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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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SEMA 2012 Coverage: Modern and Classic Mopar Muscle In Mopar Alley and On The SEMA Show Floor

The Big Three do a pretty great job of creating a presence at SEMA and Mopar is no slouch. Once again Chrysler’s performance division has sent a fleet of bitchin’ iron along with a fleet...

SEMA 2012: Does This Photo Make My Ass Look Big?

What are your thoughts?

SEMA 2012 New Product Spotlight: Ridetech Announces iPhone App For Air Ride and All New Delrin Bushings

Earlier this week you saw our blog item about the cool new Smooth Body shocks from Ridetech that are the talk of the 2012 SEMA Show, and bolt on right in place of your stockers. The cool thing is...

SEMA 2012 Coverage: Hot Cars, Trucks, Muscle, Hot Rods, and Parts From Wednesday At SEMA 2012

As Chad and I pounded the floor of the floor at SEMA 2012 on Wednesday we blasted photos of all the cool stuff we had not seen or showed you yet. Amazingly, there is a LOT more stuff that we have not...

Chassisworks 2012 SEMA Show Camaro Products Update: 67-69 Camaro Parts Up The Wazoo!

The dudes at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks have been introducing a ton of super cool parts for First-Gen Camaros over the last few weeks in preparation for the 2012 SEMA Show, and here at the...

SEMA 2012 Coverage: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Competitor Gallery

One of the many reasons that the 2012 SEMA shows rules the school is because it serves as the staging ground for the annual Optima Street Car Invitational event which is held in Pahrump, Nevada. This...

Sad News: John Fitch, American Road Racing Legend, Inventor, and Race Track Designer Has Died At 95

John Fitch, the racer who cheated death at the 1955 24 Hours of LeMans, competed and lived through the most dangerous era of Grand Prix racing the world has ever known, was a P51 Mustang pilot with a...

SEMA 2012: GM Pulls the Wraps Off Of An All Polymer 427CI LS V8 – 100% Recyclable!

In a technological break through you will only here about on BangShift, General Motors pulled the cloak back on an engine that we had heard rumors about for years. Below you will see photos of the...

SEMA 2012 Product Spotlight: Rocket Racing Wheels Owns The Show and Releases Cool New Finish!

There are a lot of wheel companies at the 2012 SEMA show but the coolest by a long shot are the dudes and dudettes at Rocket Racing Wheels. Their hoops are literally all over the show on some of the...

Funny: We Interrupt This SEMA-Gasm To Show You A Bizarre And Hilarious Photo

(Photo by Robert Martin) – Just because SEMA 2012 is rocking and rolling doesn’t mean that the automotive world stops or that the BangShift tipsters go to sleep on the job. Case in point...

SEMA 2012 New Product Spotlight: Hamburger’s Changes Filter Relocation Forever And Trans-Dapt Is A Perfectmatch

Have you ever done an oil filter relocation only to find that your particular application has to be the most difficult ever with regards to hose routing? We have. Have you ever finished restoring...

SEMA 2012 Featurette: A 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Crew Cab Built by Legacy Power Wagon of Wyoming

There’s literally dozens of vehicles here at the 2012 SEMA show that deserve coverage on the pages of BangShift and we’re planning on getting to many of them in the coming days and weeks,...

Pontiac Trans-Am Fans Rejoice! Lingenfelter Brings You The Production LTA

Ken Lingenfelter and Mike Copeland, along with everyone at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, have been designing, wrenching, painting, and stitching like mad men and women in preparation for the...

SEMA 2012 Gallery: Cool Engines We Spotted on the SEMA Show Floor!

The core of the high performance industry and the SEMA show is horsepower. The ways we make our horsepower is as varied and different as the colors we all choose to paint our stuff. The SEMA show is...