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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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Big Blue: The Painting Of A 1960 Plymouth Fury For Your Entertainment!

Eighteen feet long, weighing in at over 3,500 pounds, sporting fins that were shark-like in nature and chrome the entirety of the bottom perimeter of the car, from the bumpers to the rocker panels....

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Inspect This!

Is it over? Is our annual national nightmare of who plays schoolyard sports best over and done with until next year? Nah, not really…baseball season is up next. Whatever. The Super Bowl has...

Turbos Aren’t Just For Junkyard LS Engines! Watch What Happens When You Bolt An S480 To A Big Block Chevy

With the insane popularity of turbocharging LS engines, especially junkyard LS engines, it seems like a lot of people have forgotten that turbochargers work on anything else! Of course that...

From Jeeps To Flying Monsters: A History Of Formula Offroad

The combination of a thousand or so horsepower, wide scoop-style tires, and a driver who is hell-bent on telling gravity to go fly a kite make Icelandic Formula Offroad one of our favorite...

Corrosion Reverso: Banishing The Rusty And Crusty Out Of The Front End Of A Fiero

If you’ve worked on a car that’s more than a few years old, chances are good that what’s underneath that pretty skin looks…well, let’s be nice and say...

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Hot Rodder’s Project: Make Your Own Louver Press In Your Garage! Louver The World

Back in the day, you could go to your local hot rod or speed shop and have louvers pressed into parts of all kinds. Local hot rodders would bring in hoods and fenders and more, all in search of...

BangShift Project Files: This V-10 Powered Fairmont Is One Stuffed Fox!

Ford could’ve had so much fun with the 6.8L V-10 if they really wanted to. The 412ci ten-hole unit usually gets relegated to the trucks and vans,  and while it made alright power, it...

It Might Look Like A Fancy Pinto, But It’s Really Micro Luxury And We Love It

This 1979 Mercury Bobcat is amazingly clean, and while it might look like a fancy Pinto, we prefer to call it Micro Luxury. The Bobcat, Mercury’s “upscale” version of the Ford Pinto was...

Period Correct Style And Mag Turbines Too: 1979 Datsun 620 Custom

Mini-trucks are not a late 1980s-early 1990s phenomenon. Mini-trucks have had their fans since they first started rolling on our side of the pond. Toyotas, Datsuns, Mazdas and the American-branded...

Oh Chute: John Zappia’s Parachute-Less Trip Into The Sand At Kiwnana Motorplex!

At the end of World War II, there was a ton of surplus military equipment that could be picked up and be put to good use outside of official military functions. You could buy surplus aircraft...

Watch 24-Year Old Craig Epperly Win Nitro Funny Car In His First Career Start At Columbus 1981

There will be many rookie debuts in the professional ranks of NHRA drag racing this year and it will be fun to watch people both young and old achieving the dream of running a pro level class....

There’s A Buick Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Coming And This Preview Video Sets It Up!

We love the Hagerty Redline Rebuild series that they have been producing for a couple of years now. Almost every engine platform you can think of has been a part of the time lapse fun and they have...

How Many Ways Can You Weld Box Tube Corners? The Answer Is A Lot, And Here Are 4 Cool Ones

Sometimes I see videos of guys making rounded or capped, or other corners in box tubing on videos you’ll see on youtube. Most of the time these videos have little or no instruction, or are in...

Big Block VS LS Supercharged Slugfest! Which One Makes More Power With The ProCharger?!

The LS engine has done a ton for the automotive aftermarket. Period. Love it or hate it, this little engine has spawned so much parts development over the past decade or so that it has spilled over...