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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

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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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana 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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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Carnage of the Week: An Old Dodge Camper in Hilarious Action on a Tough Truck Track

It doesn’t get any cooler than this. Someone bought an old crusty Dodge camper at a public auction for close to nothing, took said camper to the county fair, and then entered the thing, bone...

Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass Poncho Powered Pontiac Drag Warrior

There are lots of Pontiac bodied drag race cars prowling strips across America, but few of them have actual Pontiac power. Nope, most of them are just a Pontiac body holding a Chevy motor. Not this...

eBay Find: A Historic Chopped Willys Gasser

If there’s one thing cooler than a Willys gasser, it’s a chopped roof Willys Gasser! We got tipped off to the sale of the Shinholster and Lehman 1941 Willys, which is currently for sale...

Event Gallery: The Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show – Philadelphia, PA

At the tail end of the worst winter anyone in the Northeast region can remember, Philadelphia’s Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show pretty well marks the end of indoor car show season. Our man...

Killer Shop Tour: CJ Pony Parts

CJ Pony Parts is one of the largest Mustang specific parts and equipment sellers in the world. The Pennsylvania based company sells virtually every nut and bolt for ‘Stangs ranging from 1964 to...

BangShift Poll: Are T-Buckets Cool?

One of the debates that shakes BangShift right down to the core centers around T-buckets. Chad hates them to death and I think that they are generally cool. Brass lanterns and garish 1970s trend...

Hunnert Car Heads Up Coming to Great Lakes Dragaway – June 11

The Hunnert Car Heads Up Vintage Drags are back for their third running! The action will again take place at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. That strip was recently voted the most...

Big Collection of Nickey Chevrolets Headed to the Mecum Auction Block in May

One of the nation’s foremost collection of ultra high performance Nickey Chevrolets will hit the auction block during the Mecum Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011. The event is being held...

BangShift Tech: How much horsepower does a mechanical water pump really take to spin?

BangShift.com is proud to be working at Westech Performance Group on a variety of Engine Tech stories in 2011, and some are going to be in depth and others will be interesting facts or fun tests to...

Killer Project Video: The Gixxer Kart Has A new Foe!

For years the golden standard of insane power to weight ratio on the internet has been the infamous “Gixxer kart” which mated the engine from a GSX-R motorcycle to the frame of a tiny go...

First New Motion Camaro Hits the Road – 800hp Monster for Joel Rosen

A while back we announced that the legendary Motion Performance brand of Joel Rosen was going to be brought back with a series of hot rodded new Camaros. The first of these beasts has officially been...

Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring

Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Car Song of All Time?

On a recent cruise down the highway, we slipped an unmarked CD into the radio and out sprang Ronnie and the Daytonas, belting out their famous car tune, G.T.O. That got us to thinking about the...

Caption This Photo: A Well Worn Econoline

We’ve seen lots of neglected vehicles in our day. Typically, up here in New England they rot into a pile, but down in bayou country, they seem to suffer a different fate. This Econoline looks...