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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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Dirt Every Day Beats On A Chevy Avalanche In The Snow! Big Engine, Big Tires, Big Carnage?

Go big or go home, that’s what we hear all the time. Well, for this episode of Dirt Every Day, Fred and Dave went big: from the back catalog of 4Wheel and Off Road is a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche...

Edd China Is Leaving The Television Show “Wheeler Dealers” After Thirteen Seasons

Edd China is a gearhead’s TV mechanic. The surprisingly tall China is one half of the television show “Wheeler Dealers”, which focuses on Edd fixing up a project car that co-star...

Watch This (Claimed) Stock Rebuild L78 396 Engine Make A Dyno Pull – Guess What It Made For Power?

The L78 was Chevrolet’s big power engine for a few of the most pivotal years of the muscle car era. Between 1966 and 1969, the L78 was the engine you optioned if you wanted the baddest...

The CJ5 Go-For-Digger – A True Mighty Mite (With Video of One In Action!)

People can knock Facebook all they want, but I’m into it. This post about what has to be the coolest freaking factory Jeep ever comes from a tip BangShifter Jeremy George sent me on FB. What...

From The Junkyard To The Dyno – Watch This Massive EMD Locomotive Engine Get Rebuilt and Tested

This is not the fanciest video but it is pretty awesome when you consider the subject and the circumstances. You are looking at a monster EMD 645E7 engine. This is a 16-cylinder monster with each...

Goodguys Spring Nationals Scottsdale Autocross And Car Show Photos

There is no finer place to start off the Goodguys season than sunny Scottsdale Arizona, and the 2017 season opener certainly was not lacking in sunshine and warmth. With temps in the high 80’s...

This One Owner, 31,000 Mile, 1958 Impala Is Positractionally Perfect

Full disclosure, I know the guys selling this car. I get no commission, no cut, no nothing, from the sale. What I get instead is the feeling of jealousy that is enveloping me right this moment as I...

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Watch NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Racer Andie Rawlings Hang Onto Her Bike After Making Wall Contact

NHRA Pro Stock motorcycle racer Andie Rawlings was happy to be getting a top end interview for the TV show on Friday at the event but the circumstances were not what they were looking for. Rawlings,...

This Turbo Ford-Powered Jeep Doesn’t Have Wheelie Bars, Does Have Grunt, And Hustles Without A Roof!

There is precedent for seeing a killer Jeep on a dragstrip…just off-hand, we come up with the Holy Toledo Jeepster and LSX Willys, for examples. But that doesn’t mean that they are common...

Would You Rather: Which Of These High-Desert Big Trucks Would You Choose For A Modern Diesel Build?

Modern diesel technology is truly wonderful…great horsepower figures, torque ratings that could slow the Earth’s rotation, and all accomplished without spewing more smoke than a tire yard...

Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs 2017 Coverage – Classy Customs, LS Swapped Sleepers, and One Neat Buick

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We’re continuing our Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs 2017 coverage right now. It is no secret I am not part of the ‘LS-swap the world’...

Bet Ye Can’t Do This! Toyota’s “Wade” Commercial Sees The Real Hilux Square Off Against A Remote-Controlled Hilux!

It’s a shame that more car manufacturers don’t get creative with advertising anymore. Mostly, it’s the same thing: show the car or truck driving along, happy family, some...

The Combo Of A Rock Bouncing Buggy And Monster Truck Tires Is The Best Idea Of The 21st Century

There’s a good chance that we’re wrong about this but it seems to us that rock bouncing is to off-roading kind of like radial and small tire racing is to the drags. It is a wild off-shoot...

The Gentleman’s Slugfest: Racing From The Goodwood 75th Members’ Meeting!

The Goodwood 75th Members Meeting offers up some of the best racing in the U.K. that isn’t on the Isle of Man. There are a multitude of races that take place during the weekend, including a new...