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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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Cool Video: A Chronicle of the Amazing Lutz/Larson Drag Week 2012 Battle!

There were many, many highlights from Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 but the epic prize fight between Jeff Lutz and Larry Larson was certainly the one that the most eyeballs were focused on. During...

Steve Matusek Wins Pro Mod at the Throwdown at T-Town In The Aeromotive Turbo Mustang!

We wanted to send a quick note of congratulations to Steve Matusek, Chuck Samuel, Larry Larson, and the rest of the crew at Aeromotive for their big win at the 2012 Throwdown at T-Town. Steve wheeled...

Craigslist Find: An Absolute Train Wreck Of A Third Gen Camaro

The third-gen Camaro is still in that historical hot rodding limbo area where people bag on them regularly. For a while, it was late second gen cars that got all that hate, but people seem to dig...

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Video: Watch Roger Sterling’s Massive Heavy Street Wreck At the Shakedown at E-Town

There was lots of racing around the country this weekend, especially on the drag front. There was the Throwdown at T-Town where we live broadcasted, there was the Dutch Classic in Pennsylvania, and...

Roadside Find: A Subaru Dually — You Read That Correctly, A Subaru Dually!

BangShift reader Erik Andersson sent us what could be the weirdest, funniest, most ingenious, and just flat out most quizzical roadside find in the history of this website. Erik was at work, making a...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – The Answer To The Last Question and A New Challenge!

Last week I told you about my stop by Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts and challenged you, the vast readership of BangShift to identify an interesting block and cylinder head that were...

Gallery: Spooktacular Cruise’n Classic Car Show – Whitman, MA

One of the local shows I like to hit with the kids each year is the Spooktacular Cruise’n Classic Car Show which is held in the small burg of Whitman, Massachusetts each fall. The kids love it...

Show Gallery: AACA Eastern Division National Fall Meet Hershey, Pennsylvania

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – In the Northeastern quadrant of the country at this time of the year, if you mention the word “Hershey” in a crowd of car guys, the immediate retort will...

SUNDAY! FREE Live Streaming Video of TheThrowdown in T-Town – Bad Ass Doorslammers!

SATURDAY’S ACTION HAS BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO RAIN, BUT WE WILL BE LIVE AGAIN SUNDAY MORNING AT 10AM. Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5, and Outlaw Doorslammers will be running first thing for their final...

Norm Grabowski, Legendary Hot Rodder and Creator of the T-Bucket Has Died

Norm Grabowski, the man who literally invented the T-Bucket with his famous “Kookie Kar” has passed away. Grabowski’s creation launched hundreds of thousands of copies and even...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE IHRA WORLD FINALS LIVE AND FREE FROM MEMPHIS!

Mark Walter, our pal and fellow live streaming master is at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway. Mark is there streaming the race live and in living color....

Hilarious Video: Kid Fails Driving Test Five Times in One Day

Yes, this video is old and has been viewed nearly two million times, but we had to watch it three times just to hear everything because we were laughing so hard. This is a hidden camera deal and the...

New Product: American Powertrain’s Hydramax Full Hydraulic Clutch Conversion For Fox Bodies

If you’ve got a stick shift Fox-bodied Mustang, a couple things are inevitable. The first is that you’ll probably destroy a T5 at some point in your life and the second is that...

Video: A Wacky Chevy Truck Ad From 1972 – Watch the Dummy!

New car television commercials suck universally. There’s the once-every-couple-year gem like Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” Charger ad, but even that one pales in...