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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Race of Kings Is Today! The Biggest And Baddest Machines Of King Of The Hammers Are Racing LIVE Today Right Here!

This is it, the biggest and baddest of the bad attacking the rocks, sand, and dirt at Johnson Valley’s King of the Hammers! This is what all the week leads up to and is what many say is the...

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Sick Week 2026 Video With KSR and Alex Taylor Racing: 370 Miles And Then Rain Was Not How This Stop Was Supposed To Go!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 3 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are...

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Sick Week Day 3 Video: The Fast Cars Got a Surprise on Day 3 of Sick Week – Rain Delays And 40 MPH Winds!

After a long drive that really put everyone’s street manners to the test, Day 3 at Bradenton Motorsports Park was a wet and windy one. I know that lots of folks were excited about Sick Week...

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Sick Week 2026 Video Coverage: Drag, Drive, Repeat’s FULL Day 2 Video Coverage Is Right Here! All The Action!

The Drag, Drive, Repeat crew are in the house and ready to rock and roll through the rest of Sick Week 2026. And while we already shared their Day 2 points special, this video here is one that shows...

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Sick Week Drive Day Video: 370 Street Miles Prove Too Much For Some Racers And Brings More Bad News

370 miles is a real drive, and apparenlty more than a few of these racers could handle during Sick Week 2026. The drive from South Georgia all the way to Bradenton is a real drive and sometimes...

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Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Saturday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Today was major Funny Car day at the 18th California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Auto Club of Southern California. They had 30 floppers in the show, plus a huge pack of Gassers, Altereds, Top...

Photo Gallery: Giant Cackle Fest at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

A couple years ago if you told us that people would fill the grandstands just to see a dragsters fire up and idle, we’d have called BS. We would have been way wrong. The Cackle Fest events,...

Photo Gallery: Saturday Car Show and Pits at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Saturday at the Hot Rod Reunion is the big day, with more show cars, more action in the pits, and more spectators than any other day. On Friday we covered most of the show cars, but there were so...

Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Nostalgia car shows are great and everything, but one of the best things about the California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Auto Club of Southern California, is that dudes are out there actually...

Photo Gallery: 200 Pics of the Car Show Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

It’s not just that the California Hot Rod Reunion has awesome nostalgia drag racing. The event also has a huge car show held in The Grove, the area just behind the grandstands at Auto Club...

Photo Gallery: Historic Drag Cars from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

BangShift.com will be on site all weekend long to bring you coverage of the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California. We had live streaming video all...

Photo Gallery: Action in the Pits from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

While Auto Club Famoso Raceway has lots of action on the quarter mile, it’s also famous for a great time in the pits, especially during events like the California Hot Rod Reunion. Perhaps...

Photo Gallery: The Swap Meet on Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

If we had any money we would have been really dangerous at the swap meet held at the top end of the drag strip at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion. I got a set of old license plates last year, but...

Photo Tour: Inside the NHRA Motorsports Museum

The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum produces the California Hot Rod Reunion vintage drag race event that BangShift.com will be covering with live video the weekend of October 16-18, 2009, so the...

Event Coverage: 2009 Hershey AACA Car Show & Swap Meet

BangShift.com forum member Joe Grippo has contributed yet another bunch of photos, these from the massive Antique Automobile Club of America event held every fall in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Joe...

2009 Hot Rod Drag Week Wrapup

OK, so it’s like weeks after the end of the 2009 Hot Rod Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors. After covering the race for a solid week, I’ve almost caught up on sleep. Probably not. But...

Event Coverage: 2009 Jax Wax Show and Shine, Michigan

BangShift.com member Joe (Joe Lopez) gave us a photo gallery of the 2009 Jax Wax show and shine held October 9 at the Dawg House Restaraunt in Clinton Township, Michigan. There seems to have been a...

Carnage Video: 13 Crashes in 13 Months as Trucks Smash Themselves Topless Under a Low Bridge

There exists a rail road trestle in Durham, North Carolina. Said trestle only has 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance. Lots of trucks are 12 feet high and taller, so this presents a large problem. The...

Meet the Record Holding Infidel Streamliner: 330 MPH With a Cadillac Engine

Boys and girls, say hello to the record holding AA/BGS (Blown Gas Streamliner) Infidel streamliner run by the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. It’s powered by a twin-turbocharged 529ci...