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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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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

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

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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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our Final Day 1 Racing Gallery from 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: Even More Drag Action from Saturday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

On Saturday night after the Cackle Fest at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion, the BangShift.com crew was so wrecked from producing the live feed all day that we did not upload all of our photos. We...

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...