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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Video: AFCO and Ring Brothers Test Out the New PT Elite Shocks

Anyone who has seen a Ring Brothers built hot rod knows they don’t do anything half assed. In fact they have taken themed hot rods and muscle cars to a new level in recent years and continue to...

Drag Gallery: Hot Action From Byron Dragway’s Big Bucks Bracket Bash

Having taken you to Texas and then to eastern Massachusetts, we now wing you to Byron, Illinois, home of the legendary Byron Dragway. Greg Rourke, our photo contributor located in the “center...

Cruise Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise – Halifax, MA

With the three day weekend looming large in front of us, and a big green truck itching to hit a cruise night, we called the boss, reported that we had leprosy and ditched out of work early on Friday....

Grande Fuego Video: A European Nitrous Pro Mod Explodes and Burns to the Ground at Santa Pod

Another week, another incredible multi-angle set of videos showing a nitrous Pro Mod exploding and burning to the ground. This time, the action comes from historic Santa Pod Raceway in England, where...

Drag Gallery: The Matagorda County Mud Drags – Texas

Our ever intrepid Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam hit the Matagorda County Mud Drags over Memorial Day weekend, and they hit back. Charles caught a big ol hunk of Texas gumbo upside his noggin...

Indy 500 Video: A Finish No One Saw Coming!

While we understand that the Indy 500 isn’t anywhere near the peak of the popularity it experienced in decades past, we still make it a habit to tune in every year for as much of the race as...

Project Fat Cad Update: Amir Gets His Caddy and Shares his First Impressions

  FatCad Part 1 FatCad Part 2  FatCad Part 3 starts below!  Dennis Coy of Showroom Sales and Leasing came through and delivered the car. He had been keeping me posted as it was...

Cool Video: Jeri Ellsworth Builds a Pure Stock Circle Track Car in Her Driveway (Yes, we said her)

We were tipped off to this cool video (one in a series actually) by BangShift member Chryco63. It features tips and construction methods for modifying a late second generation Camaro into a Pure...

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Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser

As a quick refresher, we were handed a folio full of old glossy press photos and hand-typed press releases for “new” 1957 model cars. It’s totally nuts and we’re sharing them...

BangShift Question of they Day: What the Hell is This Thing?

This one has us completely and utterly stumped. This photo was posted by BangShift member Blazerteam and seems to show an old Buick that had truly horrible things done to it. Is this a motorhome?...

14-Year OId Texas Girl Wins New Camaro From Her High School For Good Grades and Attendance

When we graduated from high school, we were given a diploma, which was actually a restraining order that prohibited us from ever coming within 500 feet of the school ever again. We wish we were in...

Dirt Track Wreckage Video: A Crash Involving Virtually the Entire Field!

This video of dirt modifieds wrecking in one colossal heap may lack for quality, but it more than makes up for it with calamity. Filmed at Ransomville Speedway in New York, it shows the biggest chain...

Great Read: Ed Hinton Counts Down the All Time Indy 500 Field for the 100th Anniversary of the Race

Ed Hinton is truly a national treasure when it comes to auto racing journalism. He always manages a blockbuster Indy 500 story every year on the week of the race. Last year is was the epic history of...

German Man Wrecks Pagani Zonda Roadster F At 200-Mph, Lives, Dad Going to Kick His Ass

Normally, we don’t give a flying foo about Italian sports cars who have names that we can barely pronounce. When they are wrecked on public roads at nearly 200mph and everyone lives, however,...