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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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NHRA Photos: More Nitro Funny Cars From The NHRA Winternationals In July, At Pomona

(Photos by Wes Allison) It’s our second gallery of NHRA Nitro Funny Car photos, so check them all out right here! And if you missed any of our other galleries, click the link at the bottom to...

This Homemade Welding Fixture Table Is Awesome, And Includes Killer Storage For Your Garage

I’ve featured plenty of welding and fixture table builds here on the site, because I’m a welder and LOVE a good workbench, welding table, or fixture table. Since I’m always on the...

Bruce Cooks Solid Axle Swapped NBS Chevrolet Project: Brackets, Axle Gussets, Customizing Knuckles And More!

In this installment of the solid axle swapped Silverado, Bruce is working hard on getting components ready for the front axle to go together while also getting the rear axle housing trussed and ready...

2022 Civic Type-R Spied: Styling That Still Raises Eyebrows And Performance That Still Raises Pulse Rate

(By Tom Lohnes) – When the new-for-2017 FK8 generation of Honda Civic Type-R came out, many people were impressed by its performance and then disgusted by its boy-racer styling that took aero...

Luxury Land Bruiser: Ford Preparing The Upcoming 2022 Expedition ST – A Sported Up SUV The Size Of A House

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever wish that your 3-ton SUV with 8 seats was sportier? Well, Ford has the answer for you, and it comes in the form of the upcoming Expedition ST. Now, there are big...

Passion and Class: This Goodwood Masters Film On Duncan Pittaway Is A Great Piece On A Great Guy

This is so well worth your 20-minutes of viewing time we can hardly tell you. The film you are about to see is a profile on Duncan Pittaway, a man who’s name has appeared on these electronic...

License Day: This Behind The Scenes Video Featuring Jason Rupert Getting His NHRA Funny Car License Is Awesome

We’ve long been Jason Rupert fans here at BangShift.com. During our years of streaming events like the March Meet, California Hot Rod Reunion, and others, we saw a lot of him. Typically we saw...

Watch This Crazy Junkyard Shredder Eat Entire Engines – Amazing Power And Destruction

The metal business is pretty interesting. After all, at the end of the day the raw value of the stuff in a junkyard is its weight in metal. The stuff gets sold, loaded onto ships, smelted down in...

Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks

The science of destroying things is something that has fascinated people for hundreds of years. In an illustration of the true Yin and Yang of life, for every construction contractor there needs to...

The Wednesday Shift: Vintage Modified Eliminator Action from Connecticut Dragway Circa 1981

This great piece of video shows extinct race cars running on an extinct race track: Modified Eliminator at a 1981 NHRA Divisional hosted at the long dead Connecticut Dragway. Modified Eliminator in...

$3,500 Build: A Chassis Swapped, Bagged, And Chopped 1954 Chevrolet Build For Just $3,500

After successfully building an F100 for just $1,000, it would seem that building a 1954 Chevy would be a snap for $3,500. But it’s not that simple when you consider what Casey is going to do,...

NHRA Photos: Funny Cars, Funny Cars, And More Funny Cars. Plus Header Flames Galore!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Nitro is a riot to watch at night, and especially when it lights up the sides of a nitro burning Funny Car like the ones pictured in our gallery below. This is the first...

Abandoned Race Track Project: Tire Smoke, Tractors, A Turbo LS Swapped Lincoln, And The “Love Shack”

There is a lot of work going on to get this place up and running, but we love that they are also having a little fun in between. After all, you have to stay motivated. Yeah, that’s it. We call...

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BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Fixing Our Fuel System Before We Go Atomic!

Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...