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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Pre-Running The BAJA 1000 With Cameron Steele And The Desert Assassins Looks Like A Riot

I’ve watched a lot of pre-running videos over the years, and while the teams doing the pre-running are serious and dedicated to making sure they have the route and their race trucks sorted...

These Off-Road Monster Motorhomes Are Expedition Machines, And Here’s How They Are Built

I’m an RV freak, everyone around here knows it. But I also really dig off-road stuff and when I see a motorhome that can go where these big beasts can travel I’m completely in awe....

That Odd Bark: The Blown V6 Holden Berlina Barks To Life For The First Time!

We were moments away from sending Scotty at Street Machine a message inquiring as to the whereabouts of the Holden Berlina that he had started to build into a supercharged V6-powered sweeper. To...

Ride On-Board With Mario Andretti At The Indy 500 In 1966. This Ain’t No Go Pro!

(Words by Scott Liggett) On board cameras have become the norm with most auto racing that is televised these days. Heck, anyone with a Go Pro has videos of themselves racing on various forms of...

The Floor Seems Colder All Of A Sudden: Uncle Tony Bought A Miata!

Is it fair to say that the Mazda Miata has a seriously screwed up reputation? Absolutely. Mazda looked back to the heyday of British roadsters and managed to engineer some reliability back into it....

MORE: Videos

This Is A Floppy Fiberglass Hood Repair Kit! It Also Ads Hundreds Of Horsepower And Makes It Better At Hauling Christmas Trees

This may be my favorite episode of Finnegan’s Garage. Not only is it full of the fun and power that we all know and love, but the dose of humor that runs through this whole thing is exactly...

Dyno Video: Single Cylinder Of Fury! 50ci, 70hp, and EGTs Hotter Than The Surface Of The Sun!

The other day we showed you a custom built V-twin that spun to 12,000 RPM and made 120hp which was designed for use in modified garden tractor pulling. Today we’re showing you another small...

Ride On The Roll Cage Of This Injected Ford Cammer Powered Dragster In New Zealand

The Ford Cammer engine was dubbed the “90-day wonder” when it first was revealed to the world after a crash program during Ford’s Total Performance era. Originally intended for...

This Video Of An Old Russian Truck Crane Lifting An Old Russian Armored Vehicle Ends The Old Russian Way

Truck mounted cranes are pretty amazing pieces of equipment. What they can lift, where they can maneuver, and how they pack all of that power into a relatively speaking “small” machine...

A Pocket Bio Of Big Oly, One Of The Most Famous Off-Road Racing Trucks Of All Time

As much as Don Garlits’ Swamp Rat 14 was a revolutionary piece in the world of drag racing, Big Oly revolutionized the way guys thought of and built off-road racing trucks in the early...

This G-body Pontiac Bonneville Runs 10.79 In Full Street-Legal Trim – Power And 1980’s Luxury!

Australian gearheads have been yelling it at us for years: just because it has four doors doesn’t mean that it can’t haul ass and be cool. What could be more fun than hooning your car?...

Watch the Most Violent Dirt Modified Crash We Have Ever Seen – Driver OK, Race Car Obliterated

There’s a lot of fun to be had in the stands at your local dirt track. The action is always hot and heavy, there are usually some close calls, and virtually every car leaves the place with...

Best Of 2014: Living History- Listen To The Darracq V8 Fire Up And Run!

Of all of the strange car names that we’ve paid attention to over the years here at BangShift, Darracq might sound the oddest, but they were the real deal. Darracq was a French car manufacturer...

Watching This Old Cadillac Eldorado Slide Around A Frozen Lake With A Kid At The Wheel Is Pretty Awesome

There are times that I actually believe people who live in warm weather climates miss out on some of the gearhead fun that others of us get to have when the temperatures plummet. Take this video for...