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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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eBay Find: A Bitchin’ Ex-Mopar Factory Drag Car Hauler!

We here at BangShift HQ are fully in love with old race car haulers, especially those of the factory variety. Reader Chris Crowley tipped us off to this absolutely killer 1974 Dodge factory drag car...

Caption the Greatest Helmet Photo Ever

This photo comes to us courtesy of Action Racing Photos and our friends Jay Spinella and Denis LeBlanc. It could be the funniest picture ever taken.  This highly experienced racer was getting...

Caption This Photo: Why it is Totally Impossible to Look Cool Bicycling

This photo, shot on a cell phone by our pal Jay Spinella is too good not to share. It is the ultimate illustration of our theory that it is impossible to look cool on a bicycle, especially with the...

Road Trip Journal: A BangShifter’s Tale of Travel Woe Getting to the Car Craft Summer Nationals

(Editor’s Note: This is one hell of a tale! It takes a special level of testicular fortitude to set off on a 2400 mile round trip journey in your hot rod project. That level gets cranked up...

Cool Video: 101 year old Margaret Dunning Still Cruises Her 1930 Packard!

Margaret Dunning is 101 years old, which is pretty damned impressive in itself. Add the fact that she still cruises her 1930 Packard, changes its oil and spark plugs as well as the other maintenance...

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Racing Junk Find: A 1990s-Tastic Pontiac Grand Am Pro Street Machine

Since the ass-high, side piped, rubber protruding from the fenders look of the 1970s street machine is  now back in vogue, the pastel painted Pro Street wonders of the 1990s will be back soon...

Bitchin’ Video: A Willys Jeep Pulling Wheelies at Powercruise USA

We’ve been hearing some good stuff about the Powercruise event that went down a couple weeks ago at Brainerd Raceway in Minnesota. There was arm drop drag racing, burnouts galore, drifting, and...

UPDATE: Budget Bad Ass: Putting a Breathed on LS Engine Into a ’70 Camaro on the Cheap

There’s nothing like a good old fashioned project to get our blood pumping around here. When we saw BangShift.com member 1970camaroRS’s project car thread about removing a B&M blown,...

Massachusetts Company Figures Out How to Grow…Diesel?

While the topic of corn-based ethanol is one of the more divisive subjects among gearheads, a Massachusetts company has come up with a way to potentially solve it with an organism that produces fuel...

Cool Video: A Vintage Ford Pro Stocker Rumbles Back To Life

There’s a slowly emerging crop of vintage Pro Stock drag race cars emerging around the country. Some, like this car were truly competitors back in the day, while others, like Brian...

Is the First Hemi ‘Cuda Worth 3.2 Million Bucks?

Our pal Phil Cooper shot us a note a few days ago asking if the dude trying to sell the very first E-body Hemi ‘Cuda was high on drugs or on the mark looking for a mile high pile of dough for...

Ridetech To Give Away Full Suspension System at 2011 Holley LS Fest In Unique Challenge

The dudes at Ridetech are always thinking of cool ways to promote and showcase their products. They’ve come up with another unique gearhead challenge that will go down at the 2011 Holley LS...

BangShift Quick Tech: How to install window seals in your muscle car

Sometimes it’s the little things can be intimidating when building your hot rod, and window seals and weather stripping seem to be one of those projects that people dread. The truth is they are...

Bolt in Big Power Fuel System: Aeromotive’s New 340 Stealth Fuel Pumps

Long known for offering some of the most bad assed fuel pumps on the planet, Aeromotive has once again stepped up. Their Eliminators and A1000 pumps can flow enough fuel a Pro Mod, but what about the...