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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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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

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

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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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our Final Day 1 Racing Gallery from 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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Danica Patrick Blasts Indy Team, Fans Blast Back

Drivers complaining about the setup of their race cars is nothing new. In fact, we bet that the first Indy 500 was full of guys who blamed poor performance on their crew’s inability to get the...

Awesome Read Update: How American Open Wheel Racing Destroyed Itself: The Finale

The inside story of how open wheel racing in America essentially wrecked itself is incredibly riveting, especially when told from the inside out by legendary racing journalist Ed Hinton. We read the...

Rumor: Ford to End Mercury Brand

In what has to be the least shocking rumor regarding the closing of an automotive brand, Ford seem to be getting ready to close down Mercury for good. Making up only about 6% of Ford’s sales...

Craigslist Find: A Weirdo, Homebuilt, Mini Big-Rig

We swear that this stuff finds us. While piling through Craigslist ads in the Pittsburgh area, we found a listing for a truly unique truck. The concept is totally BangShift approved but the actual...

RacingJunk Find: The Baddest 1968 Road Runner Ever

If we told you that we found a Hemi powered Road Runner on RacingJunk.com, you’d shrug and move on. If we told you that Hemi was a 14-71 blown 496ci Keith Black engine, you’d stick...

LIFE Gallery: Neato Kiddie Cars From the Past

Old kiddie cars are cool. Today most vehicles for small children are of plastic construction and move around on power supplied from batteries. That was not the case back in the day, as cars were...

Roger Burgess Forms World-Wide Pro Mod Association, Creates 2011 World Challenge

Roger Burgess, the uber-wealthy and uber-enthusiastic Pro Mod supporter and racer, has formed the World Wide Pro Mod Association and has created an awesome World Challenge race that will be held in...

Crazy Flaming Carnage Video: 18-Wheeler T-Bones Dump Truck

We’ll start with the punchline. According to the Associated Press, neither driver in this massive collision was hurt. We cannot fathom how that is possible because the impact looks like someone...

Interesting Read: A Profile of Top Fuel Racer Antron Brown

For better or for worse, drag racing is the most accessible motorsport in the world. Anything with wheels can run down the strip for glory. While it’s true that top-level competitors need to be...

eBay Gurney-Driven Trans Am Mustang: Not All It Seems? Here’s The Rest of the Story

While all the automotive internet has been aflutter with the announcement of a restored “Dan Gurney” 1969 Mustang Trans-Am racer for sale on eBay, we’ve been scratching our heads a...

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)...