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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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Event Gallery: The 5th Annual Goodguys Nashville Nationals

Chad Reynolds, the bearded half of the BangShift.com brotherhood, was at the 5th Annual Goodguys Nashville Nationals, a massive car show held at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans football team....

Barnstormin’: It’s All Fun and Games Until…Smash!

I left the house on Sunday afternoon in a bit of a rush. After failing to heed my wife’s order of refilling our propane tank for the gas grill, the thing ran out half way through making dinner....

Gallery: Killer Rides From a Pennsylvania Sonic Cruise Night

Our East Coast photo contributor Joe Grippo was at it again last weekend, hitting up a weekly cruise at a local Sonic Drive-In in Pennsylvanis and shooting a ton of great photos. The great thing...

Event Coverage: The 2010 George Barris Culver City Car Show

The 8th Annual George Barris Culver City Car Show was a smashing success by all accounts. There were hundreds of cars, thousands of people, typically bad ass SoCal weather, and everyone seemed to be...

The Parting Shift: Grabbin’ Gears in a Mustang at Atco

This week’s Parting Shift takes us to Atco Raceway in New Jersey for some good old fashioned four-speed abuse. The Mustang featured in this video sure seems like a runner as it takes no time at...

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Fast With Class Lives: Buick Regal GS to Be Produced By GM, Maybe With a Turbo and 6-Speed

Good news coming from the Buick division of General Motors. A high performance version of the new Regal, appropriately dubbed the GS, will be available for purchase. Details of its release, final...

Cool Drag Racing Video: The History of Funny Cars as Narrated by Steve Evans

Any drag racing video that features the dulcet tones of Steve Evans is automatically awesome in our book. If you combined the pipes of Evans and a fun subject like the evolution of funny cars you...

Caption this Photo: Whoopsie-Doodle

We got this photo in an e-mail and immediately started asking ourselves how the hell the Mercury Cougar managed to turn the old Honda on its side and climb on up. The Cougar is a RWD car so...

Crazy Truck Video: Massive 8×8 Trials Competition From Czechoslovakia

Who knew such craziness existed in the Czech Republic? This video of giant trucks battling in an extreme off road competition is great. Seeing what an 8×8 truck powered by a big turbo-diesel...

Craigslist Find: A Snotty, Ratty VW Bug

Nothing inspires buyer confidence like poorly lit nighttime shots of a black car. By our estimation this VW Bug is one ugly son of a gun, but by the list of mechanical parts that appear to make up...

It’s Over: Judge Drops Jeremy Mayfield’s Case Against NASCAR

Jeremy Mayfield’s case against NASCAR was dealt a potential death blow on May 18, when US District Judge Graham Mullen dismissed all claims against NASCAR brought on by Mayfield stemming from...

Fantastic Vintage Drag Video: Garlits, The Greek, The Snake, Muldowney, Trophy Girls and Nitro

This video carries the ambitious title, “The History of Drag Racing.” At only three and a half minutes, the history is a bit truncated, but the footage used in the film is some of the...

Is the AHRA Dead (Again)?

It seems that the strange and bumpy road the American Hot Rod Association revival has been on may have led off a cliff. The first race of the season, held at Desert Thunder Raceway in Midland, Texas,...

Boss 302 Mustang Confirmed, Could Be a 2011 or 2012 Model

Rumors of a street-legal Boss 302 Mustang have been circulating for months and they really kicked into high gear when GM made the announcement that a Camaro Z28 is in the pipeline. Details are still...