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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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Supercharged Suicide: Adding A Blower To A Hot-Rodded Power Wheels

Behold, the blower. If turbochargers are the thinking man’s way of increasing the air in the cylinders on each stroke, and if nitrous is witchcraft, then the supercharger is the blunt-force...

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Check Out Richard Holdener’s New Field Find Nova Project He’s Calling The River Monster.

Yeah, it’s been underwater. Yeah, it’s kinda ugly. Yeah, it is going to need a lot of work. But you know what? It’s still a 1972 Nova and it is going to be one hell of a testbed for...

Ride With Peter Williamson During The 1980 Bathurst 1000 In The Small-Car Class: His Celica Against Ford Capris At 9,000 RPM!

Bathurst. The icon of Australian racing, now and then, with visions of drivers with almost no sense of self-preservation putting everything they have out on display for the fans. It is no wonder why...

Check Out These Rad Carbon Fiber Brake Boosters From Master Power! This Is Turning Things Up A Notch!

(Words by Jesse Kiser) Editor’s Note: Dude! When our friend Jesse said he had something cool and new to share with the BANGshift Nation, from the guys and gals at Master Power Brakes, I...

Motorboatin’: Reviving the Mercury Marine 302 In The Crappy Boat!

A boat is like an RV in many ways. It’s a luxury that you strive to achieve, and the day you tow one home for the first time, you are over the moon. Life doesn’t get any better than that...

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Alive And Well! The Kearney Cruise Night Brought Out Hot Rods, Trucks, And Street Machines Of All Kinds

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) The town of Kearney Nebraska and the Central Nebraska Auto Club (CNAC) have been putting on Cruise Nite for 32 years. The event started out as cruising around town...

Bugatti Is Bringing Stars Wars, Horsepower, and Who Knows What Else For Their Next 300mph Hypercar

(By Tom Lohnes) – Uhm, alright then. Bugatti has another multi-million-dollar project going, and it’s nothing like anything they’ve ever put out before. Bugatti is the brand once known for...

No Mercy 11 Photo Coverage Fun: More Awesome Cars, People, and Runs From South Georgia Motorsports Park

(Photos by Wes Allison) – While classes like RvW, Pro275, and X275 often times dominate the headlines from events like No Mercy and others, there’s a load of different categories at this...

Watch This Argentinian Built 6-Second BMW Pro Mod Scream In Brazil – The First 6-Second Car Built In Argentina!

This is really cool stuff and it shows the progression of drag racing in South America in ways that everyone can understand. You are going to see Lucas Gonzales racing a turbocharged BMW powered BMW...

Swap Story: This Video Shows The Process Of Swapping A Coyote Into A New Edge Mustang

The Ford Coyote engine has now been well established as a bad ass power plant in the world of hot rodding. They rev, they make power naturally aspirated, they low swallowing boost to make the big...

The Lincoln Commander Cody Warned You About: Nine Seconds From A Turbo Coyote!

The Lincoln Mark VIII was a very unique car for the 1990s…it had it’s own platform that was loosely based on the MN-12 platform (Ford Thunderbird/Mercury Cougar), it was only a little bit...

Win A Car You’d Really Want: Holley Is Giving Away The 1966 Buick Special Convertible That Started Roadkill

Before the Roadkill web series was even a thing, there was a MT show called Hot Rod Unlimited. In one of those episodes, the genesis for the Roadkill theme of the early days was formed when...

Burn, Baby, Burn: Giving Horsepower Redemption To An Old Disco Vette

When the C3 Corvette hit the scene in 1968, horsepower was the drug and everybody was living it up. After the Mako Shark II and it’s reworked Manta Ray form had captured many people’s...

Your Second Chance: A 1976 Mercury Comet That Sells Itself Short – Wickedness Inside!

One of the more infamous vehicles to ever appear is the Ford Mustang II known as “Sudden Death”. There was no real way that Joe Ruggirello was ever going to hide the fact that he...