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

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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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

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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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at 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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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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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at 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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Photo Gallery: NHRA Museum Christmas Cruise Night

Say want you want about California, but our cruise season ends December 2nd with the Christmas Cruise at the NHRA Motorsports Museum and picks up again like 20 minutes later. BangShift member Newell...

The Parting Shift: A Reminder Why Actual Gearheads Prefer BangShift.com

Do any of you ever look at Jalopnik.com? It’s the web site where pseudo car guys write snarky blog items about stuff that pseudo car guys might care about. They get some good scoops on new cars...

Boring NASCAR Champ Not Looking Too Bad Right Now

With the recent disaster that has surrounded golfer Tiger Woods, columnist Jim Pedley at SportingNews.com has penned a piece about how Jimmy Johnson’s unassuming self isn’t such a bad...

Just Because: Original Dukes of Hazzard Bloopers

It’s hard to argue that the Dukes of Hazzard influenced every BangShifter one way or another, if only through today’s dire shortage of 1969 Chargers. Well, here’s a clip of Dukes as...

Not Bangshift Approved: The SoundRacer

We thought the fake turbo whistler tailpipe insert was the lamest thing we had ever seen. The good news for the people that make it is that they have been knocked off the top spot. The SoundRacer is...

Just When You Thought We Couldn’t Find a New Reason that Cash For Clunkers Sucks…

This dead horse just keeps kicking. The latest news on the effects of the colosal fail of Cash For Clunkers has been reported by Aftermarket News. It seems that another backfire of the program was...

Wall Street Journal Column Says GM Made the Right Move Ditching Henderson; Company Needs Culture War

Paul Ingrassia covered GM for the Wall Street Journal and earned a Pulitzer Prize for the work he did on the subject. Ingrassia has a book coming out in the near future, and yesterday he wrote a...

Massive Online Savings at Edelbrock.com

Claiming “Holiday Saving Time,” Edelbrock.com is having a blowout sale with some truly significant deals. There are diesel exhaust systems that have been whacked down under $100 and...

Not Bangshift Approved: Worst Gearhead Gift Idea List Ever

Click here to see a non-car-guy’s view of what car guys want for Christmas. The only beneficial function of this list would be to use it as a “stuff I do NOT want for...

Wild Video: Suzuki Submarine

The Suzuki Samurai was a much maligned little 4×4 back when Consumer Reports got one to “roll” on its test course. Turns out that the little bastards are great off-road trucks with...

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Great Read: How a New York Foundry Came Together and Saved Itself

Oberdorfer LLC is a 134-year-old foundry located in DeWitt, New York. Like all other business in the manufacturing sector, it have been hit very hard by today’s economic woes. The company was...

MSD Ignition Store Now Online

BangShift.com sponsor MSD Ignition is reminding you about its online store where 1,000s of part numbers are available to purchase instantly. Lots of those part numbers are for T-shirts and hats and...

Hang ‘Em High: Arsonist Destroys British 1950’s Museum Full of Cars

These are the stories that make our blood boil. The BBC is reporting that a 46 year old man was arrested after a fire ripped through a 1950s museum in Denbighshire, England. The museum had a large...

Breaking News: GM’s Bob Lutz to be Reassigned

Minutes ago it was announced that Bob Lutz, along with several other high-level executives within General Motors will be “reassigned” to new positions today. The official announcement...