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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Gallery: Saturday Car Show and Pit Action from the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Saturday is the biggest day for both racers and car show participants at the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With car show awards being handed out and final...

Gallery: Wild Drag Strip Photos from Saturday at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

On Saturday morning there were hundreds of hopeful drag racers in the pits awaiting their shot a glory when eliminations rolled around at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling...

Gallery: Header Flames at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Cacklefest

The highlight of every NHRA Hot Rod Reunion is the Saturday night Cacklefest. A living history tour of significant and cool drag race iron, the Cacklefest brings old nitro, gas, and alcohol burners...

Gallery: Hemi Car Wheelie Action from the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Charlie Westcott Jr vanquished the field at the Mopar Hemi Challenge, contested at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. His infamous “War Fish” 1968 Plymouth Barracuda managed...

Event Coverage: 1,000 Photos from Friday at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Friday at the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion was hot as hell and the action on the track was equally as intense. The car show area was packed wall to wall with early arrivals to the action as...

UPDATE: BangShift.com to Provide Wall to Wall coverage of the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

BangShift.com will be on-site for all the action at the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Our crack team of photographers will be on hand June...

Historic Drag Video: Door Slammer Action from Hallsville Drag Strip in the 1970’s

This vintage drag racing video takes us to Texas in the 1970s. The race is being held at Hallsville Drag Strip, which is still under operation but now called Hallsville Dragway. As you’d...

Retro Galleries: Revisiting our 2009 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Galleries

We’re gearing up for the BangShift.com visit to this weekend’s 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, so to get your juices flowing we thought that we’d throw our collection of...

Ford Introduces Mustang Model Aimed at Drifting Crowd

Of all the special versions of the Ford Mustang that have come and gone over the years, none have been aimed at the drifting demographic. Ford has decided to fix that with the introduction of the...

Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Dodge Daytona in the A2 Wind Tunnel

Gary and Pam Beineke’s series of 1971 Chrysler wing cars are all based on early 1970s Chrysler documents that showed the company had tested scale models of aero ’71 cars in the wind...

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CraigsList Find: A Crazy T-Bucket Dragster Rod

Of all the wacky junk we have ever seen for sale on Craigslist, this “1921 Ford T-Bucket Dragster” that’s for sale in California may take the cake. The seller seems to be indicating...

Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

The dudes over at Motor Trend are reporting that high level GM executives are thinking about pulling the 4.5L diesel, dubbed the “mini-Duramax,” off the shelf and offering it as an option...

Historic Drag Video: Gassers at Indy in the Late 1960’s

After finding the killer gasser-style truck this morning we decided to go on a YouTube trolling mission for good vintage gasser footage. We found some neat stuff that was shot at Indy during the US...

So-Cal Racing Heavy Les Richter Passes at 79

Les Richter, the man who led Riverside Raceway and later oversaw the development and operation of California Speedway in Fontana, California, has died. He was 79 years old. Before getting into the...