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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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The Mario Andretti Story: Racing’s Most Versatile Driver? America’s Greatest American Racer? Watch

Mario Andretti was a household name when I was growing up watching him race at the Indy 500 and such. His career is insane, with more wins and championships than you can shake a stick at. But what...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 2 of 5 – His Bandit Trans Am Gets New Suspension Installed!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In the...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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Castroneves Tax Trial: Day Three of Deliberations

Helio Castroneves, the two-time Indy 500 champ and IndyCar racing standout, is on trial for allegedly hiding more than $5 million and not paying any taxes on it. It’s the third day of...

Site of the Week: Not Your Average Old Drag Racing Photos

Some collections of old racing photos rehash all the same old junk. Been there, done that, about 100 times. This one, however, brings it home hard for East Coast Super Stock and early Funny Car fans....

Maximum Motorsports Bolt-In Rollbars for New Mustangs

Have a new Mustang and want a roll bar but don’t want to hack up the interior of the car? No problem. Maximum Motorsports of San Luis Obispo, California, has constructed a bolt-in bar that is...

The Hack Job General Lee: Update, Light at the End of the Tunnel

It’s been a while since we updated you on the progress of the Hack Job General Lee, a car that looked great in online photos but that turned out to be one of the all-time greatest works of...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Golden Submarine

Barney Oldfield was one of the first guys we profiled in our Gearhead Guys You Should Know series. He drove all kinds of neat stuff, but the car that most people remember him by was the Harry Miller...

Book Review: Camaro, A Legend Reborn

Camaro: A Legend Reborn, by Larry Edsall, is inside baseball, a book for the true lover of the automotive industry and for someone who is a total nosy Nancy that needs to know every last detail of...

NASCAR Teams Spending $1 Million a Year to Develop Oil

We were tipped off to a story in the Wall Street Journal about the lengths that NASCAR teams are going to develop the oil in their race cars. Joe Gibbs Racing supposedly spends over $1 million a year...

The Lohnes Wreck Files: The Come-Backer

The most nightmarish accident scenario at the drag strip is a so-called “comebacker” or a car that is involved in a wreck, remains under power, and the driver is unable to stop it as it...

F-Bomb Camaro Clone from Fast and Furious Movie Sells for $27,500

Last week we reported that one of the clones of the F-Bomb Camaro from the new Fast and Furious movie was up for auction on eBay Motors. Well, that auction ended late yesterday. The winning bid was...

Barnstormin’: Are Computer Cars all Bad?

The travails with my wife’s steaming pile of human refuse daily driver are well documents on the forum portion of the website. It’s the worst car we’ve ever owned, and probably ever...

Event Coverage: 159 Photos from the 2009 Viva Las Vegas Car Show

As promised last week when we posted this gallery of 66 retro custom cars, BangShift.com spent Saturday in Las Vegas for the 12th Annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender. The event is now held at...

eBay Pick of the Week: The World’s Fastest Viper

Here’s a flat nasty piece of machinery. It’s the SVS Stryker Viper, with twin turbos, 1,500 hp, and actual, undisputed time-slips that back up the claim that this is the world’s...

Spectre Performance Truck and El Camino Stolen

This kind of stuff makes our blood boil. Our friends over at Spectre Performance have suffered the theft of not only a bitchin’ car, but also the truck used to haul it. Please read below for...

Monday Time Killer: DragList.com

This week’s time killer is one that transcends a single day. Bill Pratt started the drag list, way back in the day when the internet was just becoming a place to find all kinds of neat...