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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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Do You Know How To Get The Right Shifter Position On Your Tremec Transmission? Watch And Learn How To Change It.

Tremec transmissions have some cool features that aren’t just about handling huge amounts of power and providing a great driving experience for your engine. Nope, a lot of what makes driving...

Unhinged: A Toast To The Good Ol’ Truck

The Spring of 2020 brought enough problems with it, but here at BangShift Mid-West, we’ve been on a roll a bit longer than that. The fun really kicked off late last year, when an uninsured...

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Driving Movie Slapfight: Going 2-0 In The War With “Death Proof”!

Not a peep? Not a squeak? Not even a crack about “only picked it because it had a Mopar in it”? Color me shocked, I figured Lohnes would’ve fired back with some virtually unknown,...

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This 1979 Squarebody Chevrolet Suburban Is Retro Greatness And We Want It!

I’ve been a Suburban fan since I was old enough to say Suburban. Our family has had one almost continuously since I was 6 and I personally have owned several as well. The square body Chevrolet...

Now This Is How You BANG Some Shifts! Driver Is So Thrilled You Get A High Gear Fist Pump Too!

I grew up with a dad drag racing a stick car, that was shifted somewhere north of 7,500 rpm, so I’m used to someone grabbing gears like a champ. What’s always made me intrigued by stick...

SNOWBOUND! – How The US Army And American Industry Dug Out Several States During The Winter Of 1948/49 – Narrated By Paul Harvey

A couple of years ago, Buffalo got hammered with one of the all time record short term snowfall totals in American history. The seven feet of snow they got over the course of a day or two brought the...

Project Isolation Restoration: Time To Tackle The Walbro LME Carb Rebuild! Small Fuel Mixers Are Fun

Project Isolation Restoration has turned a fun corner. I’m now in the mode of actually putting stuff back together and making it nice rather than taking stuff apart, cleaning it, and mending...

Ate Up With Grille: These Are The Nominees For Biggest, Weirdest, and Most Visually Controversial Grilles Out There

(By Tom Lohnes) – Having a giant grille on a car is a love-it-or-hate-it thing. Some automakers pull off the giant grille, and some miss by a longshot. Today we are going to be going over the...

Classic YouTube: The 1964 Daytona 500 – Ford Versus Chrysler, Richard Petty

The 1964 Daytona 500 was the moment that Chrysler Corporation dropped the H-bomb on the world of Grand National racing: the 426 Race Hemi was unloaded in full force in retaliation for Ford’s...

Mahle Motorsport Annoucnes Return To Racing Rebate – May 15 to July 15th – Buy and SAVE!

We love the fact that the aftermarket is stepping up to help races get back racing, especially now that tracks and events are starting to kick back up again. MAHLE Motorsport announced return to...

Bangshift Question Of The Day: How Do You Justify The Risk Of Racing?

In the last few weeks, the concept of risk versus reward have become seriously tested. Is the reward of that cheeseburger that you’ve been missing worth the risk of the sickness? It’s a...

The Perfect Daily Driver Is Back! 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24, With Blown 3.8L V6 And Five-Speed!

Last Spring, after seeing what my travel schedule looked like, my wife decided that it was high time that we purchase a fuel-mileage oriented car. I conceded. Nothing against Angry Grandpa’s...

Spitting Hot Truth: DeBoss Garage Talks Through Everything Wrong With The Cummins 4BT

In the list of “miracle” engines these days, the famed Cummins 4BT “bread truck” engine is one of them. It is no where near our mechanical savior the LS but there are so many...

BangShift Project Files: 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Preparing For An LS4 Swap

I’m old enough to remember seeing Luminas like this one everywhere. I’m young enough to not quite fully understand why everybody hated them as much as they did. So bear with me on that,...