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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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Car Show Coverage: Our New Favorite! Haddick’s Hot Rod and Custom Car Show 2012

Southern California is full of cool car shows, and with weather like we have they happen all year long. The Haddick’s Towing and Autobody Hot Rod and Custom Car Show is one of the good ones. We...

Car Show Gallery: The Mooneyes Open House and Car Show 2012

Mooneyes is synonymous with cool cars, racing, customs, and all things hot rodding, and has been a staple in the industry since the ’50s. This weekend they once again opened their original...

Question of the Day: Are You Doing Anything BangShifty This Weekend?

We’re smack dab in the middle of the summer and that means that we’re smack dab in the middle of “car season” for those of us not lucky enough to live in climes that are...

Someone Finally Made an RX-7 Cool…By Shoving a Jet Engine Up Its Backside (w/Video)

Mazda recently announced that they were finally putting a bullet into their rotary engine program, marking the beginning of the end for the weirdo little engines. We know that they can be made to run...

RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!

When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously...

BangShift Sponsors Kick Ass in Columbus Goodguys Autocross Competition With Video

While Chad was running his mouth at the worlds hottest Goodguys autocross this past weekend in Columbus Ohio, John Jackson from Not Stock Photography was taking killer photos and lent us a few to...

Tune In: Live Streaming Sportsman Drag Racing This Weekend – The World Footbrake Challenge!

This weekend the World Footbrake Challenge goes down at Bristol, Tennessee. Thunder Valley will have a field of nearly 400 of the deadliest, most cold blooded footbrake drag racers in the world and...

Awesome Video: An In-Depth Look at RideTech and “Why Shocks Matter”

This video from RideTech is pretty damned cool for a number of reasons. The first is that it is filmed in a killer documentary style that we really like, the second is that it is chock full of really...

eBay Find: A Bitchin’ 1949 Mack Type 45 Fire Truck That Looks Good Enough to Road Trip Home (Slowly)

Starting in the war years of the mid-1940s and right through the 1950s, if you lived in a small to mid-sized town in America you thought of a Mack Type 45 when someone mentioned the words “fire...

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Video: Depth of Speed “High Mileage”… John Jackson of Not Stock Photography

Not only does John Jackson of Not Stock Photography take killer photos of some of the baddest hot rods, customs, and cruisers around, but he also drives one himself. And while some folks would argue...

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Epic eBay Find: Wild Willie Borsch’s Fake Arm From His Revell’s Wild Man Funny Car!

This is freaking awesome. Up for sale on eBay right now is the fake arm that Wild Willie Borsch had mounted into the window of his “Revell’s Wild Man” Funny Car in the early 1970s....

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Tune In: Watch Live Nostalgia Drag Racing From Santa Pod This weekend!

Our brothers from another, uhhh, continent at EuroDragster.com will be live broadcasting live (and FREE!) from Santa Pod this weekend during the Dragstalgia event. This is the second year of the...

Check Out Our Huge Gallery From the 2012 ALMS New England Grand Prix – Exotics and Prototypes in Action!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Our main function for being at the 2012 ALMS New England Grand Prix, contested at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut last week was to observe, hang out with, and report on...

Great Video: The Profile of A Totally Unrestored and Running 1970 USAC Open Wheel Car

Holley has been cranking out some truly kick ass video content lately. We’ve been keeping up over the last couple of weeks and this one may be their best yet. In this piece, you’ll hear...