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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: Here Are The NSRA Nostalgia Nationals 2026 LIVE From Santa Pod!

Santa Pod’s National Street Rod Association Nostalgia Nationals are live right here! And thanks to the awesome streaming team at Santa Pod, you can watch live from all over the world for free. You...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert

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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Our 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Keep Coming! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

Here’s gallery #3, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park...

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FREE LIVE IMSA RACING FROM WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA! Michelin Pilot Challenge, Mustang Challenge, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, And More!

Here we go. The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series is visiting Laguna Seca, one of the most famous race tracks in the country! We’re talking the Michelin Pilot...

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Road Racing Livestream From Croft In The UK: The British Automobile Racing Club At Croft Circuit LIVE May 2-3

It’s time for more road racing in Croft! This weekend has the British Automobile Racing Club back at it again with fun racing action at Croft Circuit just outside of Darlington in the Northern UK....

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FREE LIVESTREAM: GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 2026 At Brands Hatch

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here from the UK! We dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to...

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Project Car: Complete Buildup Photos of the First F.A.S.T. Mopar in the 10s

Regular readers got to know BangShift.com member Joel Nystrum several weeks ago when we had a video of him powershifting his 30,000-mile original Hemi GTX on an 11-second pass. That was one 1967...

The 75 Best Photos of Girls With Cars

The BangShift.com forum post called “Ladies Posing With Cars…” is the most-viewed thread ever. It now has hundreds of photos of women with cars. Far more people view that thread...

Photo Gallery: Donut Derelicts Cruise, January 2010

Back in 1986 a few buddies started getting together with their hot rods on Saturday mornings in Huntington Beach, California. Over the years, this weekly gathering of cool rods, muscle cars, trucks,...

Video: Camaro Outruns BMW in Insane Swedish Snow Race

This is one of the best races known to man. It happens in Sweden, where BangShift.com member Gasfot Sweden races his beater second-generation Camaro in events that are like road races or...

The Tale of the Hot Rod Murder Case in 1949

The St. Petersburg Times in Florida has posted on its web site a story written recently by the reporter who was on the beat way back in 1949 when a hot rod was used to identify the murderer of a...

Vintage Drag Video: Legendary American Racers Running at Santa Pod Raceway in England

Santa Pod Raceway in England opened up as the first permanent drag racing venue in Europe on Easter, 1966. It has been going strong ever since as the awesome video we have unearthed proves. It was...

Gallery: Great Historic Car Photos from the Library of Congress

As it turns out, you can get free stuff from the government. In this case, that something is a bunch of great old historic photos that are available through the Library of Congress. We spent many...

GM Offloading Pontiacs and Saturns at Near Fire Sale Prices

GM is doing everything in its power to get all the remaining Saturn and Pontiac models left on dealer lots sold. There are currently insane discounts being offered up to dealers so that they’ll...

Hot Rod Magazine Challenges Show Cars to Drive on Power Tour 2010

It seems like a good new year’s resolution to decide to drive your car instead of just polishing it. The guys at Hot Rod magazine are trying to push show-car owners in that direction with a new...

Totally Bitchin’ Video: 1952 Hot Rodding Propaganda Film Starring Santa Ana Drags and El Mirage Dry Lake

Here’s a neat film from 1952 that tells the story of Mel, a street speeder who gets a ticket, then loses the girl when he tries to recover his manhood by racing a jalopy, and loses, at CJ...

BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!

Out with the old and in with the new! It’s now 2010, and since we have a digital lampshade on our head right about now and don’t have a way to share the occasion with you personally, we...

Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!

In an amazing showing of bowling-ball sized stones, 26-year-old Travis Pastrana set the world record for a rally car jump on New Year’s Eve, flying his Subaru 269 feet over water and landing on...

Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California

Travis Pastrana has done so much bat-poop crazy stuff with cars that it reminds us that we should do a video compilation of it all. Until then, watch ESPN tonight to see if he succeeded with this...

Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965

It was very good to be Carroll Shelby in 1965. Hell, it is very good to be him now, but in the mid 1960s the man had the world by the stones. Bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company, Shelby was building...