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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

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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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana 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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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Gearhead Plans For This Weekend?

Outside of some places in the midwest, it is automotive fun time season in the rest of the country. Have you gotten your junk in gear yet? We’ve been hitting cruise nights, the drag strip, and...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “This Car Of Mine” by The Beach Boys 1964

Released on the March 1964 Album “Shut Down” Volume 2, “This Car of Mine” isn’t the go to car song from the Beach Boys, but the truth is it’s probably as true a...

Video: Watch A Worked Up Duramax Get Pushed To And Then Straight Past The Breaking Point On The Dyno!

Next week, I’ll be in Denver, Colorado for the Diesel Power Challenge. That contest pits 10 of the toughest diesel trucks in America against one another in a variety of challenges and events....

Race Gallery: The Mitty 2013 – America’s Coolest Vintage Car Race – IMSA, Can Am, ETC – Killer Cars!

(Photos by Craig Sutherland) – Yesterday we ran the great video of Jim Pace making hot laps in Sebring with a vintage Can Am car. Today, Jim’s right hand man Craig Sutherland is sharing a...

No PowerShift Tonight – Chad’s Been Thrown Into A Mexican Prison

I gave the guy one simple job to do on vacation, well two actually. Job numero uno was to keep himself from getting thrown into a Mexican prison. Job number two was to smuggle a massive quantity of...

Build Gallery: A 1965 Mustang That Combines New And Old School Elements With Great Parts From Rick’s Tanks, FAST, And More!

One of the toughest things to do when building a car is to combine old school elements and current technology/styling together. This  Mustang that’s going together at Tube Chassis Designz...

Video Of BangShift Approved Zen: Watch And Listen To A Blown Hemi Powered Volvo Amazon Fire Up!

If you don’t check out Speed Hunters either on their site or their FB page, you are cheating yourself. Those guys do some killer work and profile bad ass cars from all over the world. This...

Celebrity Car Death Match: Bigfoot 1 From Take This Job And Shove It VS The Wild ’67 Chevy From Fast And Furious 4

Today’s death match is all about trucks. We have two very different competitors here in the ring of doom. There’s the giant Bigfoot and the slammed 1967 Chevy from The Fast and the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Is On Your “List” That Nobody Would Expect?

We’ve all got a list. You know, the list of cars, trucks, boats, or motorcycles that we ultimately want to own. It’s the list that would get a lot of check marks on it if I won Powerball....

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” by Primus 1991

“Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” is probably one of my favorite Primus songs because it has just enough goofy fun to it that you won’t turn it off. The single was released in 1991 on...

Craigslist Find: A 1965 Chevy Suburban Limo Built By Stageway In the 1960s – Longest Suburban In World History

If Chad and I were ever going to start a limo service, buying this truck and rehabbing it would be on the top of the “list of stuff to do”. Hell, if I had any extra money, buying this...

Swap Meet Gallery: The Always Huge Spring Carlisle Swap Meet! Cars, Trucks, Vans, Parts Galore!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The annual spring-time right of passage, Spring Carlisle! Packed house this year for Friday of the multi-day swap, lots of folks looking for that gem among...

Auto Meter Releases New GT Series Gauges – Great Look For Lots Of Applications!

Auto Meter is constantly working at bringing out new cool products for gearheads. The instrumentation business is pretty interesting in that they have to serve two “masters” if you will....

Crazy Swedish Videos! A Pair Of Formula Off Road Trucks Leap To The Top Of A Near Sheer Cliff And Come Up Short – Unfortunate Results!

In racing, no driver ever wants to come up short. This is especially true in Swedish Formula Off Road competition and these two videos below explain why. See, if you come up short in Formula Off Road...