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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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The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The HISTORY of Alabama’s Favorite Wheelstanding Farm Truck!

Only in the 1960s did a track like Baileyton Goodtime Dragstrip have an in house wheelstander. I mean it wasn’t theirs, but was regularly seen at the track and there are tons of stories about...

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BangShift Pro Touring Tech: The Basics of Traction Made Easy!

(By Dave Nutting) – (Editor’s Note: As we get ready to unveil our newest project car later this week, which is going to burn corners and the strip, we are going to be bringing you more...

Bitchin’ Nitro Video: Top Fuel and Funny Car Warm Ups From the 2012 March Meet

We often joke about trying to add “Smell-O-Vision” technology to the BangShift streaming drag race broadcasts to inject the scent of nitro into the shops and homes of viewers all over the...

Buddy Ingersoll, Drag Racing Turbo Pioneer Passes

A true innovator and pioneer in drag racing, Buddy Ingersoll passed away on Sunday. Among his accomplishments were an IHRA Modified Eliminator World Championship, volumes of innovations and...

Event Coverage: Goodguys Scottsdale 2012 – Autocross Action and Show Photos

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Well the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association season has begun and our man Chad is on the scene announcing the autocrosses at Goodguys events all across the country....

Watch Lunatics Literally Rip the Motor Out of a VW Golf With a Tree – a Chain – and Violence

Time for some Friday afternoon video stupidity. This clip has been floating around for a little while but for sheer destructive goodness, it simply cannot be beat. Basically this is footage of a...

Awesome March Meet Video: Four Days of Madness – See All of 2012’s Thrills and Spills!

The killer media keeps flowing from the 2012 March Meet. This latest piece we were tipped off to was created by our friend Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian who is an awesome drag photog and video maven as well as...

Senna is Now Available on DVD – Fantastic Film is a Must See for BangShifters

Full disclosure: I was offered a freebie review copy of the documentary Senna that is about the life and racing career of Ayrton Senna. The film has been out for some time but is now available for...

American Powertrain Has the New Tremec Magnum XL Transmissions For SN197 Mustangs – Ditch the Weak Suck Stocker!

This is not a newsflash for S197 Mustang owners but the stock Getrag MT82 manual transmission essentially blows goats for all out performance driving. There have been lots of customer complaints...

Wild Photos and Video: A Log Impales a Mini-Van – Driver Miraculously Survives

Well this would certainly get your attention! A guy driving down the highway, minding his own business in Mississippi had the close call of a lifetime yesterday when a logging truck was involved in...

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Sad News: IHRA’s Jim Weinert Passes

“Big Jim” Weinert, the mountain of a man of oversaw track prep and safety at IHRA events for many years has passed away. Weinert was one of the sport’s true characters and his skill...

Watch the Crusher Camaro Hit the Strip and Run 10s!

Freiburger and Finnegan are at it again, this time with the well known Crusher Camaro. The Camaro has been a part of Hot Rod off and on since the mid 1990s when it was saved from being crushed at a...

eBay Find(s): Two Massive Pontiac Wagon Airport Limos

Old school airport limos are neat in a freakshow kind of way. Unlike modern limos that just have four doors and a large passenger area with a wet bar, TV, hot tub, stripper pole, and snappy lighting,...

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Breaking News: 2012 COPO Camaro Confirmed by Chevrolet Performance – 69 Cars to Be Built

The 2012 COPO Camaro is not longer a concept car, the model will be produced by Chevrolet and 69 of them will be manufactured this year. The announcement came from Chevrolet Performance today and it...

Feature: A Day In the Life of the Champion Speed Shop Nostalgia Top Fuel Team

(Words and photos by Red Line Synthetic Oil) – Race fans in the aging wooden grandstands at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield let out a collective breath as a pair of Nostalgia Top Fuel...