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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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The Mario Andretti Story: Racing’s Most Versatile Driver? America’s Greatest American Racer? Watch

Mario Andretti was a household name when I was growing up watching him race at the Indy 500 and such. His career is insane, with more wins and championships than you can shake a stick at. But what...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 2 of 5 – His Bandit Trans Am Gets New Suspension Installed!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In the...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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American Powertrain Announces New X-Factor Cross Member for 1964-1967 GM A-Bodies

Cross members are certainly unappreciated parts, until you need one that fits your specific project. If you are swapping the trans, adding larger or dual exhaust, changing engines, etc, chances are,...

The Top 11 Greatest Ever Names of Race Car Drivers

Don’t be confused. This is not a list of nicknames, it’s a list of real names.  As per usual, we’ve probably made some glaring omissions here so feel free to insult us and tell us...

10-Year Old English Boy Steals Parents Car – Crashes Car Two Miles Later – 10 Year Olds Suck at Driving

Here’s a little newsflash for you. 10 year old kids suck at driving. This fact was further reinforced by the actions of a little guy in England recently when he got into an argument with his...

Watch the World’s Quickest and Fastest AMC Powered Drag Car Rip Off a 6 Second Lap – Twin Turbo Power!

While shooting texts back and forth over the weekend with my pal Jon Wall, he tipped me off to what has to be the coolest Top Dragster machine in the country, Alan O’Brien’s twin turbo,...

Watch an Off Road Racing Truck Jump and Land Directly on Top of Another Truck During a Race!

Jeremy McGrath cut his teeth in the tough and crazy world of motorcross in the 1980s and 1990s. He moved to off road racing trucks several years ago and has proven himself to be just as gnarly a...

Barnstormin’: Stuck in a World of Mere Mortals

I wonder if Art Arfons did his own laundry. I’m sure Evel Knievel didn’t. That’s what I was thinking the other night while switching the lights and darks down in my basement....

Project Buford T Justice Update: The Trans Thrash is ON!

If you remember, we put Project Buford T Justice on the dyno a couple weeks ago and fragged the trans and driveshaft in violent fashion. Since then, we recalled a transmission that has been living in...

Rumor Mill: NHRA to Announce 2013 National Event at New England Dragway on Wednesday at Boston Press Conference

This Wednesday at high noon, the NHRA will host a press conference in Boston. While there has been no official word from either the NHRA or the only sanctioned NHRA track within two hours of the...

BangShift Project: Introducing the $200 Hauler…A Tow Rig on a BangShift Budget!

Although the economy is looking up, regular Joes like us are still hurting, and there are plenty of folks, like us, who just can’t afford a new tow rig. So, when the opportunity came for us to...

BangShift Garage Spotlight: A Bitchin Blue Big Block 1969 Nova Super Sport We Wish We Had

It’s BangShift Garage Spotlight time, and this week we chose my69rat and his amazing big-block, 4-speed, 1969 Nova SS. He’s kind of a lurker on the BangShift.com forums, but that...

Question of the Day: What is the Lamest Automotive Myth?

As car dudes and dudettes, we live and breathe this stuff. Sadly, we’re in the minority when it comes to the general population. The majority of people don’t have a freaking clue about...

RacingJunk Find: A Large by Huge by FAST 8-Second 1996 Impala

The zenith of the Chevy B-body was the 1996 Chevy Impala SS. With great looks, good grunt from an LT1 V8, four doors, and room for a small immigrant family in the trunk, they were the last of a breed...

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Watch a Winged Sprint Car Pull a Massive Power Wheelie Down The Front Straight of a Dirt Track!

If you’ve never seen winged sprint cars in action, this video should get your juices flowing enough to start seeking out local race dates. The cars are dirt borne rockets that act like no other...

The Top 11 Greatest Automotive Sauces

We use a lot of automotive chemicals every day, and we refer to ’em all as sauce. Carb sauce, gear sauce, gasket sauce–whatever. By the time you’ve been through a few decades with...