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Offshore Powerboat Racing Livestream: The IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series Thunder On Cocoa Beach – Sunday

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series 2026 season is in Cocoa Beach today, and features big speed from giant offshore boats and more. You can watch all the Day 2 action...

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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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Sunday $15,000

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

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 – Sunday

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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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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VIDEO: Blown Altered Catches Flight At March Meet 2013. No Really It Gets All 4 Off At The Hit!

When this happened right before our eyes during our LIVE broadcast of the 2013 March Meet at Famoso’s famed Auto Club Famoso Raceway, we couldn’t believe our eyes. It’s not that we...

Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: I Knew What I Wanted Before I Knew What I Wanted…

In this edition of Sideways, Rodney addresses the fact that he knew what he wanted out of his hot rod even before there was a name for it. Just like all of us, he built a car in his mind based on...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: How Important Is Paint To You?

After seeing a lot of cool cars with fantastic paint in the Detroit Autorama gallery earlier today and then the little mini-feature on the 1954 Chevy we say at Famoso, today has been filled with...

Mini-Feature: The Wildest Paint Job We’ve Ever Seen On A Car That Actually Gets Driven

While walking through the grove at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield last Friday during  the rain, BangShifter Randal Burns and I spotted the most amazingly painted 1954 Chevy I have ever seen…and...

Detroit Autorama 2013 – More BangShift Approved Iron From The Autorama!

(Photos by Justin Oney) – So far we’ve showed you galleries from the 2013 Detroit Autorama submitted by BS lens slingers Ken Cox and Dom Damato and now it’s Justin Oney’s time...

Detroit Autorama 2013 – 100% BangShift Approved Cars, Trucks, Funny Cars, and Hot Rods Gallery!

(Photos by Dom Damato- DRD Photos) – We told you that we were going to bring you Detroit Autorama coverage from a bunch of BangShift contributors, so here’s our second collection of...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Set Out For Alaska Again In The Ranchero!

Our favorite masters of masochism are at it again! Freiburger and Finnegan have loaded up their “Raunchero” and made tracks for the great white north again. As you may remember, the two...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Event Are You Most Looking Forward To Attending This Year?

After a great weekend of action at the 2013 March Meet, one of the things I was most excited to do is in the books. It’ll be a busy year for us here at BS with event season really starting to...

Power Gallery: Injected Engineering Dyno Day – Hot Cars And HUGE Horsepower!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It’s time to get back in the swing of things, as the car show and drag racing season gets started. Injected Engineering, a performance shop in Kennesaw,...

Rocket Racing Wheels Releases New Catalog – Bitchin’ Wheels and Photography Inside!

Our pals over at Rocket Racing Wheels released their new catalog the day before we left for the March Meet, which was perfect timing for us because we then went on to see dozens of hot rods, customs,...

Wreckage Videos: Some Flaming Wall Bangers From ADRL Rockingham – Major League Impacts!

While we were at the March Meet, some drag racing history was being made down in Rockingham, North Carolina. This was the first race of the new Kenny Nowling era of ADRL drag racing. By all accounts...

2013 Detroit Autorama – Load In Day Gallery

(Photos by Ken Cox) – While we were out in California at the March Meet Ken Cox (and a couple of our other photo contributors, as you’ll see!) were in Detroit for the famed...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hey Little Cobra – The Rip Chords (1963)

After five days at the super famous Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California both Chad and I are back at our respective homes now and missing the smell of  nitro! We were in the thick of it at the...

Wild March Meet Photo Sequence – An Altered Launches Itself Completely Airborne!

One of the wildest runs at the 2013 March Meet came during Sunday eliminations and it involved the altered below. The blown, alcohol burning big block Chevy makes some big power and when all of that...