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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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PowerShift Is LIVE AND FREE Tonight At 6pm Pacific and 9pm Eastern – Money Back Guarantee!

Tune in right here tonight at 6pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern for PowerShift LIVE with Chad and Brian where we are going to talk about the new Camaro Hot Wheels Edition, Magnante’s Bad Seed, NASCAR,...

Major Improvements Continue At New England Dragway As NHRA National Event Looms Large In Just A Couple Of Weeks

Normally we have the crappy duty of reporting on when a drag strip closes, changes ownership, gets in trouble with local government, or runs afoul of their customers…not today. We’re here...

Video: A Mini Cooper Does A HUGE Backflip In The Snow. This Rules, We Want To Try It!

Guerlain Chicherit is a certifiable bad ass. He’s a pro skier, rally driver, and more, plus he’s the dude driving this mini while it’s flipping over backwards. Watch the video,...

Nostalgia Drag Gallery: Gassers, Hot Rods and Bad Fast Street Cars at Drag Bash

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Memorial Day weekend is always packed with activities, so Tommy Lee Byrd hit the road to the small town of Maynardville, Tennessee, which is just north of...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Fastest You’ve Ever Gone In A Car?

Speed is one of the universal appeals of the hot rodding world. No matter what types of cars that you are into, the one thing we can all agree on is that going fast in them is fun. This question came...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Magic Bus” By The Who (1968)

Check this one out. As a kid, I grew up listening to The Who, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones. Those were my Dad’s favorites. In fact, I saw each of them in concert at least once before...

Barnstormin’: Missing The Great “All Or Nothing Races” and Celebrating The Few That Remain

Last Sunday I was one of the millions of Americans who planted their asses on the couch upon waking up Sunday morning and didn’t leave until nearly midnight, watching different forms of racing...

Gallery: Hemmings Musclepalooza 2013 – Great Photos From The Pits! Muscle Galore!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – For 13 straight years, not a drop of rain had visited the vaunted Hemmings Musclepalooza event at Lebanon Valley Dragway in New York…and then 2013 happened....

Rocket Racing Wheels Adds Black Lug Nuts To Wheel Accessory Lineup – Spiff Up Your Stuff!

As any good BangShifter knows, the devil is in the details when building a car. Hell, you’ll see tomorrow in a Buford T Justice project update just how drastic a difference a small cosmetic...

Ebay Find: A Vintage 1954 Anderson Travel Trailer That We Would Love To Own

Vintage travel trailers and motorhomes rule, and we are always lusting for some project online, just like we do for hot rods. Well, this is one of the nicest travel trailers we have ever seen....

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Gallery: More Killer Photos From the SoCal Bob’s Big Boy Cruise Night! Awesome Iron!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – Bob’s Big Boy in Toluca Lake has sponsored a Friday night cruise since the early 1990’s when it was saved from a developer intent on bulldozing...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1957 Chevy From Thunder and Lightning VS The 1957 Chevy From Return To Macon County (W/Video)

Yeah, we took a few days off from Celebrity Car Death Match. Why? Frankly because all of the rotting corpses of these celebrity cars were stacking up too quickly and we needed to clean house. We did...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Roadtrip Plans Do You Have For This Summer?

As the start of Power Tour approaches, we know that all you Forum Freaks will be out in force at Hot Rod’s annual pilgrimage of horsepower, but what about the rest of you? Are you going to do...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Uneasy Rider ’73” Charlie Daniels – The Audio Version Of The Dukes Or Bandit

There are two “Uneasy Rider” songs, but this is the first and was recorded in 1973. The second is like Part II to this one, but in this one Charlie Daniel’s amazing story telling...