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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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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Event Galleries: Milan Dragway’s Heads Up Series and The 2009 Lonestar Rod and Kustom Roundup by MSD’s Todd Ryden

There are a multitude of reasons as to why our sponsors are the best in the industry. One of the biggest is because they’re gearheads to the core just like us, these guys and girls are at the...

It Came From the Forums: Turbo 400 Rebuild, Step by Step Photos

BangShift.com member Jeff Bradley, a professional transmission guy by trade, is currently rebuilding a Turbo 400 transmission for another of our forum members. Jeff has been cool enough to take...

Alrighty Then: Ray Evernham Marries Former Development Driver Erin Crocker; We Tie Mayfield In

Erin Crocker was a developmental driver for Ray Evernham Motorsports back between 2004 and 2007. She also became Evernham’s love interest during that time and last weekend the two were married....

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Clunkers Turning Office Workers Into Executioners

We’re still kind of stuck on Cash for Clunkers, and this NewsDay story is the reason why. Tons of cars have yet to be “killed” using the government’s mandated method of...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Ford F350 That Looks Stock But Pulls Lots

Lots of the diesel performance guys strut their stuff on the drag strip. We’re completely entertained by 7,000lb trucks that can outrun late-model Mustangs and totally humiliate most...

Breathing Fire: Jon Asher Aims the Heavy Guns at NHRA Brass

First it was Warren Johnson ripping NHRA management on the ESPN broadcast of the race from Maple Grove and now it is veteran drag racing journalist Jon Asher bringing out the heavy guns. Asher pulls...

Toyota Wins Cash for Clunkers Lottery, GM and Chrysler Flop

We have been biased, slanted, and openly opposed to the Cash for Clunkers program for any number of reasons. Be they the ass-backwards environmental claims by program champions, or the totally bogus...

Young Chase Austin’s Career in Flux after Punting Kyle Busch Out of a Race

We’re struggling with something after reading this Canadian Press story about Chase Austin and his wreck that took Kyle Busch out of competition at Bristol last weekend. It was Austin’s...

GM Owns Chinese Market; Tin Can Mini-Vans Leading the Way

As has been the trend for several years, GM’s Chinese interests are hauling tail with respect to production, market share, and profitability. It used to be that Buick was the flagship brand...

Just Wow: Stunning El Camino on eBay

First off we need to thank Kris for the tip on this. Well actually we shouldn’t thank him for the violent physical reaction we had after checking this eBay ad and looking at the pictures....

Video of the Week: Gixxer Kart Versus Hayabusa

We’re on a bit of a go-kart kick today as we spent yesterday reviving and thrashing a Craigslist find 5hp kart for a family member. That little devil was a hoot to terrorize the neighborhood...

Sudden Impact: 1969 GTO Judge Loses Fight With Pole

Wow. This is rough stuff. The car that is trying to eat that pole is a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge. We’re thinking that the driver did not walk away unscathed from this one. BangShift.com member...

Clunkbucket Does the Concours d’Lemons

Our pal Mike Bumbeck owns and operates Clunkbucket.com, a website that certainly does not waste time with mundane stuff. They live off the beaten path over there and it makes for some awesome reading...

Detroit Free Press to Muscle Car Fans: Don’t Panic

Call us nuts, but we were actually feeling pretty good after reading this piece from the Detroit Free Press. Writer Mark Phelan brings up some great points and actually clues us in on some existing...