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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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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Gallery: Big Trucks and Other 4×4 Vehicles at SEMA 2011

Acting under strict orders from Chad, I did not enter the four wheel drive and off road hall until Friday morning. When I did, I was greeted by an awesome array of trucks, Jeeps, and other vehicles....

SEMA 2011 – A Six Speed Dog Box Manual For Rear Wheel Drives From Quaife

As Chad and I were cruising the 2011 SEMA show on Friday we happened upon a booth with a bad ass crash box for sale. Long known for their differentials and transmissions for foreign stuff, Quaife now...

Bastards: Kansas City International Raceway To Be Bought by City Government and Made Into a Park

Kansas City International Raceway, which has been in operation since the late 1960s and formerly served as the home of the American Hot Rod Association appears to be dead, taken in a series of...

Breaking News: Danny Popp Wins 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Corvette – Insanely Tight Battle With Mark Stielow

Noted racer Danny Popp has won the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational after a down to the wire battle with Mark Stielow. In a virtual dead heat on points after all the events were tallied,...

The Final RideTech Report of the Week From SEMA 2011

As we post this, RideTech’s Brett Voelkel is tooling on the now infamous “48 Hour Camaro” at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Nevada. The competition is probably the...

Video: SEMA 2011: Detroit Speed is EVERYWHERE!!!!

Here at BangShift.com we are proud to have the finest suspension system companies on the planet as part of our great group of sponsors. It means we get to hang out with great people who really know...

Video: AFCO Racing SEMA 2011: Shocks, Struts, Radiators, K-Members and More!

Longtime BangShift.com Sponsor AFCO Racing showed up at the 2011 SEMA Show in full force, and we’ve got a ton of great stuff from them to show you. From Cobra Jet Mustang heat exchangers to...

Golden Ticket Selections for The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Announced – Action This Weekend!

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational is set to begin this afternoon at the close of the 2011 SEMA show with the competitors going on a road rally to their ultimate destination of Pahrum,...

SEMA 2011 – Oddly Cool Stuff

Earlier this week we brought you a few photos of stuff that was either hideous, showed some glaring safety issues, or was too weird for a non-profane description. Consider this the yin to that yang...

Lingenfelter has it all! New Crate Engines, Signature Series Camaros, and More.

Lingenfelter has always been know for big boy power on the both the street and the strip. Well this week Lingenfelter is back on the Vegas Strip for the first time in 10 years, brought the big guns...

Engine Porn Gallery: Chevrolet High Performance V8 engines from the 1960s to Today!

Part of Chevrolet’s massive SEMA display is the historic engines collection that travels the country and gets set up and different shows and events. We have seen bits and pieces of it before,...

SEMA 2011 – Autometer Introduces Cool New Products and Launches Custom Gauge Website – Coolness Ensues

We had been hearing about some cool stuff being launched by the guys over at Autometer, so we decided to barge into their display and find out for ourselves. It turns out the rumors were right and...

SEMA 2011 – Cherry Bomb Exhaust Update

We stopped in to chat with our pals at Cherry Bomb and got the latest scoop on their plans for the upcoming year. Cherry Bomb has really worked hard in developing their racing mufflers and exhaust...

The Ridetech Report: SEMA 2011 from a Hot Rodders Perspective

Ridetech Grand Poobah Bret Voelkel is known for saying it like it is, and for having a good time whenever possible. This week we’ll be bringing you his “Hot Rodders Perspective” of...