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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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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 In Car Video! Watch The 500 LIVE From In The Cars AND Watch Practice and Qualifying Below As Well!

It’s time for the Indy 500! We have livestreaming video from Indianapolis Motor Speedway right here, plus tons of video from the weeks leading up to the race. Check it all out right here! THE...

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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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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! 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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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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Swiss Gov’t Study Shows Diesel Cars to be More “Green” Than Battery Powered Ones

The Swedish government recently completed a study that looked at the impact that Li-Ion batteries from electric cars have on the environment. The results of the study may not be a huge surprise to...

Get There: Lead East 2010 Happens This Weekend (W/Photo Gallery)

Lead East, the rollicking car show created by Terry Cook, and known as the “World’s Largest 50s Party,” is kicking off as you read this in Parsippany, New Jersey. The show is...

Killer Drag Video: An Interview With Nitro-Shoe Mendy Fry Circa 1987!

Mendy Fry is one of the most sought after nostalgia nitro pilots in the world today. She’s in the Nostalgia Top Fuel 250mph club, has run down into the 5.80s in a nostalgia nitro flopper, and...

Tech: The BangShift 700-R4 Rebuild Part 4

Jeff Bradley is back with the fourth installment of how to properly rebuild at 700-R4 transmission. This is literally a blow by blow, step by step account of how to replace every part in the...

Camaro Wrests Sales Lead Back From Mustang

Like a pair of heavyweight prize fighters trading blows, the Camaro and Mustang continue to fight for sales and performance supremacy here in America. According to the dudes at Camaro5.com, 6,321...

It Came From the Forums: Photo Coverage of the 2010 Frog Follies Pre-’49 Car Show

Indiana-based BangShift member Drew recently attended the Frog Follies car show in Evansville, Indiana. This event is billed as the largest pre-49 car show on Earth and draws more than 4,000 cars!...

Project Goliath Update: Piddly Projects, Plodding Progress

It has been too long since we brought you any information on progress with our 1966 C50 called Goliath. The main reason is that there hasn’t been too much sexy stuff happening. We’re at...

Video: The Shortest Jump in the Biggest Truck

Recently the story of a security guard beating on a brand new Corvette ZR-1 has been sweeping around the internet. Not surprisingly, the guy is being hailed as a dumbass for not only flogging the...

Camaro Makes European Racing Debut at Nurburgring, Runs Strong

The latest Chevy Camaro, which has been seeing action on American race tracks for some time now  recently started turning tires in European road racing action. The Dutch GT4 team, Equipe...

eBay Find: The World’s Most Awesome 1976 Mercury Comet

There were few more depressingly awful cars produced by Detroit in the mid-1970s than the wheezing, homely, 1976 Mercury Comet. It was a far cry from the hot little number that the Comet once was....

Killer Video: Plymouth Roadrunner Ads

Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be...

Question of the Week: What’s Your Most Trusty Mechanical Companion?

If you’re a gearhead, chances are that you surround yourself with different machines, tools, gadgets, and equipment. Some of that stuff has probably been around you for a while, rescued you...

Auto Trader Classics Find: Bob Tullius’s 1984 Jaguar IMSA GTP Racer

Bob Tullius is an American road racing legend. He competed in everything from the snappy little Dodge Darts he ran in the early days of Trans-Am to the infamous Grey Ghost LeMans and all kinds of...

Event Gallery: New England Dragway’s 2010 Dragin’ in the ’50s Show

We were in the mood to see some neato nostalgia drag racing recently, so we gave our wife the day off, loaded up the kiddos and headed to the local strip. Luckily for us, New England Dragway was...