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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Rev On The Redline – Foreigner (1979)

Here’s a good listen from the late 1970s in the form of the Foreigner tune Rev On The Redline. We’d never heard this one before digging it up completely by accident on YouTube. The song...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Off-Road Race Would You Most Want To Drive In?

I’ve been to Baja, have been a Paris Dakar fan for decades, think WRC drivers are awesome, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing rules, and know that most all of the drivers at any of these, or countless...

Video: What The Hell Is Breslau? Apparently It’s The Most Bad Ass Rally On Earth. And Some “Creative” American’s Are Trying It.

We’d never heard of Breslau either. But now that we know, all we want to do is go race in it like these lucky dudes. The rally starts in Poland, and ends in Germany, after driving through crazy...

Video: 20 Minutes Of Awesome… In Car Footage From Bathurst’s Bill E Bad Ass Track… In An Imp!

“What the hell is an Imp?”  That’s what I said, when BangShift Web Nerd Scott Payton sent me this video yesterday. It turns out a Hillman Imp is an 875cc aluminum four cylinder...

Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: But It Was Cheap! Oh Those Famous Last Words…

In the last installment of Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, Rodney brought us to the present with some inspiring words about a driving school that he had recently attended. In this installment of...

eBay Find: A 1967 Chevy C-10 That’s Really The Bomb!

No we really mean it, the freaking BOMB baby! With a 125-gallon gas tank mounted right behind the cab, a shortened up chassis, and some nice cab patina, this truck could become Sputnik’s cousin...

Drag Video: Watch A Sleeper Turbo 460 Ford Powered Maverick Thunder Down The Strip – Street Sweeping Perfection!

Our buddy and BS photo contributor Tommy Lee Byrd unknowingly tipped us off to his buddy’s beyond bitchin’ sleeper Maverick the other day. This thing is a pretty basic combo that is still...

Action Gallery: Tug of War, Rock Crawling, And Pit Photos From The 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog

(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Yesterday we showed you killer mega-truck action from the 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow bog and today we’re coming back with a bunch more action...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Gotsta Get Paid – ZZ Top (2012)

(Editor’s note: We highlighted this one last year, but it is stuck in my head so here it is again!) The guys in ZZ Top recently released a new tune called, “I Gotsta Get Paid” and...

Barnstormin’: These Guys OWN Low-Buck

Dave Nutting was full of questions on the way to the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog last weekend and I was full of hypothetical answers. As many of you loyal readers out there know, I love trucks....

Video: Crazy Saudi Bastards Try To Change A Tire On A Moving SUV. The Key Word Is Try!

The Saudis take car stunts to new levels, and we’ve all seen them driving down highways on two wheels with dudes changing seats, climbing onto running boards, and all kinds of antics. But this...

Have You Checked Out Racing Head Service’s New Website? Do It Today!

When it comes to heads, intake manifolds, and blocks, RHS is on the bleeding edge of the market for small blocks, big blocks, and LS-engines. Their line of aluminum LS blocks has been hailed by many...

Watch A Totally Pissed Off Duramax Diesel Break Itself Off Of The Dyno – Torque MONSTER!

Know what happens when the dudes from Keeter Performance and Nitrous Express get together? They build a pissed off Duramax so bad ass that it literally breaks itself off of a dyno. The capability of...

Gallery: The 2013 Race and Performance Expo – St. Charles, Illinois

(Photos by Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – All the industry insiders get SEMA , PRI and other shows that are not open to the general public. With the midwest mid-winter deep freeze...