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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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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Finish Line – Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush (1980)

Man, you all have Johnny Hunkins of Popular Hot Rodding to thank for this one! I was hanging out with him at the Goodguys Nashville show one night and of course the topic came to music. Johnny is a...

ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday

That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing....

Postponed: PowerShift LIVE Will Be TONIGHT This Week! 6PM Pacific 9PM Eastern

With the last minute request to broadcast LIVE from the ADRL Race in Cordova this weekend, and Brian’s travel to Nashville, he and I will both be on planes or in airports during the normal...

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....