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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Pebble Beach Concours 2010 to Feature Hot Rod Lakesters and Historic Bonneville Racers

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is probably the stuffiest car show in North America. A few years ago the organizers created a class for vintage hot rods and this year it has been announced...

AutoTrader Classics Find: A 1952 Dodge Power Wagon

There are few vehicles more ironic than the mighty Dodge Power Wagon. When we saw this awesome 1952 model for sale on AutoTraderClassics.com, we instantly fell in love. Not counting the original...

Event Coverage: MSD Ignition’s 6th Annual Company Car Show and Picnic

MSD Ignition hosted their 6th annual Company Car Show and Picnic and our company insider Todd Ryden sent us photos. The car count was great, and MSD staffers brought out everything you can imagine...

Indy Gallery: A BangShifter’s Guide To the 2010 Indy 500 Practice

The 2010 Indy 500 is slated to be run this weekend, and while we’re not exactly die hard Indy Car fans, we dig the hell out of cool racing photos. BangShift.com forum member IndyShiftMan (Jeff)...

BangShift.com’s exclusive Hot Rod Power Tour 2010 Coverage presented by Ridetech

We’re going on Hot Rod’s Power Tour 2010! And as you would expect, we are going to be bringing you the latest news, photos, and dirt bigger, faster, and cooler than anyone else on the...

BangShift and Ridetech present BBQ Bash 2010 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on June 8, 2010

We are proud to announce that Ridetech, in addition to being the presenting sponsor of BangShift.com’s 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour coverage, will be partnering with us to bring BBQ to the Bowling...

Power Tour Prep: The Definitive Road Trip Kit

With the Hot Rod Power Tour looming just around the corner and a bunch of dedicated BangShift.com readers and forum members preparing their junk for the long haul, we thought now would be the perfect...

Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton

Bobby Issac and Harry Hyde famously bombarded the Bonneville Salt Flats with a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona stock car in September of 1971. Chrysler had chopped its racing budget and the wing car was...

LIFE Gallery: Bizarro Automotive Concepts From the Past

People have been trying, since the inception of the automobile, to design a better automobile. Since we’re all still pretty much rolling around in glorified versions of the Model T, most of the...

The World’s Fastest Motorcycle is For Sale

The BUB Seven Streamliner is the world’s fastest motorcycle. It gained that title by hauling nearly 400 mph of ass at Bonneville in 2009 during a FIM and AMA sanctioned motorcycle land speed...

Event Gallery: Eagle Field Fresno Dragways Reunion

We missed a truly kick-ass event last weekend at Eagle Field in Firebaugh, California. Luckily, BangShift.com reader Jim Becker was on hand and brought his camera. He took some great shots of the...

Event Gallery: The 2010 Editors’ Challenge from Goodguys Orange County Get Together

Earlier this month at the Goodguys Orange County Get-Together (click here to see the BangShift.com show gallery), the organization hosted its annual Editors’ Challenge autocross. Our own Chad...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Kruise in Kemah, Texas

We’re bringing the gallery thunder today, and that’s because we have a kick-ass network of contributing photographers out there across the country delivering the goods. This collection of...

Vintage Ad: Car Prices that will make you laugh and cry

We were forwarded this awesome vintage advertisement for Best Chevrolet, a dealership that is still very much in business located in Hingham, Massachusetts. According to Jon Sandahl, the guy who sent...