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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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Ebay Find: A Ridetech Equipped, Laid Out, Bad Ass, ’49 Chevy Pickup, We Want Bad

You know how much we love stuff that sits flat out on the ground. Which is one of the many reasons we love the gang at Ridetech and their trick Air Ride systems. Well today’s Ebay Find is an...

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Video: A Fantastic Look At US 131 Dragway Through The Years From The Early 1960s To Today – Amazing Footage and Photos!

Thanks to pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian we were tipped off to one of the most comprehensive and cool vintage drag racing videos we’ve ever seen on the interwebs. This film starts with...

Auto Meter Gauges Joins BangShift.com! Welcome Our Newest Sponsor, And Build Your Own Custom Gauges Now!

Brian and I, on behalf of all BangShifters out there, as well as the rest of the BangShift.com family of sponsors, are proud to welcome Auto Meter to the fold! You can’t call yourself a hot...

Cruise-In Photos: Busy B’s Bakery In Fort Worth Texas. Where Cinnamon Rolls and Horsepower Rule!

Lately all we’ve heard is Rides and Latte’s is the biggest show ever! There were like 8 jillion cars! And if it wasn’t for the fact that hot rods and muscle cars are taking over...

Buford T Justice Update: Headers, Cheap LS Technology, New Valvetrain Parts, More Compression, Fun!

Our weekly Buford updates continue! When last we left you, Dana Hard and Jon Wall at Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts had just finished working on the 083 cylinder heads for the...

Video: Ride Shotgun For A Lap In The Wild Slightly Disturbed Golf Kart Wheelstander!

We’re easily amused here at BangShift and by easily amused we mean totally in love with unique homebuilt stuff that a guy dreamed up after a couple beers and turned into reality. Such is our...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: 455 SD – The Hellacopters (1998)

Swedish garage rock band The Hellacopters formed up in 1994 and they jammed their awesome lo-fi style all the way through 2008 before they busted up and decided to do other stuff. Chances are you...

STOLEN CAR ALERT: 1956 Chevy Nomad Stolen From Sheraton At Grand National Roadster Show

SPREAD THE WORD!!! FIND THIS CAR!!!  Danny Ozcodi’s 1956 Chevrolet Nomad was stolen from the Sheraton parking lot, near the Grand National Roadster Show, early Sunday morning January 27th....

BREAKING NEWS: IHRA 100% Acquired By PBIR and Memphis International Raceway Ownership Group!

In what had to be the best kept secret in drag racing the ownership group of Palm Beach International Raceway and Memphis International Raceway have acquired the International Hot Rod Association and...

Video: The Most Insane And Hilarious Russian Dash Cam Footage We Have Ever Seen

Thanks to BangShift tipster Ray Johnson we have the greatest Russian dash cam video ever. It features angry Russians, bad driving, and intentional malicious damage to another car. This thing is...

PHOTO COVERAGE: Cars, Parts, and More From The Long Beach Swap Meet

The Long Beach Swap Meet is my favorite. I know that Pomona is bigger, but if you want deals, and don’t want to weed through toys and crap, then the Long Beach Swap Meet is the place to go....

Nothin’ But Race Cars: From The Grand National Roadster Show Special Displays

The Grand National Roadster Show is all about glitz and glamor and cars that, in some cases, are too pretty to drive. But thanks to Robert Rey of Los Angeles who did all the leg work to gather this...

Bonus Grand National Roadster Show Gallery: Customs, Trucks, Lowriders, and More Outside The Halls

Even though we had crappy weather here in Southern California for this past weekend’s Grand National Roadster Show, it was still THE place to be. And despite the rain a lot of folks still drove...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Have You Ever Had A Shop Disaster? Are You Prepared In Case Something Happens?

Yesterday’s coverage of the explosion and destruction at Bill Kuhlmann’s race shop got me to thinking about shop safety and preparedness. I work on my junk outside for better or for...