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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Teaser: Steve Magnante Comes To BangShift And Tells All About The Bad Seed In Epic Three Part Series — Starts Tuesday! Be HERE!

(Photo – Steve Magnante collection) – We’re rat bastards for doing this but we have to let you know what’s coming. Firstly, Steve Magnante is our newest BangShift contributor....

Show Gallery: The 2013 Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Hot Rods, Cool Trucks, Muscle and More!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Last weekend, Tommy Lee Byrd made his annual trip (a whole 4 miles) to the Strawberry Festival Cruise In, held in his hometown of Dayton, Tennessee....

Video: Watch A Heavy Truck/Equipment Tire Explode (In A Cage) When Being Overfilled

Dangers lurk in every corner when wrenching on stuff. This video shows the amazing and potentially deadly destructive forces that are released when a heavy duty tire is overfilled and blows up. I...

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Craigslist Find: The Rarest Jeep In The World – A 1969 CJ5 Camper Special

Thanks to Joe Haber, we have this perfectly awesome and super rare 1969 Jeep Camper Special to share with you. Yes, this was a factory available package you could have bought from a Jeep dealer in...

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Ebay Find: A 1959 Ninety-Eight Fiesta Station Wagon — Perfect Driver Condition — Wagon Greatness!

Maybe we’ve just lead sheltered lives, but our prying eyes have never been graced with the coolness of a 1959 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon before. This car is not in factory restored...

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Celebrity Car Death Match: Apocalypse Showdown! The Landmaster VS The Mad Max Pursuit Special Falcon!

Yesterday’s battle of Pontiacs was a knock down, drag out affair that pitted family members against one another, had Chad and I trading insults across the continent and reportedly ended four...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Jet Airliner – The Steve Miller Band (1977)

Here’s a fitting one to round out the BangShift blog week with as both Chad and I have been on planes heading to different places since you last read the blog yesterday. Chad winged off to...

A Guy I Once Spent Nearly 24 Hours Straight In A Truck With Just Reset The Guinness Record For World’s Longest Drift (Video)

Johan Schwartz is a damned fine driver, a BMW instructor, the Guinness World Record holder for completing the world’s longest drift (at more then 51-MILES in lenght) and is a guy I spent 24...

NASCAR History BangShift Style: Cool Photos And History From The Era Of Regular Guy Stock Car Heroes!

(Photos – Dave Sanders Collection) – Stock car racing’s roots are well known. From the days of the moonshiners to the entrance of Big Bill France and his efforts to organize all of...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Builds Going On All Over The Place – Great Photos From Across The Country!

We know that there are lots of you out there that eschew Facebook as some sort of wasteful time suck. We can respect that because we understand that soaking your teeth while you play bridge with your...

Show Gallery: More Killer Photos From The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we showed you the first of two galleries that our LA correspondent Scott Liggett filed from the 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show....

Caption This Photo: Giving A Whole New Meaning To Full Left Rudder!

This photo arrived through our tip line the other day and the dude who sent it isn’t answering any emails regarding where it came from, but holy crap is it awesome. It appears that these two...

Bitchin’ Video: In Car Racing Footage And A Video Feature Of Kris Henderson’s 200+ MPH 1959 Jaguar!

Kris Henderson is one of the coolest guys we know and his 200+ capable 1959 Jaguar, powered by one of the most pissed off Chevy rat motors we’ve ever heard is one of the coolest cars we know....

Celebrity Car Death Match: Jim Rockford’s Pontiac Firebird Esprit VS The Bandit Trans Am!

Two Pontiacs, two icons of cool, and only one can live. Obviously Jim Rockford is the underdog here, but then again, Jim Rockford was the flippin’ underdog in every episode of his show and he...