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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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Epic Burnout Video: Brasher Burnout Nationals… Held In His Backyard… Literally

Whoever the hell Mick Brasher is, he rules all. Every time Brian leaves town I have to run some Australian burnout video, and this one rules more than any other burnout video ever. The best part is...

VOTE NOW!!! Help The D&Z Customs Built AMX Of “Hollywood” Jimi Day Win Car Craft Pro Builders Award

Randy Johnson, owner/builder at D&Z Customs, and AMXess car owner “Hollywood” Jimi Day are looking for some BangShift support, and we are going to give it to them. They have been...

Question of the Day: What is The Most Dangerous Thing You Have Ever Driven?

With the pulsejet powered motorcycle earlier in the day and the multiple nitro Harley wrecks in the last blog item we’re thinking today is danger day. We’ve all nursed a new project home,...

eBay Find: A Custom Harley Board Track Style Motorcycle Powered By Two Pulse Jet Engines

Admit it, you read the title a couple of times. We have stared at the photos of this motorcycle…err…jet bike for more time than we’d ever publicly admit. We have no idea why anyone...

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Watch a Blown Vega Wreck at the 100-Foot Drags in Lethbridge, Canada

Lethbridge, Canada is a city located out in the Alberta Province of the Great White North and it plays host to an event called, “Street Machine Weekend” each summer. As you’ll see...

Slap Fight: Brian Vs Chad – We Insult Each Other Over Turbos and Nitrous

(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...

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Buford T Justice, Our 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice Goes Through Final Testing Before the Upgrades Begin!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Take a good long look at this wallowing sad sack. It is the last time you’ll see ol’ Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice in stock form. Because we are...

$200 Hauler Project Update: Our 2000 Suburban Gets Wrapped! 24 Hour Makeover

Vinyl wraps on vehicles are nothing new. Every plumber, Vegas taxi cab, and city bus has got something, or someone, in vinyl down their sides. And when we repaired the quarter panel on our $200...

Epic Photo Sequence: First Time Pro Daredevil Jumps His Daily Driver Lincoln Over a Bunch of Vans!

(Photos by Chuck Clark) – This is total greatness. Ohio native Michael “Madman” Porter recently jumped a 1980s Lincoln over a bunch of vans at the Crawford County Fair, which was...

MSD Atomic EFI Gets The Off-Road Wet Test! Plus Free Air Cleaners from MSD with Atomic Purchase!

We dig it when folks test things hmmmm how should we put it…”thoroughly”. Or for you guys that don’t get innuendo, that means we dig it when people try to tear the crap out of...

RacingJunk Find: A Turbine Powered 1983 Datsun 280zx

Historically, the only Datsun Z-cars we have cars about were the one jammed full of snotty small block or rumbling big block engines. We can now add another variation to that theme with the finding...

Roadside Find Gallery: Vintage Stock Cars and Ancient Doodlebug Tractors

(Photos by Jeremy George) – Today we’ve been showing you all kinds of high zoot, race car stuff in the galleries but this one is proof that there is still some damned awesome stuff living...

Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Mo-Kan Dragway’s 50th Anniversary Race – Hot Rod, Wheelstanders, and More!

(Photos by Steve Wilson) – Mo-Kan Dragway in Asbury, Missouri is one of the neatest old strips in the country. The local racers, fans, and track management celebrated the track’s 50th...

Project Car: The Goodguys G/RS 1969 Camaro…The Build at Ridetech Continues

The Goodguys Rod and Custom Association has taken car shows to the next level for decades, and founder Gary and Marilyn Meadors are still cruising with the best of them. When their son Marc Meadors...