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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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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Song Brings Back Your Favorite Road Trip Memory?

Today’s BangShift Daily Tune Up is Willie Nelson singing “On The Road Again”, which always makes me think of the family trip around the country we made in 1982 in a motorhome. Other...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “On The Road Again” Willie Nelson 1980

Whether you like country, western, or both, everyone knows this song. Written for the soundtrack of Honeysuckle Rose, it became a huge hit and is the theme song so to speak for Willie Nelson. In 1982...

Drag Gallery: The Mo-Kan Dragway Spring Nostalgia Reunion

(Photos by Steve Wilson Motorsports Photography) – Asbury, Missouri is home to historic Mo-Kan Dragway. The place has been going strong for more than 50 years and they host some of the coolest...

Should They Build It? Our Take On What A Street Going Retro COPO Camaro Would Look Like Today

(Rendering by Stu Wotypka/ID Motorsport Design) – Every year on April Fool’s Day we run a cool rendering from our buddy Stu up in Canada who is the brains and talent behind ID Motorsport...

Bad Ass Save: Aussie Top Door Slammer Driver Gonzo Travalini Suffers A Major Top End Explosion And Drives The Car Like A Champ!

You know a guy is a hardcore drag racer with a name like Gonzo Travalini and he proved it with a driving performance for the ages at the Perth Motorplex recently. Travalini was competing in the Top...

Happy 17th Anniversary Ridetech!!! Praise The Lowered, You Have Been Blessed With FREE Shipping

Maybe it’s because they are super cool people, or maybe it’s because they started a company from nothing just like we’ve done here at BangShift.com, but something about the guys and...

Gallery: Mustangs And Only Mustangs From Fabulous Fords Forever 2013

The automotive world changed forever in 1964 when Ford rolled out its new car called the Mustang. It sold beyond anyone’s wildest expectations and would go on to become one of the most iconic...

Drag Gallery: Sportsman Action And Pit Photos From Thunder Valley Raceway Park – Oklahoma

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Yesterday we ran Brad Klaassen’s cool story and photos from the recent outlaw fuel altered meet at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Oklahoma. The AA/FAs were...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The Indestructible 1968 Ford F-100 From Mr Majestyk VS The Unstoppable 1982 Dodge Ramcharger From Lone Wolf McQuade (W/Video!)

Celebrity Car Death Match has become a bonafide national craze (because Chad and I live on opposite coasts and laugh like idiots coming up with the fights!) and cannot be stopped. The list of match...

Chevrolet Performance Offering COPO Camaro Rollers For $55,000! Limited Quantity Almost Sold Out!

Have you wanted a COPO but been shunned from the list? Maybe you’ve got $55,000 saved up for a factory drag race Camaro but not a penny more. Well, consider your prayers answered because...

Craigslist Find: A 2006 “Custom One-Of-A-Kind” Car -TRANSLATION – 2006 WTF?

There are lots of days when I go outside, see the Caprice and think, “Man, you are a total weirdo.” Then I get tipped off to stuff like this creation and suddenly, I am as normal as a guy...

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Drag Gallery: Texas Outlaw Fuel Altereds Re-Baptize Thunder Valley Raceway In Nitro!

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) -I remember the day nitromethane, methanol, and high octane racing fuel brought Thunder Valley Raceway Park (TVRP) near Noble Oklahoma to life on May 30th, 1992,...

Wild Video: Watch x275 Racer Shane Fischer Make An Amazing Save At Holly Springs Dragstrip!

Another day, another small tire insanity video! Our buddy Mark Walter was at Holly Springs Drag Strip last weekend filming their famed Shootout race. During one round of X275 action, racer Shane...

Gallery: Bitchin’ Early Broncos From The 2013 Fabulous Fords Forvever Show!

Early Ford Broncos are iconic for all the right reasons. The trucks were relatively inexpensive at the time they debuted, they were built like anvils, had a nice short wheelbase for capable off...