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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Beating The Siberian Winter In A UAZ-based Mobile Sauna…Yes, Really.

A quick look at the broad spectrum of Russian weather in recent days looks like this: the highest temperatures are pushing 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest high temperatures are somewhere...

24 Hours Of Pastrana: Travis And Crew Try Out 24 Hours Of Lemons!

Travis Pastrana isn’t afraid of any motorsport. Win, lose, or carried out on a stretcher with his thumb pointing up like a champ, he’s taken on a large share of motorsports in his years....

Monday Shopper: A Dodge Power Wagon That Truly Deserves To Be Called “Macho” – 440-6 Power!

In the late 1970s, responding to the tastes of custom tricks performed on their vehicles, Dodge introduced an interesting marketing setup. Composed of tricked-out trucks and vans, the grouping was...

Unhinged: The Five-Year Plan Review – It’s Really Been That Long Since I Started?!

I’m starting to type this at 3:18 in the morning. I have a mix of Deftones music playing in the background (you can find it on YouTube by searching “Deftones Mix – Outer...

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The Lost Bet: The Dangers Of Project Creep And The Most Horrific Timing Belt Change We Know Of

Something that Chad is quick to remind me to be wary of is project creep…you know, where one thing leads to another, and while you’re at it you can do this, and that, and that…and...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Would You Change The New Truck Game?

In less than five seconds after the photos of the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD line were released, you could hear one noise that rose from many, many voices in unison: “GAH!” We can be as...

Blank Slate: This 1976 Crown Supercoach Needs To Be RV Converted!

You can blame all of my bus fixation on living in the Pacific Northwest as a kid. When I lived in Illinois, I rode around in conventional Chevrolet C-60 buses and later, International conventionals,...

Here Is The Complete King Of The Hammers Race Replay! If You Missed It, Sit Down And Watch.

King of the Hammers is an off-road race like none other. And King of the Hammers Week is an event like none other. It’s like Burning Man and the Baja 1000 had a baby and it grew up to be this....

The Field Of Skeletons: Take A Walk Through A Muscle Mopar Graveyard

Buying brand-new sheetmetal to fix the holes in your classic car wasn’t always an option on the table. Those companies that sprouted up to fill the need did so because there was such a demand...

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Street Racing In Sweden Is Arguably Some Of The Coolest On Earth. Man We Want To Go See This In Person!

I’ve been following street racing in Sweden for years. Magazines, online publications, and video crews have been sharing the action on the highways of Sweden for decades and each and every time...

1,800 Miles In A $300 Car Because…Why Not? The Junkyard Digs Oldsmobile Heads East!

Buying a low-dollar beater only works out if the car you purchase gives you something back in return. Take the Cougar that we’ve been messing with for the last couple of weeks…$400 for...

Our NHRA Winternationals Photos Just Keep Coming! Wheels Up Sportsman Photos Right Here

Like we told you yesterday, it’s NHRA Winternationals time and that means amazing muscle cars with the wheels in the air for the opening of the 2019 Mello Yello Drag Racing Season here in...

Barn Find: This 1965 Built T-Bucket Is A Bad Ass, And I Don’t Like T-Buckets Even A Little!

It is no secret that I do not like T-Buckets. I am good with 1920’s Fords, and am cool with building them into hot rods, but plastering all the parts and stuff on them like a T-Bucket is not...

59th Winternationals Bonus – #1 Nitro Qualifiers Real Interview!

Saturday evening at Auto Club Pomona Raceway is a relief for drag racers after four competitive rounds of qualifying over two days for the 59th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals presented by...