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A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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Felix Rosenquist And David Malukas Battle For The Closest Finish In Indy 500 History! Watch The Finish And Race Highlights Right Here!

If you didn’t catch the entire Indy 500 on TV yesterday, you missed some drama for sure. With rain effecting the race, but officials, fans and racers sticking it out, there was no shortage of...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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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...

Australian Cops are Confiscating Cars at a Record Pace

Police in the city of Werribee in Australia have confiscated more than 60 cars in the last nine months due to driving violations. We’ve blogged before about the stringent road laws down under,...

Can Racing Go Green?

We ran across an interesting editorial at Just-Auto.com that looks at how racing is starting to adopt some “green” tendencies and how the increased demand and awareness of hybrids and...

Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn’t Be Mocked

The recent arrest of JC France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., has made for big conversation all across the Internet. As could be expected, most of the comments have not been all that...

Video of the Joyride Fail Du Jour: Kid Drives Daddy’s Porsche Off a Cliff

We caught wind of this wild story through our pals over at the CarDomain blog and we had to share it here. Yesterday it was the 15 year old kid getting his parent’s Blazer stuck in a mud hole....

Advice: Don’t Get Drunk and Steal an Ambulance

We’re on a joy ride kick with our blog items lately. So sue us. Some of these incidents are just too good to skip over. Take this one for example: A college kid in Kansas heads out for a night...