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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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Cool New Product: Global West Suspension Blackline Suspension Bushings for 2005-2012 Mustangs

Chad and I had been hearing some buzz around the show floor at SEMA regarding Global West Suspensions and their new “Blackline” series of products. The Blackline name signifies that all...

Drag Gallery: The 2011 NMRA/NMCA Lonestar Shootout

While the “official” NMRA/NMCA season may be over, the organization is still running a few races to round out the competition for the year. Just this past weekend they were at Royal...

Cool or Not: The Trans Am Depot 6T9 Goat Camaro Conversion

Our “Cool or Not” series rages on today with this, the “6T9 Goat” from Trans Am Depot. The folks at Trans Am Depot have been making conversion kits for late model Camaros for...

New Parts: RideTech Announces New Rear Coil Over Conversion for 1978-88 GM G-Bodies

The venerable General Motors G-Body platform was an amazingly popular run of cars from the late 1970s right throught the 1980s. Being rear wheel drive, having a frame and of svelte weight, they are a...

eBay Find: A 600-HP Ford RS200 Evolution Group B Rally Rocket

We’ve written lots about the Group B rally cars of the 1980s. The so-called “Killer Bs” were machines so far ahead of their time, the FIA banned them after only a couple of seasons...

eBay Find: A 1968 Ford Fairlane That Comes With a Free Elephant in the Room

Drag Illustrated Magazine’s Ian Tocher is wholly responsible for this lime green, mega-winged, four door 1968 Fairlane ending up here on the front page. He sent us this eBay ad tip and we could...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Pumpkin Run – Vintage Junkyard and Hot Rod Greatness

One of the coolest shows that I’ve never been to is the annual Pumpkin Run that is held at Fleming’s Junkyard in New Jersey each Fall. The show encompasses everything from tractors to...

BangShift Says Thank You To All Veterans on This Veterans Day 2011

We here at BangShift.com would like to extend our sincere thanks to all of the veterans who have served our country through the years. The sacrifice of time, sweat, and blood have preserved our way...

Video: Jay Leno Checks Out the Hand Built Magnolia Special at his Big Dog Garage

JT Nesbitt is a guy who defines what it means to be a BangShifter. After seeing a video on the Leno’s Garage website years ago, he decided to take up the challenge personally of building a sexy...

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Car Show Gallery: Goodguys Charlotte – 2011 (With Bonus Detroit Speed Shop Photos!)

Our man Doug Garrison ventured out of his native Pennsylvania to the southern climes of Charlotte to take in the Goodguys Rod and Custom show at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The sprawling facility...

Video Alert: Stolen Race Car – 40K Reward Offered To Find It – Help Needed!

Thieves are the worst level of human scum. Unfortunately some struck recently and they stole an entire drag racing operation that was parked in Aiken, South Carolina. The brazen jerks made off with a...

Cool or Not: A 1974 Mazda RX4 Powered by a 2JZ Engine

A Toyota powered Mazda on the front page of BangShift?! Sure, as we continue our “Cool or Not” series we’re challenging you yet again with an unusual machine that will make some...

In-Car Wreckage Video: An 8-Second Integra Eats The Wall at 150-Mph

Evans Tuning is a high performance shop that focuses on the import side of the car hobby. They have a wicked little race car in the form of a highly modified Acura Integra. The video you are about to...

Racing Junk Find: A Corner Burning, Strip Scorching, LS Powered Lotus Seven Replica

Don’t think for one second that Chad and I have not been privately scheming on a car that we could take on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week and the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational....