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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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Powermaster Performance Sponsors The Chattanooga Cruise-In – April 6,2013 – Looks Like A Blast! Be There!

If you are in the greater Chattanooga, Tennessee area on April 6, 2012 and you are not at the Chattanooga Cruise-In, you officially fail. The event is put on right in downtown Chattanooga with Coker...

Bitchin’ Rods Gallery: The St Patty’s Day Bash At Murray Kustom Rods – Ft. Worth, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles worked his ass off during the weekend he spend at the Goodguys show. Between harassing Chad, shooting a couple of upcoming feature cars, making autocross...

Videos Of Win: A Twin Turbo Olds 455 Cutlass Sleeper Runs 10s – Plus A Crafty Home Made Solution To Modifying Pistons At Home For Full Floating Wrist Pins!

You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like...

Drag Action Gallery: Fast Door Slammers At Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip! Big Tire and Small Tire Fun!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift contributor Tommy Lee Byrd hit it hard this weekend and covered a cool Heads Up race at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip in Ringgold, Georgia. The...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Fast Car – Hanoi Rocks (1986)

We’ve got a bunch of readers that have suggested Hanoi Rocks tunes to us for use in the BS Daily Tune up, so today we’re finally going to highlight one. The tune is called Fast Car and it...

MSD’s Atomic EFI LS System Wins Innovation Award At The 2013 Hot Rod And Restoration Trade Show

The news is certainly out about MSD’s cool Atomic LS EFI system that removed lots of headaches and wiring from the job of swapping an LS engine into whatever application you can dream up. Since...

Aussie Road Trip Gallery: The Roadside Finds On A Long Trip Across Oz

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – We’ve been showing you cool photos from the Top Gear Festival in Australia recently and those photos came from Darryl Danies who lives down there. Darryl went...

Event Coverage: Trucks, Rat Rods, Traditionals, and Street Rods From Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals

Once again Charles Wickam delivered. Great photos, of great trucks and street rods, for you to enjoy. Last weekend’s Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals were HUGE, and the stuff that was there...

Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: Being The Underdog May Be A Handicap, But Rodney Doesn’t Show It

Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, shows the trials and tribulations of a regular working stiff who built his car on his budget, drives it every day, and races it as often as he can. Oh and did I mention...

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Throwback Video: Chad Taunts Death Shooting Killer Drift Footage With Team Scion And Death Runs Away Scared

Way back in 2009 I was asked by John Naderi of Streefire to come out and shoot some video at Irwindale for a Scion Drift Team Test session. Turns out they were giving rides to some Rockstar Energy...

Event Coverage: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Customs, and More From Goodguys Lonestar Nationals

Thanks to our man on the street, Charles Wickam, we have great photos for you from the Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth Texas. Charles ran his ass off snapping...

eBay Find: A Chopped And Hemi Powered 1933 Dodge Hot Rod That Is Period Perfection

Lots of times we find weirdo stuff on eBay and make fun of it, but today that is absolutely not the case. This 1933 Dodge hot rod is so good in so many ways it makes us tear up with joy. The body was...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Heart – John Fogerty (1997)

John Fogerty rose to fame as the front man of the legendary band Creedence Clearwater Revival and has gone on to have a great solo career. There was all kinds of crazy legal stuff that went on...

Project Buford T Justice Update: Where Has Our 9C1 Caprice Been Hiding?

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – So it has been a while since you’ve seen anything with respect to our much beloved project Buford T Justice Caprice. What the Hell, right? We can assure you...