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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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Chadmouth: Substitutes. aka Tofurkey, Light Beer, LS Engines?

This Chadmouth is a short one, but I just got done watching Anthony Bordain’s No Reservations show on TV where, while eating a fried pork chop gracefully placed between two halves of a soft...

The True Story Behind The Fake Racetrack in Chrysler’s Latest TV Commercial

Dodge’s latest television commercial is a spot plugging their Durango SUV. Rather than showing the vehicle backing over a flower bed or slowly ambling up a crushed stone driveway, the spot...

Mega Show Gallery: The 2011 Turning Back Time Car Show – Sycamore, Illinois

We decided to pull the pin on this photo grenade last today. Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke knocked this baby out of the park! The dudes attended the 2011 Turning Back Time Car Show in Sycamore,...

AMC Gallery: The Kenosha Homecoming 2011

BangShift member and Wisconsinite Mikes343Sharpstick is a dude who loves his own bitchin’ AMC Javelin and has recently picked up an old IMSA racer AMC project as well. When he let us know that...

Cool Gallery: Mega Moto Demo Day at the Simeone Museum – Unobtanium in Action

The Simeone Museum is an incredible place when you consider that virtually everything in it belongs to one dude, Dr. Fred Simeone. Not one to just allow everything to sit and collect dust, Simeone...

Drag Gallery: The Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion – Englishtown, NJ

Joe Grippo braved incredibly oppressive heat to bring us an awesome gallery of nearly 200 photos from the Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion at Raceway Park in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. The...

Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, MA

We finally managed to get ourselves, and Goliath down to the massive, 2,000 car, bi-weekly cruise event at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts last week. With our two boys strapped...

BangShift Exclusive A 13-Original Mile 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 Emerges

We were recently tipped off to what may be the lowest mileage Third-Gen Firebird on Earth by our pal Berserko Bob. The car was bought brand new with the intention of being turned into an NHRA Super...

The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!

Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...

Killer Video: Mike Ryan Wheels His Freightliner Up Mount Washington!

Jason Lewis has done it again. The first time we saw Lewis do his thing with Mike Ryan we fell in love with the video, called “Size Matters”. It is Ken Block meets a hot rod Freightliner...

Vote for Kyle Tucker! BFG “Select the Seats” Baja 1000 Voting Starts Now

Detroit Speed’s Kyle Tucker is once again in the hunt for a seat in the famed Baja 1000 and thanks to BFG you can help him get there. Voting has started on BFG’s Facebook page, and there...

Feedback: Take the MSD Survey and Tell ’em How They’re Doing!

Proud BangShift sponsor MSD Ignition is a company that spends lots of time interacting with their customers. From scouring the country with their massive tech trailer at NHRA events, truck pulls, and...

The Rest of the Story Behind Grumpy Jenkins 1977 Match Race Wreck at Oswego Dragway

Earlier this week we ran an item that highlighted a cool website centered around the history of Oswego Dragway. One of the photos on the site was of Grumpy Jenkins’s Pro Stocker mangled...

Caption This Photo: What the Hell Happened? Seriously, What the Freaking Hell Happened?

Holy wild photo Batman! BangShift photo contributor Greg Rourke nailed this shot of a completely mangled Chevy truck teetering on a bridge girder recently. We don’t want to skew the captions on...