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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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Best of 2020: This 1972 Ford Truck Commercial Is Crazier Than You Think It Was To Make

This tv commercial for 1972 Ford trucks is pretty good. There’s the requisite goofy premise and storyline to follow but there is also vintage dirt bikes, jumps, sideways action, and a whole lot...

Video: This Feature On The Summers Brothers Goldenrod Is Mandatory Must Watch Stuff

In the pantheon of legitimately amazing hot rods, there are cars that stand above the crowd. Machines that represent the pinnacle of achievement for their age. Machines that represent the pinnacle of...

Best of 2020: Flogging A Hemi Daytona At Mont Tremblec With Extreme Prejudice

In some road tests, the video will start off with some basic driving, or maybe some clean beauty shots of the car parked up, perfectly polished, looking like you hope your potential dream machine...

Which Would You Rather Get For Christmas? A New Project, Or The Money To Finish An Old One You Still Have?

I have multiple project cars sitting waiting to be finished or even started. In my defense, I have a shop that we are currently building that when done will allow me to work on these projects, but...

Incredible: Jack Bally Built A Flying 1/3 Scale B-17 Bomber From Scratch – Video and Info Here!

(By Scott Liggett) –We at Bangshift.com have such respect for the generation of WWII. Part of that respect includes the machines the men and women used to fight a world war against enemies...

Best of 2020: Subaru’s Forester Special For The Singapore Motor Show Is One For The Books!

(We’re still disappointed this didn’t happen. -Ed.) Outside of a couple of STi-swapped examples that I’ve seen courtesy of Pacific Import Auto in Tacoma, Washington, a hot-rodded...

Old School Video: This Footage Of A British Firefly Racing Dinghy Boat From 1958 Rules

The English have always been pretty proud of their boat building skills and rightfully so. From the battleships that lead them to be the world’s first super power and effectively rule the...

Best of 2020: New C8 Corvettes Busted Street Racing In Bowling Green

(Editor’s note: One word, folks. OOPS. -ed.) The stories from back in the day are legend. On streets like Woodward Avenue and Telegraph Road in Detroit, teams of engineers from the...

Best of 2020 – Historic Video: The Race Of Two Words Was Run At Monza in 1957 and 1958 – USA vs The World!

It is an event that has all but been forgotten by history. An international race so wild that during the first running, most of the teams pulled out of competition after qualifying. An event that...

Best of 2020: Cleetus Takes Toast, The Camaro To The Skidpad At Summernats For The First Time!

It’s a brassy move to go meet someone on their home turf with their own rules with the goal of showing up and showing off like you own the place. That’s why we had our eyebrows raised a...

Best of 2020: Watch This Large Barge Of A 1970 Cadillac Eldorado Hit The Chassis Dyno And Groan

Things like the chassis dyno and the drag strip do not always give us the answers and numbers that we want but they also don’t really lie to us either. That can be painful at times but it is...

Best Of 2020: The “WTF?!” Files: 1994 Ford Taurus SHO Truck

When Ford gambled on the Ford Taurus, there was a very strong concern about whether or not the flying potato shape would find success in the marketplace. Ford hadn’t been on the greatest streak...

Best of 2020: Remember The Weird Turbo Pontiacs of The Early 1990s? This Grand Prix Review Re-Sparked Our Interest

Journalists, enthusiasts, and car buyers are a fickle bunch, right? We complain and yell at the car companies to try things, to do things, and to make the stuff we want them to make. More often than...

Watch Buddy Baker Break The 200mph Barrier On A Closed Course In A Hemi Daytona Charger Circa 1970 – Screaming Elephant At Talladega!

The world had literally never seen the likes of anything similar to Talladega Superspeedway when it opened in September of 1969. Immediately thrust into controversy when NASCAR drivers, led by...