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

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 – Saturday

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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

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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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Inline Answer and the Toughest Challenge Yet!

Yersterday’s inline six was correctly guessed as a GM 4200 series engine. The 4.2L mill was installed in a variety of cars and trucks like the Trailblazer, Envoy, Buick Rainier and other GM...

Bonus Junkyard Gallery: Even More Coolness from Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, NJ

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday, we brought you the first of two galleries from within the confines of Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, NJ. Joe Grippo snuck off into the wilderness...

Awesome Find: A Wild 1931 Ford Designed As A Snow Fighting Montana Mail Delivery Vehicle – Grandfather of the TRAR!

BangShift reader Bill Gantner tipped us off to this magnificent creation that he first spotted on BringATrailer.com, which is a site you should also be reading every day. The BAT boys found this...

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Event Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – Gallery Two – More Great Hot Rods, Muscle, and Unexpected Treasures!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the first gallery from Fleming’s Pumpkin Run gearhead gathering version 2012. Grippo shot so many great photos of so much great stuff we...

Video: A Tire Shredding, Donut Cutting, Turbo Tractor Defies Physics and Good Sense!

This video is absolutely, 100% BangShift approved! What you are going to see below is a guy driving a modified farm tractor powered by a turbobcharged Volvo engine. Built somewhere over in...

Barn Find Stash! We “Investigate” A Rumor And Find Super Cool Stuff We Want. Detective Work Starts Now.

After a buddy of ours told us that there was a barn full of “Fairlanes, and Cadillacs, and a Vette, and all kinds of stuff”, we just had to check it out since we were somewhat close. Of...

Event Photos: Goodguys Autumn Get-Together in Pleasanton, The Home Of Goodguys

While announcing the autocross at the 23rd Goodguys Autumn Get-Together in Pleasanton, we grabbed some photos for you to enjoy. Hot rods, street rods, pro touring Camaros, Pro Street, and more were...

Junkyard Gallery: Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, New Jersey – Lots Of Neat Rusting Stuff!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Earlier today we showed you a great gallery from the famed, and yearly Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, New Jersey. In that gallery we showed you...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Last Week’s Answer And Today’s Inliner Challenge!

Last Friday we threw a photo out for the rabid BangShift readership to identify. We may as well have thrown some rare steaks into the lion pen at the zoo. You all knocked the snot out of that one and...

Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – One of the East Coast’s Coolest Gearhead Gatherings!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Harry Fleming is a South Jersey legend and every year in early November he and his friends put on what is quietly becoming one the best attended, unique car...

Jeff Lutz Goes 6.909/215-MPH In His 1957 Chevy at NMCA Houston, Texas Event On Saturday

(Photo by Justin Oney) – Just a quick note of congratulations this Sunday to Jeff Lutz and his son Jeffrey on their titanic 6.90/215-mph lap during the NMCA Houston event this weekend. That was...

Evan Knoll Arrested On Bond Violation Ahead Of Sentencing In Federal Fraud Case – Firearms and Intimidation Involved

Evan Knoll, the one time “king” of drag racing and the man who plead guilty to a multitude of federal tax-fraud charges was arrested on November 8, 2012 for violation the conditions of...

eBay Find: A Certified Bill Thomas Cheetah Continuation Car – Looks Perfect!

The Cheetah was a Chevrolet supported and Bill Thomas spearheaded effort to build a car that could take on the mighty Shelby Cobras that were making a huge impact on the international road racing...

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Fantastic Video: Great Action, Jumps, Power Wheelstands, and Fun In Wild Machines At The Silver Lake Sand Dunes!

The Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan are a mecca to fans of sand rails, big trucks, quads, dirt bikes, and anything else that can sling sand and propel its occupants to insane speeds. This video by...