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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 RACE DAY – TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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FREE LIVESTREAM IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Series: The “Show Me” Shootout – Qualifying from Lake Lucas Indiana

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend is the second race of the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Lucas in Indiana. If you like big power, and big speed, on the water then you want...

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The Inaugural Fendt High Stakes Pulling Event Kicks Off This Weekend! Night 1 and 2 – Dragway 42

Truck and Tractor pulling, like most racing formats, have advanced dramatically in the last few years and that has made the competition at events even closer and closer. This weekend the first, of...

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FREE DRAG RACING DOWN UNDER: The Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway Australia Right Here!

The Aussies are as ate up with drag racing as we are, and this weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway prove it. This is a great race track with great crowds and great...

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IHRA Pro Mod Mania Invades Milan Michigan’s Darana Dragway! Huge Purse, Killer Pro Mod and Sportsman Action!

This weekend the International Hot Rod Association visits Milan Michigan for Pro Mod Mania at Darana Dragway which features an insane purse and tons of great racing action. With a total purse of...

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SEMA 2012 Gallery: Friday Morning Gallery of Cars, Trucks, and Killer Shop Equipment From SEMA 2012

That’s right kids, we’re still blasting photos and pounding the pavement for news and information here at SEMA 2012. We’ll be walking the floors and gathering even more cool stuff...

SEMA Show 2012 Featurette: The Thunder Taker 1960 Cadillac Custom Hearse by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods

It is 8,000lbs of subtle metal work, flawless paint, a passenger compartment that’ll seat a football team with room to set up a train set inside, one of the largest sun roofs installed on any...

SEMA 2012: Does My Nose Look Big? 2013 Ford Fusion Nascar Schnoz

Should I be visiting a plastic surgeon? Or will the high banks of Daytona take care of this for me?

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 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...