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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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The 2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Television Show Airs Tonight!

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge is truly the premier competition amongst the best Pro Touring cars in the country, and the world. Taking place each year, the weekend after the SEMA show...

AFCO Racing Joins the BangShift Sponsor Family

We are proud and honored to announce that AFCO Racing, one of the most diversified companies in the high performance aftermarket has joined on as a sponsor of BangShift.com. With product lines...

Painful Fail Video: A Snowmobile Crosses a Creek and Eats a Tree

Here’s a video that shows how one can go from hero to bone crushing failure in about half a second. In the film, you’ll see a snowmobile launch off to skip across a creek somewhere out in...

Awesome Roadside Find: A Stepside Cadillac Eldorado

Intrepid BangShift reader Eagle Kammback was cruising the streets in his native New Jersey when he came upon what may be the single greatest roadside find in the history of the internet. This is an...

Video: A Fuel Injected Pro Stock Hemi Tuning Session on Ray Barton’s Dyno

We teased you the other day with a short video of an 1100hp full race Hemi screaming into the night through the exhaust system of the dyno at Ray Barton Racing Engines, now here’s the whole...

New Jersey Motorsports Park Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

These are tough times to be running a race track in. Recently, the operators of New Jersey Motorsports Park, a multi-use racing facility in Millville, NJ declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to...

Stop and Gawk: Header Flaming Wheelstand Drag Race Photo Coolness

Kevin Blalock’s photos have appeared on the pages of BangShift before, but they have always shown cars exploding, on fire, or barfing parts. This time he sent one along that is just pure...

Racing Junk Find: A Beautiful Bonneville Racer 1955 Chevy

While there are probably a number of practical racing arguments against owning this absolutely awesome 1955 Chevy LSR machine, the non-practical reasons for owning it number in the thousands. The...

Bitchin’ Old Video: A Collection of 1936 Chevrolet Newsreels

Old promotional newsreel films are always a gas. This collection of Chevrolet-centric films from 1936 does not disappoint. There’s a bevy of bathing beauties using the car as a water slide and...

Robby Gordon Placed on Indefinite Probation by NASCAR

Robby Gordon, the multi-faceted driver that sees action in NASCAR, off road, and open wheel racing has been placed on “indefinite probation” by NASCAR officials after an scrum with his...

New Video From the Best Engine Explosion Ever, HD Detail of The Exploded Mill!

A short while back, we found video of the Never Satisfied pulling tractor exploding and launching the engine right out of it’s chassis. We were actually the first people to post that video and...

Tune In: Captain Jack McClure to Appear on the Wally Bell Show Tonight!

Captain Jack McClure one of the craziest guys we’ve ever had the chance to interview and feature here on BangShift.com, and the driver of the insane rocket powered go kart drag strip terror of...

Sayonara Saleen Mustang – Production to Close This Summer

t is the end of an era. For the first time since the early 1980s there won’t be a Saleen Mustang next year, hell, there won’t be a new one by the end of this summer. Revstone Industries,...

Reader Show Gallery: The 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars – Hamburg, NY

BangShift reader Jays67 answered our call to BangShifters when we asked for photos from car shows, drag races, or any BangShifty event that our readers attend. In Jay’s case it was the 2011...