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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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Video: BangShiftChad’s Dad Dynos his Real, One Owner, 1968 Z28 Camaro

Anyone who has been on Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week in the last few years, and most all BangShifters, know that my Dad Walt has a 1968 Z28 Camaro that he bought brand new. They also know that...

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Video: US Radiator teaches us about cooling systems.

We recently had a chance to hang out with Shawn and Don Armstrong from US Radiator, and were completely blown away by the way they do business. Not only did they jump on board for the 48 Hour Camaro...

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BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Motor?

With the greatness of that Miller engine we wrote about earlier today still swimming in our heads, we need to do something to get that lump of iron off out mind. While the Miller 91 isn’t our...

Cool Gallery: Pace Cars at the AACA Museum – Hershey, PA

The pace car, or as they call them in Europe, the “safety car” is a pretty important part of the road racing and circle track racing equation. There is a huge glory factor involved as...

Authentic Supercharged Miller 91ci Engine to be Auctioned at Mecum Milwaukee Event

One of the truly great engines of all time, a supercharged Miller 91 will hit the auction block in Milwaukee next month as part of the Mecum auction happening in conjunction with the Millers at...

NHRR Gallery: A Few Quick Shots from the Pits and Car Show at the 2011 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion

As we said in our gallery late last week, our photo taking abilities were hampered this year because we were working the live streaming video from the event, not allowing us a lot of time to rome....

Butt Pucker Video: Tanner Foust Nearly Bites it During Truck Jump Test

Tanner Foust’s captain insano jump at the Indy 500 came off without a hitch. The truck flew to a new world record and the crowd went nuts. After watching the jump it is easy to think that...

Roadside Find: You’re Doing It Wrong – V8 S10 Truck

We spotted this gem on the side of the road in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was parked in front of the drug store, appropriately enough. We had never really considered the fact that someone could do a...

Racing Junk Find: The World’s Wildest Gremlin!

During our time at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, Chad and I freaked out like women on an Oprah giveaway show when we saw an awesome little Gremlin yanking the tires and running into the 10s....

Cool Video: Freiburger and Nick Licata Thrash the Hot Rod E-Rod Camaro

We’re not sure how we missed this cool video when it first hit the web, but we’re glad we found it now. The three minute clip features David Freiburger and Camaro Performers Nick Licata...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 AACA Car Show – Conklin, NY

Another great Father’s Day Car Show gallery from another great BangShift reader! Jeremy George took in the 46th AACA Car Show, Cruise and Swap Meet last Sunday and shot more than 150 photos of...

BangShift Question of the Day: Seen a Good Personalized License Plate Lately?

While we were driving to the hospital on Friday, during the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, Chad and I spotted a 1980s Oldsmobile hearse (since it was white, maybe it was a morgue mobile?) sitting...

Car Show Gallery: The Batavia, Illinois VFW Car Show

While we were taking the slow boat home from Bowling Green on Sunday, intrepid BangShift contributing photographer Greg Rourke was pounding the pavement with his lens at the ready. Greg hung out at...

Haggard Looking Evan Knoll Has Court Date, Taken Into Fed Custody For Psych Evaluation

Evan Knoll, the Michigan man accused by the federal government of illegally and improperly collecting more than $80-million in fuel tax rebates appeared in court for the first time last Thursday. The...