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Watch This Fourth Generation Camaro Spin A Donut In The Middle Of The Strip And Hit Nothing

Last weekend was a big one in the sport of drag racing. The NHRA had its Gatornationals rocking and rolling, the PDRA was racing at Tulsa Raceway Park, and the third running of the Outlaw Street Car...

StreetGrip Video: Watch Install Of RideTech StreetGrip System On A 427ci 1968 Chevelle At A Car Show!

We’ve been telling you about how cool the StreetGrip system that RideTech designed and engineered has been for months. We did an install on an El Camino and were pretty astonished by the...

Watch Ken Kull’s Twin Blown Hemi Powered Front Engine Dragster Kill Tires At Beaver Springs Dragway

There are plenty of guys who will probably roll their eyes at the sights and sounds of Ken Kull’s awesome twin engine blown hemi dragster. Why? Well, because it was built as an exhibition...

Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio

For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...

Would You Rather, The Not-Quite-A-Musclecar Edition: Clean LeMans Or California-Find Dodge Coronet?

Not every Pontiac was a GTO Judge. Not every Mopar was a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack. Not every Mustang had a Boss or a Cobra Jet under the hood. For decades, the 1964-1974 Musclecar Era has been solidly...

Bench Racing: How Would You Prepare This 5-speed 1987 Mercury Cougar?

If there is one thing I know that BangShifters are good for, it’s spending other people’s money when it comes to a project car build. And I’m amazed that we don’t exploit that...

Corvette And Porsche Meet The Wall After Meeting Each Other At The 12 Hours Of Sebring!

A wet racetrack and a ton of IMSA sports cars make for wild racing, and the 12 Hours of Sebring provided plenty of wild racing scenes, but not many were wilder than the tangle-up between Porsche...

World Record Holding Subaru! 7.29@200 MPH, With Subaru Power Installed!

We know that Subarus can be fast, but we’re used to the later-model STIs that came to our shores late. In Australia, they got the hot WRX models straight from Japan in the 1990s, and while they...

This Is What It Looks Like When You Ride Your Dirtbike Into A Barbed Wire Fence At 30 MPH

As I have mentioned many times in the past, there are some fundamental things keeping me from becoming a motorcycle enthusiast. The first is a distinct lack of coordination and fine motor skills and...

It Came From Craigslist: The Ford Ute We Needed, Not The One We Deserve!

The basic plan for the two major American ute designs was to take the station wagon body, give it the coupe doors and turn the rest of the area into a bed. It’s a solid plan, it’s a cheap...

REPLAY: FREE Live Streaming Drag Racing From Muscle Cars At The Strip

That’s right folks, it’s ANOTHER FREE LIVE Streaming Video weekend here at BangShift.com! That will be our 4th weekend in a row, and we’ve got another race the following weekend...

This Vintage NASCAR Video From The 1964 Riverside 500 Is Fantastic, Tragic, And Enthralling

As much as lots of people don’t want to admit it, one of the reasons that racing was so popular in the 1960s was because it was high theater. Really, it was. You had these huge colossus...

It Came From Craigslist: We Found G.I. Joe’s Hot Rod In The Form Of A 1972 AMC Javelin Trar!

As I write this, it’s two in the morning and I’m possibly hallucinating. I say that because there is no possible way that somebody mated up a “military frame” and a...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Window Shopper

By age, I fall into the area where I grew up without the Internet until just before I graduated high school. Referred to as the “Oregon Trail” generation (for the game we played on Apple...