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

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 – Thursday

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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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

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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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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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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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Car Feature: The (Formerly) Hack Job General Lee

If Cooter Davenport had the budget and parts, this is the General Lee he would have built for the Duke boys. He would have started with an old wreck and pieced the car together until he had a...

The Parting Shift: A 1959 Chevy Bel Air Packing 283-cubes and Three on the Tree (w/OD)

This week’s parting shift isn’t violent, exceptionally powerful, or overly complex. Instead it is just plain cool. This video features a very nice 1959 Chevy Bel Air with a 283 Power Pack...

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Another Flying Nova Sequence From Action Racing Photos!

Denis LeBlanc, our pal from ActionRacingPhotos.com sent us another awesome action sequence from New England Dragway. Like the last one, it features a Chevy Nova headed sky high and this is...

Chicago-Area Junkyard Owner Passes, Makes Final Ride on Back of Ramp Truck

46 year-old Michael Wolff owned and operated MAW Salvage in Brighton, Illinois with his sons. Sadly, he passed away suddenly from a thoracic aneurysm. His sons, Nathan, Tom, and Paulie decided that...

The Tiger Cage gets Certified!!!

We’re proud to announce that Ridetech’s Tiger Cage has just received its first Sanctioning Body Certification! The boys at Ridetech have been working diligently to certify their...

Former Craig Breedlove/ Steve Fossett LSR Racer Up for Sale

The forgotten sister in the race to the first supersonic car is up for sale. Thrust SSC, the creation helmed by Brit Richard Noble and driven by Andy Green claimed the title and the glory, while the...

100-Plus Photos of Amateur Girls Next Door With Cars

Guys love photos of girls with cars, women with hot rods, hotties with muscle cars, whatever. We know because the BangShift.com forum post called “Ladies Posing With Cars…” is the...

Crews Thrashing to Fix Massive Sinkhole at Charlotte Motor Speedway Before Race Weekend

A massive sinkhole has swallowed part of the infield at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is slated to host a NASCAR race on October 16th. An old drainage pipe, buried some 35 feet below the surface,...

Caption This Photo: I Told You to Turn Right!

Imagine yourself on an trip across the Arctic, or perhaps the Antarctic in an old Snow Cat truck. There are about a million and one variables involved, all of which could potentially kill you....

Huge Collection of Photos from the Traditional Rod and Kulture Jalopy Showdown Drags at Beaver Springs

The Traditional Rod and Kulture Jalopy Showdown Drags happed at the ultra cool Beaver Springs Dragway in Beaverton, Pennsylvania, on October 2. The race obviously featured lots of traditional hot...

Pedalfest Video: Two Pro Fuel Dragsters Smoke the Hides and Get Crazy

The IHRA’s Pro Fuel class has provided some great action at the sanctioning body’s Nitro Jam events. The class features injected, nitromethane burning dragsters that are allowed more fuel...

RacingJunk Find: A Cool (and Cheap) 1973 Ford Pinto V8

Ah, the Ford Pinto. Derided in its time as an underpowered rolling dose of Napalm, the venerable Pinto now enjoys cult status as a good start for a hot rod project. They were kind of weird looking in...

Cool Project Thread: Tearing Down an Air Cooled Stroker VW Motor

BangShift member Stiney has a bunch of cool stuff lurking in his barn, including a Fox-bodied Mustang with a 500ci Cadillac engine in it. His real affliction though, seems to be VWs of the air-cooled...

Vintage Chase Footage From the Film That Birthed the Dukes of Hazzard

Lots of people don’t know that the Dukes of Hazzard television series was inspired by the 1975 movie Moonrunners. In the movie, two cousins run moonshine for their uncle Jesse, while narrator...

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