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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday

That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]

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Show Gallery: The 2013 Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Hot Rods, Cool Trucks, Muscle and More!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Last weekend, Tommy Lee Byrd made his annual trip (a whole 4 miles) to the Strawberry Festival Cruise In, held in his hometown of Dayton, Tennessee. It’s a typical small town festival that features a block party on Friday night, and a big parade on Saturday afternoon. [...]

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BangShift Epic Exclusive: Previously Unpublished Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing!

(Photos from Al Benker collection) – Today, we win the internet. Seriously. You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Cal Span welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al Benker. A couple of weeks ago we told you about the Hemi engines [...]

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Gallery: The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The 10th George Barris’ Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show took over the downtown streets of Culver City on Saturday morning and brought in bigger crowds and more cars than any year before. Held right outside the front gates of the historic Culver Studios in the shadow of [...]

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BangShift Exclusive Video: Clint Satterfield’s Pro Mod Crash At The Throwdown In T-Town 2013

You aren’t going to see this one anywhere else folks! This is footage from our LIVE broadcast of the 2013 Throwdown in T-Town at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park that shows Clint Satterfield destroying his beautiful 1968 Camaro Pro Mod car during the Semi Final round of eliminations in Legal Pro Mod. Clint’s car got [...]


 
 

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BangShift Epic Exclusive: Previously Unpublished Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing!

Posted in General News May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  3 comments

(Photos from Al Benker collection) – Today, we win the internet. Seriously. You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Cal Span welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al Benker. A couple of weeks ago we told you about the Hemi engines [...]

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Would You Drive It?: A Solid Axle “Street Freak” ’66 Buick Skylark That’s For Sale

Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? May 15, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  32 comments

We remember when the “Street Freak” era was hot, tubs weren’t cool, and gassers weren’t the only thing with a straight axle. Of course if you really wanted to be the dude you also had 18 colors of paint and an actual name written on your car somewhere. Well, this Skylark isn’t quite up to [...]

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Fuel Altered Video: NitroAmerica Presents The Outlaw Fuel Altered Association At North Star Dragway

Posted in RACING & ACTION May 15, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  4 comments

Les Mayhew, owner/founder/editor/camera man, of Nitro America is one bitchin dude who know how to capture great things happening at great drag strips. He’s at it again with this video that features the Outlaw Fuel Altered Association’s Season Opener at North Star Dragway. Fire, smoke, wheelstands, and all the antics you expect from Fuel Altereds [...]

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Sideways with Rodney Prouty: Remember Where You Came From

Posted in Sideways May 15, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  8 comments

(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty)  Every day I walk into work at a speed shop where I see black and white images of our racing legacy. We have tattered old posters of racing events at historic places like Half Moon Bay Dragstrip and Lions Speedway along with trophies from Bonneville to Fremont. I got to [...]

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Free Shipping Now Through May 31st: Could Save You Hundreds With American Powertrain

Posted in Sponsor News May 15, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  2 comments

Ever ship a complete transmission? How about a trans, crossmember, shifter, clutch, bell housing, flywheel, driveshaft, pressure plate, nuts, bolts, and other hardware? Trust us, it can get pricey in a hurry. Which is why we convinced American Powertrain to give all BangShifters FREE SHIPPING through the rest of May. See how we help you [...]

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Cam Video: Watch Hunkins and Dulcich Test Out Three Crane Big Block Bumpsticks On The Westech Dyno!

Posted in ENGINES May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

Recently our buddies John Hunkins and Steve Dulcich hit the world renown dyno at Westech Performance in California for a three way camshaft test that we’re thinking you’ll see in the pages of an upcoming issue of Popular Hot Rodding. The good thing for those of us favoring instant gratification is that the guys had a [...]

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Gallery: The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The 10th George Barris’ Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show took over the downtown streets of Culver City on Saturday morning and brought in bigger crowds and more cars than any year before. Held right outside the front gates of the historic Culver Studios in the shadow of [...]

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Celebrity Car Death Match: Camaro On Camaro Battle – The 1979 Z/28 From Fast Times At Ridgemont High VS The 1967 Camaro From Better Off Dead!

Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  31 comments

Oh yea, it is time to put a pair of Camaros into the BangShift ring of doom and destruction to see which one will limp out alive! We’re pulling Camaros from two classic comedy movies today and making you decided which one will be victorious. But first, let’s check the results of yesterday’s total dud [...]

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Truck Yeah – Tim McGraw (2012)

Posted in BS Daily Tune Up May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

While I am not a huge country music fan, I do love trucks and this video is chock full of them. Not only that, they are cool old trucks blowing donuts, throwing rocks, and burning out. Lots of country music songs reference pickup trucks in a somber and sad tone of woe, but this one [...]

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BangShift Exclusive Video: Clint Satterfield’s Pro Mod Crash At The Throwdown In T-Town 2013

Posted in CRASH & BURN May 14, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  3 comments

You aren’t going to see this one anywhere else folks! This is footage from our LIVE broadcast of the 2013 Throwdown in T-Town at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park that shows Clint Satterfield destroying his beautiful 1968 Camaro Pro Mod car during the Semi Final round of eliminations in Legal Pro Mod. Clint’s car got [...]

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Video: Watch A ProCharged Pontiac Engine Make 2200+ HP On Steve Morris’s Dyno!

Posted in ENGINES May 14, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

There’s awesome and then there is TOTALLY FRIGGIN’ AWESOME. This video, featuring a 2,200hp dyno pull from a 510ci Pontiac engine equipped with a ProCharger F3 falls in the latter category. This has to be one of the most powerful Pontiac engines on Earth. We know that there are some guys running nitro through Ponchos [...]

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