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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden 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 as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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BangShift FREE LIVE Streaming Video of the So Cal Challenge Pro Touring Event March 29!

We told you we would be bringing you more Pro Touring action in 2012, and it starts tomorrow! Black Ink Media and No Limit Engineering have brought together a killer cast of characters, including our...

American Powertrain Launches New Website – Check It Out!

The dudes at American Powertrain have launched a totally new website and is easy to navigate and showcases their huge line of products and components. There are also lots of sexy transmission...

Question of the Day: What is the Coolest Cop Car Ever?

So we have been on a cop car kick around here recently. Part of is has been intentional with our coverage of Project Buford T Justice, while the other stuff has either fallen out of the sky into our...

Event Gallery: Fun Ford Weekend Houston Gallery 2

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with another slammin’ gallery from our man in Texas, Charles Wickam. He shot hundreds of great photos at the 2012 Fun Ford Weekend held at...

Evel Knievel’s Aston Martin Lagonda is For Sale – 502ci Chevy Powered

The Aston Martin Lagonda was produced from 1974 to 1990. Over that time period only 645 of them were made. They were incredibly expensive, pretty damned ugly, and amazingly unreliable in both the...

Another 1970s Vintage Mopar Cop Car Video – High Speed Pursuit Driving Narrated by Jack Webb!

Yesterday we brought you some killer early 1970s training films from the California Highway Patrol. Today it is another training film on police high speed driving circa the 1970s but this was was...

Caption This Photo: We Have a Sick Sense of Humor

(Photo by Dave Nutting) So it was a normal BangShift Saturday morning. Dave Nutting and I were in the middle of the woods taking photos of Buford T Justice, BangShift’s newest project car. I...

Driveway Tech: How to Adjust Your GM Steering Box in Five Minutes With Two Tools

As much as I like getting neck deep in grease, oil, and various automotive fluids, there is a certain satisfaction in tackling a quickie job that helps improve the driving experience of your car. On...

Car Show Gallery: The Northeast Rod and Custom Show – Gallery 1

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – While Wickam was prancing around Royal Purple Raceway in Texas last weekend, PA-based photo contributor Joe Grippo was romping through the massive Northeast Rod and...

Question of the Day: What is the Most Dumbass Automotive Argument?

Ford vs Chevy. Carbs vs EFI. Pure gasoline vs E85. The list of automotive arguments that one could enter into is nearly endless. Hell, there are genres of this hobby that we don’t even venture...

Watch Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel Autocross the Company Dually and Actually Finish Mid-Pack!

Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel is a mad man. He is also one hell of a driver, so when we saw a video that showed the Ridetech Chevy dually truck attacking the autocross at the Goodguys Pleasanton,...

Jeep Mighty Forward Control, J-12, Traildozer and other Concepts Revealed

Literally as we type this, Chrysler is having a media event in Auburn Hills, Michigan to reveal the concept Jeeps we told you about last week. In a surprise to no one, they all freaking rule. The...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Keystone Nationals Truck and Tractor Pull – Harrisburg, PA

When BangShift reader Eric contacted the home office and asked if we would be interested in a load of photos from the 2012 Keystone National truck and tractor pull held in Harrisburg, PA we jumped at...

Event Gallery: Fun Ford Weekend Houston Gallery 1

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Fun Ford Weekend series was brought back to life be a great group of race track owners and promoters a couple years ago and they haven’t looked back...