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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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Buford T Justice Update: We Install A First Gen Chevelle Flowmaster Kit On Our 9C1 Caprice!

Well I celebrated Buford’s one year anniversary in fine style last week by finally getting back to wrenching on the car. The weather has broken, Spring is here, and I found both of my kids when...

eBay Find: A 1969 COPO Camaro With Dealer Installed L88 Power, Ultra Rare Options, Perfect Paint, And A Big Price Tag

This could be the single coolest car for sale on eBay right now! When we first stumbled upon the ad that had the words Camaro and L88 in the title we assumed it was a project someone built as a clone...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Bad Motor Scooter – Montrose (1973)

Ronnie Montrose and Sammy Hagar were the two most well known parts of the first version of the band Montrose that emerged in the early 1970s and became stadium hard rock gods by the time the decade...

Show Gallery: The 2013 Space City Cruisers Car And Bike Show – League City, Texas

(Photos by Jerrica Burke) – The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Wickam house! Charles was stuck at the office last Saturday so his daughter Jerrica scooped up the camera and...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Multiple Turbos or One Big Blower?

We just ran that Caption This Photo Blog Item that featured the giant turbo off of some cargo ship or something, and that made us think. We all know that the dude with a 14-71 blower is clearly...

Caption This Photo: The Guys At AutoMeter Showed Us The Biggest Turbo We’ve Ever Seen

All you dudes out there who think you are king crap with your twin 91mm turbos can suck it. We found this amazingly huge turbo on Auto Meter’s Facebook page and are in love. We’re pretty...

BangShift Exclusive: Never Before Published Photos Of The Bill Thomas FIA Fast Back Novas!

(Photos from the Steve Magnante archive) – Our recent feature of Kelvin Cannon’s home-built replica of an ultra rare Bill Thomas “fastback” Nova had lots of people talking and...

Show Gallery: The 2013 Boston World Of Wheels – Some Of New England’s Finest Iron!

We were so overrun with great galleries from all over the country that I didn’t have a chance to run these photos from the 2013 Boston World of Wheels until now. This year, the show was held in...

New England’s Newest Pro Mod Is Going To Be A Tim McAmis Lightweight Bad Ass!

Very few classes in drag racing have had the kind of incredible groundswell of development and performance gains as Pro Mod has had over the last 10 years. From the technology in the suspension and...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Slick Black Cadillac” Quiet Riot 1979

With hits like “Metal Health”, aka “Bang Your Head”, and “Cum On Feel The Noize”, Quiet Riot became on of the iconic metal bands of the ’80s. In fact,...

John Deere Announces Intent To Take “World’s Fastest Lawnmower” Title: Lohnes Will Drive

For the past week, we have been in talks with John Deere CEO Sam Allen, and VP of Corporate Strategy and Business Development David Larson, who have decided that John Deere is not going to allow...

“That Guy” Named Grand Marshall of Local Car Show

“That guy”, the annoying know-nothing who claims to know it all about cars has been named the grand marshall of a local car show. The honor was not lost on “that guy” and he...

Pushrods Sue Ford Motor Company for Discrimination

DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union will announce today that they have taken up the cause of pushrods who wish to sue the Ford Motor Company for discrimination. The pushrods believe...

Grandson of 100mpg Carb Inventor Creates 1000mpg Fuel Injection, Disappears, Foul Play Suspected

The grandson of the man credited for inventing the “100mpg carb” decades ago, has disappeared after unveiling a revolutionary fuel injection system that claimed to allow modern cars to...