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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $50,000 Sunday

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Buford T Justice 9C1 Update: The Parts From Hotchkis, Cragar, AFCO, and Mickey Thompson

Last week we put Buford T Justice, our project 1987 Caprice 9C1 through the last set of paces on the stock suspension and tires. The car performed as we pretty much thought it would, wallowing some,...

Watch An Opel Speedster Wreck Hard on the Nurburgring in Germany – Video

Germany’s Nurburgring has been in the news lately because poor management and awful financial decisions have left it nearly bankrupt. People from all corners of the world have been freaking out...

Super Bitchin Mopar Video: The 1971 Challenger “Goodguys Missile” 2012 Giveaway Car

Mopar fans rejoice, the Goodguys 2012 Giveaway car is an artistic interpretation of the venerable Motown Missile of the 1970’s. Our friends at Route2Media put this great video together showing...

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Racing Junk Find: A Rick Jones Built 1968 Barracuda With Modern Pro Stock Power!

Well this is full on bad-assery to the highest order here! A classic 1968 Barracuda stuffed with a 500ci modern Pro Stock engine and all kinds of full boogie chassis work from Rick Jones Race Cars in...

Check This Out: FAST LSX 92mm Intake Manifold Is Now Available In Black!

We are fans of black engines, even our Chevy engines are always black or cast coat grey. And now the guys at FAST have helped us out by making black the new color of choice for LS engines with their...

Watch the BangShift Sticker Equipped Elephant Hunter Scout Gasser Break the Wheelie Bars and Go Vertical at Byron Dragway!

Dave Pelissier is a BangShifter with a hella cool machine. His 1963 International Scout has graced our pages before. Originally built as a street machine in western Canada with a Hemi in the front,...

Check Out Video of a Bitchin’ 1961 Ford Shop Truck – Striping and Stance Perfection

Shop trucks have certainly become their own dedicated genre of the hobby over the last several years. Hell, half of the reason I bought the old C50 wrecker that’s currently in my stable is...

BangShift Slap Fight: Do Pro Street Cars Require Stupid Power to Be Cool Or is Mild OK? Brian and Chad Debate!

(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the gearhead...

The BangShift Spotter’s Guide to Bitchin’ Old Australian Muscle Cars and ‘Utes

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – It is a minor coincidence that we’re heavy on content based in Oz today. We were tipped off to the cool old Aussie drag racing videos by an Australian reader...

Video Bonanza: Awesome 8mm Films of 1960s Australian Drag Racing – Bitchin’ Hot Rods and Drag Machines!

One of the things that I always love to learn about is the history of drag racing in places outside of the USA. The reason that it fascinates me is because while the sport itself was exported from...

Get Your Stop On: Baer Brakes New Catalog Makes Stopping Your Hot Rod Even Easier

Baer Brakes may be new to the BangShift family of sponsors but they are arguably the biggest name in performance braking and their newest catalog certainly reinforces why. If you thought that Baer...

eBay Find: A Super Clean and Totally Awesome 1974 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty

As the domestic high performance car was all but dead on the operating table after a gas crisis and draconian legislation in the early 1970s, one small glimmer of light managed to escape the clutches...

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Evil Golf Cart Video: Sick N Twisted Designs Drag Race Electric Golf Cart

Saturday night we went to Irwindale for a little test and tune session with our boys Bill Fowler and Scott Clark, and not only were we impressed with Bill’s 1000hp PUMP GAS, NATURALLY...

Question of the Day: Now We’ve Seen It All! Rent An Excavator For Fun? Would You Do It?

I’m pretty sure this counts as a “Now I’ve seen everything” moment. I know that a lot of cool stuff comes up as Groupons, but this one takes the cake on weird. I guess the...