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Beautiful Bonneville Video: James Hoegh Talks About Riding the Confederate X132 Combat On The Salt – Beyond Awesome

As gearheads, we’re all a little weird. We see the world in a different way than the average person on the street. There’s a reason that the tears flow like water at the awards ceremony...

Car Show Gallery: Super Run 2012 – Henderson, Nevada – Cool Cruise and Killer Cars!

(Photos by Colin Johnson) – BangShifter Colin Johnson recently attended a really neat event in Nevada called the “Super Run”. This yearly event is a four day affair held in...

Incredible Photos From Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout Courtesy Of Zane McNary

Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout has been going on since 2006 when Mike and Mikey Cook decided that there needed to be an event on the salt that catered to the guys that wanted to go really...

Video: Watch the Preview For the Upcoming Optima Faceoff TV Mini-Series on SPEED

With the onset of fall and the approach of the SEMA show, we’re also getting ready to start looking forward to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational which is held each year in Pahrump,...

Race Gallery: ChumpCar Action Photos From Shelton, Washington – 100% BS Approved Low Buck Fun!

(Photos by D.V. Klenak) – If you have not heard of the ChumpCar World Series, you must be living under a rock. The low buck, high fun, racing series has been around for years and they run races...

BangShift Exclusive: Larson & Lutz Will Headline Street Car Shootout At NMCA Houston

We’ve just got news that Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz will be headlining an eight-car field of Drag Week style Unlimited street cars running at the Houston NMCA Event November 9-11 . The...

Cruise-In Photos: Northern Tools Burlington North Carolina Cruise-In

BangShift’s newest contributor Dennis White was back at it again this weekend and got us more photos from the killer cruise scene in Burlington, NC. If we didn’t know better we’d...

Video: Comp Cams Explains Camshaft Technology

Comp Cams has got some great new videos up that explain some of the often misunderstood concepts behind camshaft technology. In this video “Comp Cams Technology Explained: Cam Timing”...

Chrysler Shaking Down Dealers For $25,000 In Order To Sell Viper – Exclusivity Is Expensive!

The word surrounding the upcoming 2013 Viper has been “exclusive”. Chrysler is trying to move the car upmarket in image from it’s hairy, Cobra like roots and will do so in several...

Video: More Than Five Minutes of Fires, Crashes, and Explosions From Aussie Burnout Contests!

Showing this video to a person not familiar with the level of insanity that pervades Aussie burnout contests would probably put them into a state of shock. After all, how often do you see a car smoke...

Update: Hotchkis Suspension & AFCO Bushings Transform Our 9C1 Caprice

Well we can officially say that Project Buford T Justice is underway and the transformation from a sad sack, 196,000 mile ex-police vehicle into a fun to drive tire shredder is under way. Using basic...

Video: Watch Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s COPO #19 Make The Quickest COPO Run Ever At Norwalk

Of all the awesome stuff I saw at the inaugural Lingenfelter Performance Nationals last weekend, it was the run you are about to watch below that stole the whole show. It was the combination of Kurt...

Video Hilarity!: Local Reporter Screams Like A Girl In Ridetech’s ’33 Ford On The Autocross

Dick Wolfsy, a local reporter for the Channel 8 news in Indy went for a ride in Bret Voelkel’s Ridetech ’33 Ford on the Autocross. We totally forced him to do it, and now we know why he...

Road Trip Video: Rodfather Wrapup: Check Out All The Videos Right Here!

We just finished up the first half of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour and can’t begin to describe just how bitchin it was. Sure we worked our asses off shooting video and photos and getting...