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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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World’s Smallest Procharger Supercharger

Earlier today we wrote about the new ShockWave air suspension for UTVs, and we started wondering if there was anything actually cool that can be done with one of those glorified riding lawn mowers....

Video Bonanza: Burnout Fail! (You’re Doing it Wrong)

After posting the tire explosion video earlier today, we were in the mood to find more videos of burnout related failures. As it turns out, searching for “tire explosion” on YouTube...

The History of the Detroit Autorama and the Ridler Award

The famous Detroit Autorama is coming soon to Cobo Hall on February 26-28, and BangShift Chad will be there to bring you the action. The Autorama is legendary today as a leading indoor car show, but...

Video: Ridetech Now Thrashes on UTV Suspension, Too

Our friends at BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech are always up for a good time, and “good time” at home base in Jasper, Indiana, usually means thrashing on new products and taking fun video...

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Caption this photo: Under Pressure

We’ll be the first to admit that this is a weird photo. In fact, we’d rank it as one of the weirdest ones we’ve taken, but it is ripe for awesome captions. This isn’t a...

New Pro Touring Competition, Run to the Coast at El Toro, California, sponsored by Ridetech

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational held right after SEMA is really kicking up the action in the world of Pro Touring fans who really like to beat on their cars. Bill Howell is a guy who...

A Site Worth Seeing: Texas Drag History and More

Once in a while when we are digging for news on the web we stumble into a great web site that makes us lose track of time for an hour or so. If we’re so dragged into the site, we figure that...

Photo Gallery: The February Long Beach Swap Meet Car Corral

It takes a lot to get us moving on a weekend morning before the sun begins to rise, but the legendary Long Beach Swap Meet is totally worth the effort. While BangShifters in most other parts of the...

Carnage Video: Camaro Ripped Open Like a Tin Can by a Tire Explosion

Imagine you innocently enter a sanctioned burnout contest and end up totalling your third-gen Camaro without ever moving an inch. That’s what happened to this guy, and his car suffered the most...

Barnstormin’: Mental Notes Just Shy of My 30th Birthday

Well, I’m facing down the reality that my 20’s are fast drawing to a close. In a day or so I’ll officially be 30 years old. That’s a fact that strikes me as both a little...

More Good Stuff From Be Cool: Be Coolant, Super Duty Antifreeze

After telling you about the new radiator that adds another piece to an already full product line we knew we had to pass along the information about Be Cool’s new Be Coolant, which is designed...

New Parts: Killer New 2005-2010 Mustang Radiator from Be Cool

As more and more hot rodders start wrenching more power out of late model Mustangs, the limitations of factory parts are becoming apparent. One of those weak links in the chain is the factory cooling...

Killer Video: Stacey David Tools on the Cherry Bomb Dodge Truck

We’re envious of the guys over at Cherry Bomb. First they unveil the kick ass “Disturbing the Peace” Camaro project renderings, and then they drop their newest TV spot on us. It...

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Ford to Lay off 900 at Mustang Plant; Camaro and Slow Sales are to Blame

Ford plans to cut 900 jobs from its Flat Rock, Michigan, assembly plant soon. The cuts come on the heels of a tough sales year for the Mustang, which saw volume drop 27% amid competition from the...