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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Action Sequence of a Dragster Crashing and a Camera Getting Creamed

Every time we go to a big race at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield we remember to check the blog page of Mark Rebilas a few days later. The guy is an amazing photographer and always comes home with...

Nelson Racing unveils 2000 Horsepower Twin Turbo Supercar #004

If 572 cubic inches of twin-turbo Big Block Chevrolet making 2000 horsepower doesn’t excite you, you should be checked for a pulse. And if having all that power stuffed into a sinister black...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

The Nitrous Express Duramax Diesel Mustang Goes 205 at the Texas Mile!

The Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week class winning, Nitrous Express DuraMax Diesel powered SN95 Mustang ran 205 miles per hour this past weekend at the Texas Mile Land Speed Event to become the National...

SEMA Sneak Peek Video of GM’s SEMA 2010 Display Vehicles

GM has let us have a sneak peek at some of the cars and trucks debuting at SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week, and lucky for us it’s on video. BangShift.com will be at SEMA all week to bring you...

Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video

If you are going to be in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area this weekend, you are going to want to keep your Friday night open for the Detroit Speed Open House and BBQ. Just a hop, skip, and a jump...

MORE: MISC, Videos

eBay Find: A Real Deal Steel 1948 Austin Gasser

If you’re in the market for a gasser project, we’ve found the perfect starting place for you. This 1948 Austin is a legit gasser built in the 1960s by a group of buddies in California and...

The Antique Automobile Club of America Museum

Joe Grippo’s photo galleries from Hershey, Pennsylvania, have covered every facet of the automotive hobby, and we are blown away by the shear number of cars that were on hand at the famed...

Event Coverage: Lehigh Valley Regional Shelby American Automobile Club

The Shelby American Automobile Club holds shows all over the country and the world, but when they decided to hold a “Mini Meet” at the site of the 2010 AACA Hershey Show, Joe Grippo...

SEMA 2010 Sneak Peek: Mopar brings the heat

Chrysler announced today that they are bringing horsepower, and plenty of it, to SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week. Were you expecting Fiats with little engines? It wouldn’t have surprised us...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Super Cool 1958 Chevy Apache Kustom

Kustoms tend to split people right down the middle of love and hate. We’re not particularly cultured in the tastes and trends of todays kustom realm, but this truck really turns our crank. Done...

Shop Tour: We visit with Ridetech in Jasper Indiana

Everybody knows the name Ridetech, manufacturers of some of the finest suspension systems on the market, but most of you have never gotten the chance to visit them at their headquarters and...

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme vs. Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. It’s Match Race Madness

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen have one of the fiercest and well publicized rivalries in racing history. And while Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and...

Event Coverage: 643 Photos from the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania

As BangShifter Joe Grippo put it, the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania is one of the most eclectic and diverse car shows around. From Hemi ‘Cudas to Duesenbergs, you’ll see it...

BangShift Approved: The Santa Ana Drags 1950-1959

The grass on the other side of the fence, drag racing days gone by, and pre smog years are just some of the things we humans, and hot rodders always seem to long for. And so in the spirit of those...