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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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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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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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

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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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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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Dyno Video: PAR Racing Engines Builds a Brodix Based Small Block – Makes more than 1100 Horsepower

While we’re throwing the whole “small block” term around here on the blog today, we wanted to show you a real romper stomper of a motor built by the dudes at PAR Racing Engines....

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GM Builds 100-Millionth small block engine — Not V8 – Just Engine

The GM PR department shot out a release the other day announcing that the General had produced their 100-millionth small block “engine”. That last part is important. They didn’t...

Crazy Video: Evidence of Why Russian Drivers Suck Ass at Driving

We’ve run a ton of videos featuring the ineptitude of Russian drivers. They suck on dry pavement, the rain, especially in the snow, and telling you they blow on ice would just be wasting...

Updated: The 2011 Houston Autorama – Galleries One-Two- and Now Three!

Last weekend the Houston Autorama went down and our man Charles Wickam was on the scene to cover the show literally from setup to tear down. The man went bat poop crazy with his camera, submitting...

Breaking News: Austin Healey Involved in 1955 LeMans Wreck to be Auctioned – Most Dubious Surviving Race Car in History

The Austin Healey 100S driven by British racer Lance Macklin in the 1955 24 Hours of LeMans, and more importantly, the very car that Pierre Levegh hit before cartwheeling into the grandstand and...

Driveway Tech: Attempt One at Freeing Stuck Piston Rings – Did We Succceed?

Everyone says that buying a ganny fresh old car is the best. They are one owner, low mileage gems that granny ony drove to bingo and her Wednesday hair appointment. There can be a problem with...

Cool Video: Brett Voelkel of Air Ride and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Hook Up To Hot Rod A CTS-V

Here’s a video that falls into the “how to make a good thing better” department. When our pal and OG BangShifter Brett Voelkel scooped up a used Cadillac CTS-V we knew that it would...

MORE: MISC, Videos

BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Important Race in the World?

By the time you read this, I’ll be in the sky, on my way to the 24th annual Performance Racing Industry show in Orlando, Florida. For the rest of the week the blog will be filled with racing...

Racing Junk Find: More Pro Street Mini-Van Love – A Yellow Dodge With a Bowtie Heart

After yesterday’s peek at the street/strip Astro van we thought we had found the pinnacle of mini-van bad-assery. By complete chance a couple of key strokes on RacingJunk.com netted us...

Aeromotive Hires Chuck Samuel as Crew Chief of the Aeromotive Ford Mustang Pro Mod

Big news from our friends at Aeromotive fuel systems today as they have hired Chuck Samuel, one of the great door slammer racers and engine builders of the last 20 years to be the crew chief on the...

BangShift Question of the Day: What are you interested in seeing from the 2011 PRI Show?

Tomorrow I’m hopping a plane for sunny Orlando to spend the remainder of the week at the 2011 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show. The show has been running for 24 years and in simple terms...

Historic Video: The Story of the Hogslayer – The Greatest Twin Engine Top Fuel Motorcycle of All Time

The early and mid-1970s were the pinnacle of the twin engine Top Fuel motorcycle. The bike that ruled the roost during that time was not a Harley powered contraption. Instead it was a Kenosha,...

Slogging Insanity Video: The Lawless Muck Filled Start to the 2011 Baja 1000

While I have never personally been to the Baja 1000, Chad has and the stories are pretty amazing. The beginning stages of the race are normally crowded with people all hoping to get a first hand look...

eBay Find: A Caged Street-Strip Astro Van From the Shop of Ken Herring

Well this is sure the BangShiftiest family hot rod we have seen in a while! Built at the shop of Pinks and Pass Time star Ken Herring (Texas Chassisworks) it has a snotty V8 stuck in it’s...