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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Image Driven Vehicle Type?

Lots of what tends to drive people to buy certain cars is the image that they project. Let’s face it, car companies don’t make ads about pickup trucks that feature cowboys, country...

Friday Carnage Photo – One Of The Deadest Motors You Will EVER See! How An Alky Racer Killed it! Can You Name The Motor?

  (Photo credit: Eddyville Raceway Park FB Page) – If you are a fan of alcohol funny cars you know the name Dale Brand. For many years he was a very strong racer on the IHRA circuit and...

Wally’s World GTO LSFest Update: It Made It, Hauled Ass, And Broke! It Was NOT Our Fault.

Let me start out by saying I DID NOT DO IT! I swear. And, despite a crazy deadline, the Wally’s World GTO made it to LSFest. It looked bitchin, sounded insanely pissed off, and it hauled ass....

Brad Edward’s Mustang Takes Flight At No Mercy 4 And Lands On The Wheels

One of the great small tire races in the country, the Duck X Productions No Mercy 4 is going on at South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta this weekend. The action has gotten insane on the track...

PowerShift LIVE Tonight At 6pm Pacific 9pm Eastern. Drag Racing, Crashes, Kids, And More!

It’s that time again folks and we’ll be broadcasting live from Southern California this evening for another edition of PowerShift LIVE with Chad and Brian. We’ll be talking about...

eBay Find: If I Won The Lottery I Would Buy This Epic 6×6 1959 Chevrolet Apache For Brian

During a recent hunt for something interesting on eBay, I started searching out military 6×6 2.5 ton trucks. They are super cool and often times customized in interesting ways, but you can...

Ford Racing Debuts Z460 Small Block – Based On New Boss Block, Makes 575/575 Barely Trying (Dyno Video!)

While us media guys like to get our undies in a bunch about Coyote motors and LS mills, the fact of the matter is that there are millions upon millions of hot rodders who still use traditional...

Show And Race Photos: The Niagara Nostalgic Races In Buffalo Do Not Dissapoint

The Niagara Nostalgic Races at Elegant Builders Raceway in Buffalo New York is a pretty bitchin event. With literally TONS of gassers in attendance, including the famed Jim Oddy machine you’ve...

BangShift Owns The Fall! FOUR Upcoming Live Broadcasts! Make Plans To Tune In! BE HERE!

Typically we do not publish a schedule of our live broadcasts because they’re pretty well stretched out through the year but this fall, starting in about two weeks, we’re going to be...

Watch A Crazy Top Fuel Motorcycle Crash In Slow Motion (Rider OK) – What Took Seconds, Takes Two Minutes! Incredible Footage

Top Fuel motorcycle racer Steve Carey was riding his machine at Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia 2013 event recently and suffered a pretty nasty wreck after his bike went into bad tire shake at about...

More Autocross Action Shots From The Route 66 Rendezvous Autocross In Southern California

Yesterday we shared some great action photos from the Route 66 Rendezvous Autocross event, in sunny So Cal, thanks to Laura McKernan who had her picture taking finger working like a champ. Well...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best/Most Borderline Hack Impromptu Roadside Repair?

I had forgotten about this cell phone photos that I zapped while driving out to Bonneville in August. It was apparent from a distance that all was not well with the Hyundai we were coming up on. The...

1320Video: More Hot Rod Drag Week Debauchery! 1100 HP Burnouts With A Trailer

As you know, we love 1320Video, and despite the fact that this video from Hot Rod Drag Week has been out for a couple weeks, we just had to post it up here. It shows some typically sick Drag Week...

BangShift Question of the Day: What Was Your First Automotive Crush?

Walking through a large cruise night this summer, I saw a 1969 Charger and stopped in my tracks like someone had just hit me with a Louisville Slugger. The copper 1969 Charger with the white vinyl...