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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Qualifying Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Testing Video: Chaos SuperNationals Testing at Summit Motorsports Park. Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds, and More!

The Chaos Series has been going hot and heavy so far this season, and with lots more racing left there are a lot of teams out there battling it out for points. And the competition is getting tougher,...

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Cool New Product: Auburn Gear’s ECTED MAX Trick Selectable Locker

Off road guys have been beating the crap out of selectable lockers for many years now. With the ability to cruise around on an open differential while on road and then having the awesome traction of...

Dates for 2011 NHRA National and California Hot Rod Reunions Announced

We loves us some nostalgia drag racing here at BangShift.com and two of our very favorite events are the NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Tony, Greg and the...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Gorgeous 1938 Lincoln With a Custom Coach Body

If you dig past our love of monster trucks, weed whacker pulling tractors, header flames, and wheelstanders, you’ll also see that we’re suckers for the elegant machines that wealthy folks...

Great Read: How Ford Got Their Mojo Workin’

The story of how Ford dragged itself out of a death spiral and back to being profitable will fill the text books of business schools for decades to come. At base, it really seems simple. Design...

Cool New Product: New ’40 Ford Bodies From Drake Reproductions

The 1940 Ford is a totally iconic car in the world of hot rodding. From the era of the bootlegger running ‘shine through the back woods with a muscled up flattie to the gasser era at drag...

Incredible Wreck Video: In Car With Danny Thompson When His Mustang Flies at 260mph!

This is some amazing footage. We’re riding along with Danny Thompson in his Mustang as he hauls the mail down the Bonneville Salt Flats. Things are going along really well until he crests...

SEMA 2010: The Ugly, the Bad and the Totally Tasteless

As we finally begin to run out of photos and stuff related to the 2010 SEMA show, we thought that showing you the underbelly of the experience was necessary. For every totally bitchin’ car at...

Racing Junk Find: The Craziest Freaking Project We Have Ever Seen

We were happily searching RacingJunk recently when we navigated into the exhibition drag racing vehicle section. We expected a jet car, wheelstander, or some other vehicle along those lines. Instead...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s More Fun?

We’ve been thinking of something since we departed Las Vegas last week. The question that has been running through our feeble mind is pretty basic. It actually cuts right down to the core of...

Barnstormin’: My Top 10 Favorite Cars and Trucks from SEMA 2010

With about a week to reflect on it and literally thousands of photos to pile through, I thought it would be a peachy time to glue together my top 10 favorite vehicles from the 2010 SEMA show. It...

Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard

Since you’ve just checked out the gallery dedicated to the residents at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor, NJ, we thought that we should show you the other 250 photos from the 2010...

Junkyard Gallery: A Look at Fleming’s Junkyard in New Jersey

Intrepid BangShift photo contributor Joe Grippo recently attended the infamous Pumpkin Run car show which takes place in the totally awesome Fleming’s Junkyard located in Egg Harbor, NJ. He...

BangShift Book Review: Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers

If you are a fan or collector of old car magazines, this is one that needs to hit your shelf in a hurry. Hot Rod: All the Covers by Drew Hardin and the editors of Hot Rod Magazine tells the tale of...

SEMA 2010 Question: Crazy or Cool?

Would you buy or build your kid a half scale monster truck? While junior dragsters, quarter midgets, and small racing karts have a cute factor, this Baby Huey has a fright factor. As you can see by...