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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Wednesday 64 Car Shootout

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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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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Free Drag Racing Livestream: Wednesday Testing from the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Nationals at Darana Raceway in Hebron Ohio

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The first two events of the year have been awesome, and this weekend is going to be race #3 from Darana Raceway...

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Chassis, Suspension And Rocker Work On The Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication Swedish Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks...

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Rio Heat Show: John Jackson Heads South for the Loudest Show in the Rio Grande Valley! Plus BBQ Joint Visits!

John Jackson is back at it, this time in our home state of Texas as he visits the Rio Grande Valley for the Rio Heat Show. And not only did he capture awesome cars and custom trucks, but also made a...

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eBay Find: An Entire Collection of Dukes of Hazzard Replica Vehicles – Buy ‘Em All!

We normally limit ourselves to one eBay find per week, but this collection of replica vehicles from the Dukes of Hazzard is too good not to share. Outside of the typical General Lee, there’s...

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Video: Dodge to Leave NASCAR At Close Of 2012 Season – Move Largely Symbolic But Speaks To Larger NASCAR Issues

While Dodge’s announcement that it is leaving NASCAR at the end of 2012 may not have major reverberations on the track because they only have one organization left actually running their cars,...

Watch A Miata Take Out A Third Gen Firebird During Last Weekend’s Spectator Drags At Seekonk Speedway

Last week we gave you a video bonanza filled with random videos of crashes during “spectator drags” at small circle tracks. Well, “spectator drags” are the internet’s...

eBay Find: The Coolest And Most Weirdly Factory Optioned 1974 Grand Am Ever – 400/4-Speed/4-Door?!

We can’t take credit for finding this one. That goes to Todd Ryden, our pal at In Gear Media. Todd shot us a note when he saw this ad and we fell into the same spell he did while looking at...

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Classic Iron Junkyard Gallery: Walk The Aisles of a Cool Junkyard in Pasadena, Texas With Lots of Neat Old Junk!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – With the dog days of summer holding the gulf coast in a firm headlock, car shows during these months are pretty much nonexistent. So with a need to go...

Action Video: A Look Back at the 2012 Goodguys Sponsor Challenge With Hurst Shifters, the No Limit Truck, and…Chad?!

Like we told you about earlier today, the 2012 Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio played host 2012 to the Sponsor Shootout. The dudes and dudettes at Hurst made a cool video showing the action...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Goodguys PPG Nationals – Columbus, Ohio

(Photos by Justin Oney) – The Goodguys have been stopping in Columbus, Ohio for the last 15 years and for good reason. The show has a life of its own and seems to get bigger and better each...

Video: Chad and Daphne Cruise, and Push, Joe’s 1980 Yamaha Enduro 100 After The Minibike Reunion

You know that we had an awesome time at Joe’s Minibike Reunion in La Crescenta on Saturday, and when the show was over, the fun certainly wasn’t. Daphne and I hit the road on Joe’s...

Watch An Awesome Drag Racing Save From Santa Pod in Super Slow Motion!

A couple weeks back our drag racin’ BangShifty brothers and sisters in England held a big nostalgia meet at Santa Pod called Dragstalgia. There were lots of cool cars and hopefully some of you...

WOW!!! Lucas Oil Off Road Racing RULES!!! We Get The VIP Treatment And Tons Of Jump Photos!

Tom Bogner and the entire team at Lucas Oil have always been great supporters and sponsors here at BangShift.com. But last week when we called Tom up, to talk about a bunch of new dyno tests we have...

Screaming Dyno Video: Jay Brown’s 530ci, 850hp, Fuel Injected, FE Ford Drag Week Hammer!

Jay Brown, he of FE engine building, home dyno owning, awesome Ford drag machine fame will once again fly the Blue Oval banner at Hot Rod Drag Week 2012. This time it is an aluminum, 530ci, fuel...

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Guest Blog: A BangShifter’s Great Stories and Memories of the Late Tom Hnatiw

(Editor’s note: Ed Nicholson is a long time BangShift reader. He’s also a long time competitive road racer, instructor, and car guy. Ed knew and raced with Tom Hnatiw a few years before...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Carlisle Truck Nationals

(Photos by John Button) – We’ve never been afraid to express our love of trucks here at BangShift. Chad is a reformed mini-truck guy, I love mud trucks, big rigs, and stuff that runs out...

Hilarious Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Bolt A Blower On to a SBC Powered Jag and Pound On It Mercilessly

The newest episode of Roadkill the web-show that documents the wacky adventures of David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan from Hot Rod Magazine was released last Friday and this one is pretty damned...