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to...

Road Trip Diary: Taking The Long Road Home In A Hemi 300C Finding Killer Cars Along The Way!

(Words and Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Editor’s Note: Bryan McTaggart is an OG BangShifter and he filed this report of cruising his hemi powered 300C from Arizona to his wife’s...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1973 Ventura Sprint From Seven Ups VS The 1984 Diplomat From Short Time (W/Video)

Today it is two police mo-chines getting after it which is a far happier situation than Friday’s battle which was set in a world that had been completely decimated by nuclear weapons, wars over...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Been Your Best Automotive Surprise?

Not the let the cat out of the bag early on something, but later today GM is dropping off a 2013 Camaro SS Hot Wheels edition for an upcoming road test story. Normally when I have a car coming, I...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Finish Line – Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush (1980)

Man, you all have Johnny Hunkins of Popular Hot Rodding to thank for this one! I was hanging out with him at the Goodguys Nashville show one night and of course the topic came to music. Johnny is a...