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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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BangShift Gallery: A Tour of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum

One of the primary reasons that the NHRA Heritage Series and the great Hot Rod Reunions exist is for the benefit of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Pomona, California, on the same...

Retro Gallery: Cacklefest Action From the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

With the BangShift.com streaming broadcast of the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion set to kick off tomorrow morning, we’re going to get you in the mood with a barrage of nostalgia drag...

Wild Video: The 2010 World Power Wheel Standing Championship From Byron Dragway

The 16th annual World Power Wheel Standing Championship is in the books. The brain child of Byron Dragway owner/operator Ron Leek, the contest has grown from small freak show to massive drag racing...

The Restored NASCAR 1965 Impala is on eBay for $75K

One of our favorite restoration projects, the Roy Mayne 1965 NASCAR Impala, is for sale on eBay again, and this time it has been restored. The asking price is $75,000 and we don’t think...

Great Americana Read: How to Build a Demo Derby Combine

The destructive delight of Combine demolition derbies have been highlighted on the electronic pages of BangShift before. The huge, lumbering machines make wicked noise when they collide, and seeing a...

Video Bonanza: Altered Wheelbase Freaks on the Streets!

Altered wheelbase cars are some of the most romanticized in drag racing history. They represent one of the earliest evolutionary stages of what we now know as Funny Cars, and for their short time in...

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Event Gallery: The Fall Carlisle Car Show and Swap Meet

Joe Grippo, our prolific Pennsylvanian photo contributor, shared a great batch of photos from the Fall Carlisle Collector Car Show and Swap Meet. Joe went hunting for the odd and interesting this...

Auto Trader Classics Find: An Optimistically Priced 1948 Ford F1 Truck

Sometimes these find us. More honestly, they fly right off the screen, slap us, and dare us not to show them to the world. This 1948 F1 Ford truck did just that, and we’re happily obliging it....

Crane Cams Introduces 350-plus New Camshafts for 2011

Don’t call it a comeback. Crane Cams has announced that their engineers have developed more than 350 new camshaft profiles for 2011. There are applications for virtually everything across the...

Diesel Power Video: A One-Off 24 Cylinder Detroit That Makes Nearly 3,000 hp

Two-stroke Detroit Diesel engines are neat and in their many configurations they have provided reliable grunt for decades in hundreds of applications. The mighty sixteen cylinder examples were the...

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Punching Back: Detroit Automakers Gain Domestic Market Share

Like a woozy boxer snapping to after whiffing the smelling salts, the Detroit car companies have made gains against their foreign competitors and actually (gasp!) gained domestic market share in what...

Twin-Engine Digger Video: A Retro-Awesome Slick Destroying Machine

The age of the twin-engine dragster has long passed. Sadly, there are very few exhibition runners out there to show the drag fans of today, just how bad ass they were. This video was shot at Beaver...

Hero in Bulldozer Saves 32 Houses During Forest Fire

People react differently when placed in life or death situations. Some panic and run, but others bare down, focus, and put fear aside to get the job done. Luckily, for homeowners in Herriman, Utah,...

eBay Find: A Killer 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista Hardtop

We were in a classic Pontiac kind of mood while cruising eBay recently and due to that we located one of the neatest and oddest Poncho performers we’ve ever seen. This is a 1960 Pontiac...