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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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Cruise Gallery: The South Coastal Corvette Club All Makes/Models Cruise Night – Weymouth, Massachusetts

Since May, my traveling and announcing schedule has been pretty jam packed with events all over the country. I am eternally thankful for that but it doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for doing...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Four Speed, Five Speed, or Six Speed?

Like we always say around here, today’s aftermarket provides a nearly limitless sea of options for hot rodders and BangShifters to swim in when building their cars and trucks. We’re truly...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” Ace Ventura Pet Detective With Range Rover Flip

Ace Ventura, played by Jim Carrey, is known for some really stupid, but funny, lines, but he’s also known by car guys for his amazing ability to park a car. In the first Ace Ventura movie it...

Video: Urban Outlaw – An Unbelievably Well Done Story Of A Hot Rodders LIfe

The description of this video says “URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business....

MORE: HISTORIC, MISC

Drag Action Gallery: The Cecil County Dragway Outlaw Street Car Shootout – June 2013

(Photos by Jim Colraine) – Call it a tune up for the YellowBullet.com Nationals that’ll be rocking Cecil County Dragway in Maryland at the end of the summer or just call it a bad ass drag...

Video: Ford Recall’s 465,000 Cars For Fuel Leaks, We Show You Pinto Explosion Video!

With news that Ford is recalling 465,000 cars because of fuel leaks, it made us think about the always exciting Ford Pinto crash test video from the 70’s. It’s awesome because the poor...

Craigslist Find: One Weird Son Of A Bitch Three Wheeler Thing

When the title of a Craigslist ad reads,”1984 Tri Muler one of a kind not many of these around” you know it is going to be good. We looked high and low for information regarding the...

MORE: eBay Find

Updated: Walt Arfons Dies At 96 – Innovator, Thrust Driven Drag Race Pioneer, LSR Record Holder

(Editor’s Note: After this remembrance of  Walt Arfons ran yesterday we were contacted by our pal Bret Kepner and enlightened on several aspects of Walt’s life and accomplishments that...

Gallery: The Gooodguys Rod And Custom Association Pleasanton Summer Get Together 2013

(Photos by Chad and family) – Last weekend, Chad was at the 2013 Goodguys Pleasanton Get Together. The Goodguys “get together” shows are open to all year American cars, so unlike a...

Video: Hilarious Trailer Fail Video. Or…I Swear It Fit Through This Door Before!

What goes in, doesn’t always come out. LOL This is one hilarious video that shows you a few things. A. An “interference fit” is not something you want to hear when talking about...

Barnstormin’: There’s No I In TEAM (Or Brilliance Largely Works Alone)

Yesterday’s news and subsequent story about the passing of the great Walt Arfons garnered me more personal emails regarding the relationship between Walt and Art Arfons than the great majority...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Which Is More Annoying? Trailer Etiquette And Skills Discussed!

So this week, BangShift.com’s West Coast headquarters have been mobile. We decided to take an extended trip back home from the Pleasanton Goodguys show and have been traveling through some of...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Rusty Chevrolet” Da Yoopers (1987)

We know it’s June, and that “Rusty Chevrolet” is set to the same tune as “Jingle Bells”, but we still think it is worthy of a BangShift Daily Tune Up. Plus, maybe it...

Drag Gallery: Pro Street Racing Association Action Photos From Thunder Valley Raceway Park!

(Words and Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Despite Mother Nature having a complete meltdown the past couple of weeks in central Oklahoma, some semblance of normalcy managed to return to Thunder...