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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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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...

SEMA 2011 – A Look at the Costilow and Larson 1963 Shelby Dragon Snake Cobra

Original Shelby Cobras are some of the most valuable cars in the world. Within that already awesome group there is a sub-set of machines, the so-called “Dragon Snakes” that are even more...