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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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Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Last time we visited Dennis Spal at his High Speed Welding shop in Westmont, Illinois he was finishing up the mechanical restoration of Grumpy’s Toy X....

Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift was in full force at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion this past weekend, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With Brian on the microphone, Chad...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When You Think Roadster, Which One Of These Pops Into Your Head?

When you ask most guys what their dream Roadster would be, they tend to rattle off some early to mid 30’s Ford that does or does not have fenders, hood, Flatty, steelies, etc. It seems that...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Classical Gas – Mason Williams (1968)

Chad’s been dominating the Daily Tune Up spot for a while so I thought it was my BS civic duty to wrestle control away from him for a day and class the joint up a little. I picked the 1968...

Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!

Any Taub was competing at Atco Dragway recently in her rear engine sportsman dragster. From the looks of the dial in board, this is a very low 7-second dragster, so we can safely assume that the car...

Monday Moment Of Photo Zen: A Gathering Of Bitchin’ Gassers At The 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

(Photo by Charles Wickam) – If you’re thinking that you missed out on something by not attending the 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green,...

Spy Photo: Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Has Some New T-56 and 4L80e Crossmembers For ’67 to ’76 GM F-Body

The guys at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks have been hammering out more and more new F-Body parts in their new No Fab lineup, and here is a spy photo of the newest addition in prototype form....

Dyno Test: A 2013 Mustang Barbie Edition Power Wheels Gets Strapped To The Rollers!

Hot rodders are all a little on the screwy side and when you combine that with our seemingly limitless level of need to know how powerful, fast, and otherwise performance oriented stuff is, this...

Would You Drive It? A Chevy Van That We Give A Resounding “YES YES YES!”

You never know what you are going to find at Beech Bend Raceway when it’s time for the National Hot Rod Reunion. Everything from hot rods, customs, trick golf carts, drag cars, and more are all...

Gallery: Fire Breathing Cacklefest Photos From The 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The nostalgia drag racing world has developed some cool rituals and traditions over the years but in our eyes the coolest is clearly the famed Cacklefests that...

Great News: Arizona’s Former Firebird International Raceway Will Reopen In Sept As Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park

The resurrection of Arizona’s premier racing facility will be complete by the end of the summer of 2013. ArizonaAutoScene.com is reporting that the track is going through some renovations and...

Video Insanity: A Top Dragster Blowover Wheelstand You Will Have To See To Believe

When Mark Walter, with MotormaniaTV, sent us the link to this one on Friday after he recorded this at the X-DRL Gateway Shootout, we were mesmerized. After all, it’s not very often that you see...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Do You Secretly Want, But Wouldn’t Tell Your Buddies About?

After spending the weekend watching cool Nostalgia Drag Cars running down the famed 1320 at Beech Bend Raceway, and talking about Olds Powered Slingshot Dragsters, Gassers, Boats, and More, it became...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Pedal To The Metal” Kazzer (2002) We Suck For Not Doing This One Sooner

With a Weiand 6-71 Blower being the very first image you see in Kazzer’s video for “Pedal to the Metal”, we totally should have run this already as a BangShift Daily Tune Up. The...