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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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 LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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 Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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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,...

Kyle Busch Cited for Reckless Driving, May Lose Driver’s License

An evening joy ride in a pre-production Lexus sports car has landed Kyle Busch in some hot water with North Carolina law enforcement. That tends to happen when you run 128mph in a 45mph zone....

BangShift Tech: MSD PowerGrid Install and Test

When word hit the streets about MSD’s new PowerGrid ignition system we were excited like every other gearhead in the known universe. After learning how much time, sweat, and effort the men and...

Interview: Lohnes Goes Under the Heat Lamp at Scotty Gossen Exposed

Lead Photo Credit: Roger Richards  A little while back, I was interviewed by author Scotty Gossen, on his blog “Scotty Gossen Exposed”. Well, it was recently my BangShifty...