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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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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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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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

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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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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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Video Bonanza: Indoor Burnouts!

Blame my son Tom for this blog item because it was his idea. Being that it was really cold at BangShift eastern world HQ yesterday morning and we were trolling YouTube together he mentioned that it...

This 1960 GMC Video Heralds The Introduction Of The Latest Heavy Duty Trucks, Including The Famed Crackerbox

Here’s a short and sweet video from the GM Heritage Center that harks back to 1960 and the introduction of GMCs new heavy duty truck models. The main star of the show is a Viking cab-over truck...

Best of 2020: Early Camaro Cup Footage From Sweden

The mythos of musclecars spread worldwide. Japan, the Middle East, Europe, South America, Australia…between 1960 and 1980, depending on where you are at, somehow American musclecars impacted...

Best of 2020: How Lee Iacocca Almost Got A Lamborghini Edition Chrysler Imperial

(Imperial and Daytona renderings: Abimelec Design) It would be unfair to say that Lee Iacocca wasn’t a genius. Over his almost half-century in the auto game, the man had a ton of credits to his...

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Best of 2020: WRONG LEVER! A Passenger In A French Military Jet Thought The Eject Handle Was The “Oh, S***” Handle!

What would your reaction be if your friends hooked you up with a ride in a no-joke supersonic fighter jet? We’re not talking an airshow cruise, we’re talking the full suit, the g-lock...

Best of 2020: The Social Distance Bike, Courtesy Of The Mad Inventor

Six feet apart. That’s the current rule, ain’t it? Be six feet apart or you’re going to catch the 21st century plague of the moment. Six feet apart or Brenda there is going to give...

Best of 2020: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress On Takeoff From The Cockpit

I first saw a B-52 mounted on posts on the grounds of the Air Force Academy. 55-0083, a B-52D model in full olive camo color, made for an imposing sight for a mounted aircraft. My grandfather...

TREMEC Releases New TKX 5-Speed RWD Transmission- Available through McLeod Racing

You’ve had a good Christmas, Santa or whoever else was good to you. Now’s the time to do what you have been wanting to do t your hot rod since forever…add a TREMEC transmission....

Coolest Kit Car Ever? Turn A Mazda Miata Into A Pre-War Alfa Romeo Tipo 184 At Home! This is Wild!

Do you have a spare Mazda Miata sitting around? Do you dream of driving a prewar, single seater racecar one day? Well, grab your wrenches because you’ve got work to do. Yes that’s right, you...

Watch A VW Powered Front Engine Dragster Run 6.52 In The Quarter Mile – Fear The Nail!

Of all the awesome stuff that we saw during the course of the 2014 Street Car Super Nationals, the crew from VW Paradise had a couple of the coolest cars. These were aircooled VWs running deep into...

A Go-Kart Sized Monster Truck With A Big Block Chevy Engine Looks Like One Heck Of A Good Time

If there was a record for the most favorable power to weight ratio, we’re thinking that the creation in the video below certainly qualifies. We’re talking about a miniature monster truck,...

Mustang Mayhem – Here’s Five Minutes Of Ford Mustang Drag Cars Earning Trips To The Glue Factory

Boy there sure as some wince inducing moments throughout the course of this five minute video produced by Urban Hillbilly Action Videos. It is nothing but Ford Mustangs blowing up, sliding around,...

Best of 2020: Louvers! Watch As This Model T Trunklid Gets Vented!

One of the cars that pulled family duty back when I was a teenager was a G-body Chevy Malibu station wagon that my guardian couldn’t trade for fast enough. It was a cool...

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Best of 2020: 1954 Dual Ghia Firebomb Concept Car

At the start of the 1950s, Chrysler wasn’t really setting anybody’s pants on fire. Still spooked by the flop of the Airflow, the company had decided to just play it safe and subtle, not...