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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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Photo Coverage: More PSCA Record Breaker Nationals, Including Great Pit Shots

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our second...

Video: Watch A 1962 Ford Truck With A Twin Turbo Y-Block Motor Make 606hp At The Tire And More Than 700 lb/ft Of Torque!

Holy smokes! Who the hell needs a diesel when you can strap a couple of turbos on built, e85 fed 292 Y-Block Ford mill and make insane power and torque. Wrap this monster package up with the body and...

FUBAR Photos: The Most Violently Grenaded Powerglide Transmission Ever

(Photos by Ron Pomerleau) – My transmission wrecking exploits in project Buford T Justice (update coming later today on that car) are like butterfly kisses as compared to what my pal and New...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Race Track Or Location Do You Most Want To Make A Lap Of?

Since the NHRA Winternationals are under way we’re back to thinking about racing and our upcoming adventures for the 2013 season. Those adventures will take us to drag strips, road courses, mud...

AutoTrader Find: Is This The World’s Cleanest 4-Speed 1980 Malibu? And Is It Worth $20,000?

When we located this amazingly clean 1980 4-speed Chevy Malibu on Craigslist the other day the first thing we did was to contact resident G-body dorkenheimer Dave Nutting and perform a photo analysis...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Gotta New Car – Big Boy Groves (1955)

I am a 32 (soon to be 33) year old Irish guy from Boston but I really love old R&B music and early rock and roll. This song combines all that great sound with awesome lyrics, some automotive...

No PowerShift Tonight, Folks — We’ll Be Back Next Week

It is Thursday night and normally we’re on the air with our weekly live, rollicking show called PowerShift. This week due to an unforseen family- related issue (no neither of our wives ditched...

Fun With Numbers: American Powertrain’s Speed Analyzer Let’s You Tailor Your Transmission Choice

There are lots of calculators on the internet for car stuff. You can figure you compression ratio, displacements, extrapolate horsepower from drag strip time slips, and even determine the payments on...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s The Coolest Four Door Car?

This question comes right out of a discussion going on in our forum section right now among the members who are debating the merits of hot rodding and modifying four door cars. Obviously you know...

Bitchin’ Video: A Mash Up Of Good Tunes, Tommy Ivo, Vintage Hot Rod, Drag Race, and Dry Lakes Footage From Levi’s Jeans

We were kind of shocked to see that Levi’s jeans had made this totally awesome video highlighting old hot rodding, drag racing, and dry lakes footage that uses voice overs from the likes of...

Craigslist Find: A Shopping Cart Kart

File this under, “Stuff we want to piss off the neighborhood with” although we certainly have enough junk that already does it, this would be pefect for barnstorming the sidewalks and...

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Gallery: The Brock Yates Cannonball Run Exhibition At The Saratoga Auto Museum

(Photo by Joe Grippo) – Brock Yates is a guy we openly idolize here at BangShift. He’s one of the most important and influential automotive journalists ever and his list of books,...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Green Onions – Booker T and the MG’s (1962)

If we were creating the “soundtrack of our lives” we’d have this song playing in the background every time we walking into a room. The tune may not be a dedicated “car...

Video: The Places They Raced – Episode One – Fantastic Racing History From California

A week or two ago we told you about an upcoming documentary series based on the great Where They Raced books by Harold Osmer. We’re happy to report that the first episode of the series has been...