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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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Watch Top Fuel Pilot TJ Zizzo Drive The Insano Hypermax Diesel Dragster To Its First 200mph Lap!

TJ Zizzo is a well known and well respected NHRA Top Fuel racer from the greater Chicago area. The guys at Hypermax Engineering, a business that is based around high performance diesel engines are...

eBay Find: A Very Rare K-Code, 4-Speed 1965 Ford Fairlane With Dealer Installed Tri-Power!

We’re a fickle bunch, car people. On the one hand we often fawn over rare, limited production cars, or options, or engines, or dealer installed equipment. Typically taking a car and adding a...

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Cruise Gallery: The Wings-To-Go Cruise Night – Burlington, North Carolina

(Photos by Dennis White) – Our newest addition to the BangShift contributor army is North Carolina’s Dennis White. This is the second cruise night gallery Dennis has sent over to us and...

Drag Gallery: Action From The Strip At The Mickey Thompson Street Machine Shootout – Ozark Raceway Park

(Photos by Cory McMahon) – Missourri’s Ozark Raceway Park is a cool facility that hosts a number of shootout events over the course of the season. The track is an older facility and they...

Beautiful Bonneville Video: James Hoegh Talks About Riding the Confederate X132 Combat On The Salt – Beyond Awesome

As gearheads, we’re all a little weird. We see the world in a different way than the average person on the street. There’s a reason that the tears flow like water at the awards ceremony...

Car Show Gallery: Super Run 2012 – Henderson, Nevada – Cool Cruise and Killer Cars!

(Photos by Colin Johnson) – BangShifter Colin Johnson recently attended a really neat event in Nevada called the “Super Run”. This yearly event is a four day affair held in...

Incredible Photos From Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout Courtesy Of Zane McNary

Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout has been going on since 2006 when Mike and Mikey Cook decided that there needed to be an event on the salt that catered to the guys that wanted to go really...

Video: Watch the Preview For the Upcoming Optima Faceoff TV Mini-Series on SPEED

With the onset of fall and the approach of the SEMA show, we’re also getting ready to start looking forward to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational which is held each year in Pahrump,...

Race Gallery: ChumpCar Action Photos From Shelton, Washington – 100% BS Approved Low Buck Fun!

(Photos by D.V. Klenak) – If you have not heard of the ChumpCar World Series, you must be living under a rock. The low buck, high fun, racing series has been around for years and they run races...

BangShift Exclusive: Larson & Lutz Will Headline Street Car Shootout At NMCA Houston

We’ve just got news that Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz will be headlining an eight-car field of Drag Week style Unlimited street cars running at the Houston NMCA Event November 9-11 . The...

Cruise-In Photos: Northern Tools Burlington North Carolina Cruise-In

BangShift’s newest contributor Dennis White was back at it again this weekend and got us more photos from the killer cruise scene in Burlington, NC. If we didn’t know better we’d...

Video: Comp Cams Explains Camshaft Technology

Comp Cams has got some great new videos up that explain some of the often misunderstood concepts behind camshaft technology. In this video “Comp Cams Technology Explained: Cam Timing”...

Chrysler Shaking Down Dealers For $25,000 In Order To Sell Viper – Exclusivity Is Expensive!

The word surrounding the upcoming 2013 Viper has been “exclusive”. Chrysler is trying to move the car upmarket in image from it’s hairy, Cobra like roots and will do so in several...

Video: More Than Five Minutes of Fires, Crashes, and Explosions From Aussie Burnout Contests!

Showing this video to a person not familiar with the level of insanity that pervades Aussie burnout contests would probably put them into a state of shock. After all, how often do you see a car smoke...