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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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PodCast – Listen to BangShift’s Chad Reynolds on Hot Rod Magazine Radio Live

Chad recently appeared on Hot Rod Magazine Radio hosted by Dennis Pittsenbarger. He was on the show talking about all kinds of stuff from the NHRA Unleashed series to the goings on here at BangShift....

BangShift Christmas Poem: Santa Rolls in a Pro Street 1967 Camaro

(Editor’s note: BangShift member Hamar (real name Hal) sent us this poem as told us we could use it if we wanted to. We read it and thought it would be perfect for a Christmas eve blog item. We...

eBay Find: An Awesome Tracked Slow Plow We’re Not Getting for Christmas

With tonight being the “big night” with respect to visits from Santa Claus, we’re too late to edit our wish list. In the event we had another week or two, this kick ass little...

BangShift.com Approved Re-Run: Nitromethane on a Budget With a Carb and Stock Heads!

Chuck Noble is a name that we were familiar with long before we actually met the man. Chuck’s been around the drag racing scene in New England for a while and ran a totally bad ass, blown,...

Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: Altered Wheelbase Mopars, Fuel Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, and a Tragic Fire

This is one of the coolest vintage drag racing videos we’ve dug up so far in our years of trolling YouTube. It features never before seen footage of some legendary altered wheelbase Mopar...

Crazy Wreckage Sequence Re-Run: A Dragster Pulls a Backflip

While our eyes were trained on the 52nd March Meet, the IHRA was holding their second event of the 2010 season down in Louisiana at State Capitol Raceway, March 5-7. One of the things that the IHRA...

Racing Junk Find: A Gorgeous 1964 Pontiac Catalina with Tri-Power 421 Power

Early 1960s Pontiacs have a class all their own. In their time, not much was capable of hanging with them on the strip. The 421ci Super Duty engine was legend and having a street car sporting that...

Barnstormin’: A Pre-Christmas Brain Cleanse

I’ll let you know right up front that this will probably be the most disjointed column you’ve ever read with about half of it having anything to do with cars, trucks, tractors, or...

Car Feature Re-Run: 10-second, Pump Gas, Big-Block Chevy Powered 1970 Buick Skylark

Throw your nitrous away and leave your turbo at the door. Tom Spinella’s 1970 Buick, powered by a 489ci big-block Chevy, cruises at 65 mph and nearly runs 9s on 93 octane straight out of the...

Last Minute BangShift Chistmas Must Have: Pro Stock Drag Racing Photo History by Lou Hart

Lou Hart has released some awesome drag racing photo collection books over the course of the last several years, but nothing has come close to this amazing opus to the class of Pro Stock. Pro Stock...

Bangshift Question of the Day: Do You Have a Favorite Old School Monster Truck

There’s been a resurgence in old school monster trucks recently. So much so that there is an effort to open an international monster truck museum and hall of fame celebrating the...

Odd Vintage Stunt Video: Jim Bullet Bailey at OCIR Circa 1981

Unlike Captain Jack McClure, stuntman Jim “Bullet” Bailey is 100% dead. But that’s jumping ahead. Bailey gained some level of fame in the 1970s and (very) early 1980s by becoming a...

Chrysler Registers the Word Cuda as a Trademark, We Dunno Why

The website AllPar.com, known for being 100% Par and free of any artificial fillers is reporting that the Chrysler Corporation has registered the word “Cuda” as an official trademark....

Epic eBay Find: A Modern DUKW Made From Either an H1, H2, or Mercedes G55!

Greatest….body kit….ever! This is an H20 ASPT Ocean Rover, not a vintage military DUKW amphibious vehicle. According to the eBay ad, these can be made from a Hummer H1, H2, or Mercedes...