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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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Truck Suspension Tech Video: Check Out The Install Of QA1s Complete Single Adjustable Coil-Over Suspension On A 1970 C10!

There’s nothing hotter in the aftermarket these days than classic trucks. After just meeting with dozens of high performance parts manufacturers last week, I came away with a keen understanding...

2020 Grand National Roadster Show Photo Coverage: History, Beauty, and More At This Awesome Show

(Photos by Wes Allison) – While we often talk about the “racing season” there’s no real “car show season” in America because it just doesn’t stop. Like...

This 1940s Midget Racer Has An Empty Flathead Engine And Stories For Days

Midget racing in the 1940s was one of the biggest automotive attractions in the country. Midgets races everywhere you and on every surface you can think of. Indoors, outdoors, on dirt tracks, on road...

Breakout: Antron Brown and Don Schumacher Racing Announce Formation Of AB Motorsports – First Step For Brown As Team Owner

While the NHRA off-season news has been more of a drip than a torrent in 2020, the floodgates have opened over the last couple of days and at the top of the wave was this blockbuster announcement...

Holley EFI Dominates At US Street Nationals – Stevie Fast Claims Record, Effectively Races Himself In Final Round

So get this. Stevie Jackson and his guys have been in every final round of ever race they have entered (NHRA, and outlaw/drag radial) since the 2019 NHRA US Nationals in August. This is even more...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Antron Brown Tells The Inside Story Of The Formation Of AB Motorsports, Jason Line Talks Pro Stock, More!

This is a neat episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast because the guests and the topics are pretty juicy. There’s Antron Brown who just yesterday announced that he has formed AB Motorsports which...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Dreams” by Van Halen (1986) Featuring The Blue Angels

How in the hell have we not featured this video yet? How? Before I knew everybody’s name in the band, before I knew one single album title, I knew Van Halen simply because of this music video....

Godzilla’s Guts: Tearing Into The New Ford 7.3L V8 To See What’s What

So we know that a Fox body mule is being prepped to take one of Ford’s new 7.3L OHV V8 engines. That’s awesome…we love to see that an engine that’s still piping hot from the...

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1320Video’s Top Crashes Of 2019: The Bashed Racing Machines Of Last Year!

Kyle and crew are veterans of being too close to the track with cameras in hand. And that’s only part of what they film, especially if you know how 1320Video got off of the ground in the first...

Pomona Swap Meet January 2020 Images – Our Last Look At Cool Cars and Trucks For Sale!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – There’s no way of knowing how much cash has exchanged hands over the years at the Pomona Swap Meet but it has to be in the hundreds of millions, right? The...

The World’s Fastest Wood Planer: The Consulier GTP, One Of The Strangest Movers Ever Made!

The first time I actually saw one, I about broke my neck trying to determine just what the hell “it” actually was. It’s not everyday that I’m completely and utterly baffled at...

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Viva Orange! Watch This Stick Shifted, Turbocharged, Four-Cylinder Brazilian Chevette Run 8s At 170 In Brazil

As the drag racing scene in America begins to slowly wake from its winter slumber, the boys and girls in the Southern Hemisphere continue to kill it with their cool cars and trucks. In this video we...

Flamin’ Nightmare: Watch This Power Stroke Ford Go Down In Flaming Glory On The Dyno

Modern diesel performance is an amazing thing to behold and like all aspects of the aftermarket, people like to push the boundaries of what is possible. In the case of this video the guys who own...

Long-Roof Life: 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon With A Six-Speed And Drag Week History

Oh, was it so long ago that the station wagon was the butt of jokes? Too large, too unwieldy, too much woodgrain appliqué, too much fuel going down the throat of a V8 that had all of the cylinders...