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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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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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Created Out Of Thin Air: More Work On The KTM-Powered Power Wheels Jeep

The KTM-powered Power Wheels Jeep project is getting tidied up before it’s considered done. Yeah, it runs, but there are details that need to be addressed before this little monster is ready to...

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This Vintage Simplex Go-Kart With Twin West Bend Engines Is A Perfectly Restored Vision Of 1960s Fun

From a recreational activity that got people together for low key fun more than 50 years ago to one of the most popular and important motorsport disciplines in the world, go-karting sure has come a...

Rough Start: 1978 Buick LeSabre Sport Coupe – Grandpa’s Grand National

I’ll always advocate an model that isn’t as popular as the typical selections here, mainly because I feel that a lot of good looking machines got overlooked simply because they were a...

Hydroform Your Own Parts At Home With A Grease Gun!

Fluid has incredible power when used properly, and can be used to form metal for all kinds of purposes. Hydroforming, the process where a fluid is used to exert pressure on a material in order to...

The Half-Dead Hornet Road Trip, Part 2: Vacuum-Operated Windshield Wipers?!

The worst “running car, driving home” story I’ve got involved the purchase of my Dodge Mirada back in 2009. For $650, the 318 ran well enough, and the electrical system was...

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Aluminum Overcast: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker In Action

Six turnin’, four burnin’. Maybe…depending on whether the carburetor on the 28-cylinder Wasp Major engines had iced up or not. Without a doubt, the B-36 Peacemaker is a jaw-dropping...

Project Binky Update: Turbo, Transmission, And So Much More For This Turbo 4 All Wheel Drive Mini

While Project Binky is in the body shop getting the outside, inside, and every nook and cranny painted in preparation for final assembly, there are plenty of parts that need help before all that can...

Stainless Line How-To: Brakes, Fire System, And More. Here’s How To Do Them Right

Whenever the subject of hard lines comes up on a project I talk about my buddy Rodney Mason who works at Ridetech. That dude is one of those guys that can see the line in his head and make it just...

This Chevrolet Firenza CanAm Is Violence In A Small Package! Check Out This South African Muscle Car!

The Chevrolet Firenza CanAm is the very angry distant cousin to the Vauxhall Firenza, a handsome enough coupe based on the otherwise homely Vauxhall Viva. Look at it…are you getting an odd hint...

Our Pre Coronavirus Autorama Photos Continue: These Have Never Been Seen Before

We told you we had a bunch of cool show photos, and here they are. When BANGshifter Scott Liggett hit the Autorama to snap photos for all of you to enjoy back in March, he sent them to our Dropbox,...

Historical Footage: A 1920s Dodge Brothers Sedan Taking All The Punishment That A Trip To The Oil Well Could Provide

Mud, dirt, arroyos, rocks, sand, hills…you’d be hard-pressed to convince some diesel truck guys to take their pretty bro-dozers off-road, but for this early 1920s Dodge Brothers sedan,...

Random Car Review: The 1981 Mercedes-Benz 500SL, The Teutonic Rally Terror That Could Have Been

Mercedes-Benz had a unique take when it came to auto racing at the beginning of the 1980s: If their vehicle didn’t outright dominate, they didn’t want to play ball. That pride put a...

Dream Sleeper: A Turbocharged, LS-Swapped RWD Converted W-body Monte Carlo!

Peeling paint to the metal, cheap plasticky 1990s interior…no, I understand if you want to have my head examined by a professional for saying that this Monte Carlo would be a dream to own. But...

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Rust-Replacement At Home: The Rustoleum Valiant Wagon’s Floor Pans Get Patched And Prepped!

When it appeared that Australia was going to clamp down due to the pandemic, Scotty hustled to get the Rustoleum wagon home just in case that the country went into full lock-down mode. It...

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