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Tenderized Turkey: This 1969 Hemi Charger Daytona Road Test On The Mount Tremblant Course In Canada Is All Time! This Hemi Gets Worked

Consider this the greatest muscle car road test video ever, even if your don’t know what the guy is saying. We got tipped off to this awesome film form 1969 by BangShift photo contributor...

Turkey Burn: This Aussie Style Burnout Extravaganza Was A Massachusetts Tradition For Years!

Hello from Massachusetts, the place that freaking invented Thanksgiving. That’s right. The Bay State, baby. Home of the guys with the buckles on their shoes and people appreciative enough of...

Smoked Turkey: A Cummins Diesel Blows All The Way Up! Cylinder Head and Most Of Block Launched Into The Air

BangShift reader TruckPuller sent us a tip on the wildest engine dyno failure video we have seen in quite some time. It features a straight six diesel engine on the dyno, which we think is a Cummins,...

Classic YouTube: Ford For 1970 – Torino, Mustang, Maverick And More!

I often get pigeonholed as a Mopar freak. Yeah, I know, my history points that way, with at least seven in my past and the most talked about being my Imperial, Mirada and Diplomat. But the truth is...

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again – Here’s A Rock Bouncing Video We’re Scratching Our Head Over

Before you start hucking rocks at us here, understand that we like rock bouncing, we get rock bouncing, and we think rock bouncing is generally bad ass. This video however has us scratching our head....

Hunting For Christmas Gifts In The Mecum Kansas City Auction: Two Fords And A Buick!

If there is one thing I truly loathe about the Christmas holiday, it’s being asked what I want for Christmas. I don’t want to be the guy that asks for the extraordinary or expensive...

So Wrong, So Right: The Turbocharged V8 Ford Focus Drag Car

I’m a total sucker for a front-wheel-drive car that has been converted to drive the proper set of wheels. Ask me about my fascination with any small-block powered Dodge Daytona, or the myriad...

BMW’s Method For Cleaner Production: Cow And Chicken Refuse. That’ll Offset The Carbon Footprint!

BMW is working toward being fully operational on renewable energy, a noble goal. As it stands right now, the Leipzig, Germany plant gets wind turbine electricity and the Spartanburg, South Carolina...

Little Rocket Man: Elon Musk Wants To Give The Second-Gen Tesla Roadster “Rocket Power”

Shortly after debuting the Tesla Semi (an over-the-road tractor, not another reference to his “D”), Elon Musk debuted a second, unexpected product: the second-generation Roadster. The...

Vintage Tractor Porn: This 1950s Allis-Chalmers Video About Crawler Tractors Rules!

It has been far too long since I last indulged my love of old tractors here on the pages of BangShift so let’s fix this today, shall we? Here we have a 1950s video produced by the...

Suffering From Snow Worries? This 6×6 Suzuki Samurai Will Save Your Sorry Hide!

We are heading quickly from the colorful and crisp Autumn season to what I casually refer to as the “cold, gray bucket of suck” that is winter. (Ok, Brian Gordon from Fowl Language Comics...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Grossest Substance You’ve Encountered While Wrenching?

In the last Great Pumpkin Mustang update, one of my future quick fixes for the 1980 Mustang was to flush the coolant system of the nasty-ass pond water that the car was utilizing as coolant. It was...

Hellcat For What? This Supercharged Scat Pack Eats ‘Em Up

(Photo credit: Mopar Muscle Magazine) – With the news of the upcoming Challenger Demon lots of people have been talking about how quick the car may be from the factory, how much it will cost,...

Cool eBay Find: This Ancient Joseph Van Blerck Marine Engine Is Cool And It Runs (Video)

Four cylinders, 350ci, clunking-clanking noises, and likely some amazing smells. That’s what you are buying if you get your hands on this engine that is 112 years old and is claimed to be the...