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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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MSD DYNAFORCE Alternators: A Race Alternator That Works

I’ve always found it incredibly annoying to race with someone that doesn’t have an alternator on their race car. Even worse is the guy that has one but it is so poorly installed it might...

Sideways, with Rodney Prouty: An Average Hot Rodders Adventures In Car Building And Racing

The first Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, got great feedback and Rodney is really cranking on these things because we already have another in the can for next week. Read on. As always with Rodney,...

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Antron Brown 2013 Winternationals Crash Video – Here It Is

Of all the crazy stuff that happened during the 2013 NHRA Winternationals, Antron Brown’s scary high speed wreck was by far the worst. As you’ll see in the video below Brown’s...

Question of the Day: Who Is the Most Volatile Personality in Racing History?

All disciplines of racing are stressful and potentially dangerous. There’s a certain type of person that finds racing cars to be an appealing exercise and those people don’t tend to be...

Buford T Justice Update: A Very Frustrating Day On The Dyno And How We’re Planning To Fix It

So first, I’ll lead with an apology. This update was supposed to run last week but a blizzard and a bunch of other stuff jumped up and caused the delay. With the amount of email, text, forum,...

Gallery: The Rumble Cats Hot Rod Club – Rally In The Alley 2013 – Spring, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Texas scene is rolling and our man Charles Wickam is on the scene bringing us great photos as the glaciers close in around BS eastern world hq. Charles hit the...

Dead Drag Strip File: A Visit To The Sleeping Remains Of Seneca Dragstrip – Northern Illinois First Strip!

(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Recently, Bob Chiluk and I made the trek out to Seneca, Illinois to visit the remains of Seneca Dragstrip. Never heard of it? Not many people have, it was...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – (1971)

A bunch of different bands and artists have covered the song Hot Rod Lincoln over the year but my all time favorite is the version of the tune by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen that was...

Blow It Up Sunday: Jack Beckman’s Crazy NHRA Fuel Funny Car Explosion At Pomona

As the NHRA season opener Winternationals is underway today in Pomona, we thought it would be appropriate to show our pal Jack Beckman’s 2012 Pomona explosion that happened mere months ago at...

Blow It Up Sunday: A Chevy Van Tests The Rev Limiter… And The Connecting Rods. Which One Fails First?

We are firm believers in testing all the available options on rental cars, new cars, etc. This of course means the rev limiter as well. And various manufacturers have very different rev limiters that...

Blow It Up Sunday: Watch This Turbo Motor Explode Spectacularly On The Dyno

For this Sunday we decided it was going to be all about exposions. Engines blowing up, cars blowing up, rods and pistons getting away from crankshafts, etc. It’s awesome. Watch in this video as...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: William Shatner Jumps His Dodge St. Regis While Chasing A ’73 Plymouth As TJ Hooker

Hear that noise? That’s Chad whimpering because I am bringing Shatner to the party and he is sky boxing his Dodge St. Regis police car a couple of times while in hot pursuit of a bad guy in a...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: Fred Dryer And His Bitchin’ ’77 Dodge Monaco Chase The Bad Guys

Know why Chad is boned for whatever weiner stuff he is going to post tomorrow? Because I have freaking Lee Majors and Fred Dryer as my lead off acts. Dryer played 12 seasons in the NFL (Chad,...

BangShift Saturday Movie Day: Lee Majors Kicks Ass In An Electric Wheelchair And The Iconic Fall Guy Truck

Since we had such a great response to the weekend content we ran before the live broadcast of the PSCA Ice Breaker Nationals, we’re going to make a habit of it. I’m clearly going to own...