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Sleepers Versus The Upper Crust: Netflix Is Rolling Out “Fastest Car”…Interested?

It used to be that you had to hunt to find any kind of show about cars on television that wasn’t MotorWeek or TNN’s coverage (RIP). Now, you are spoiled for choice, but some of those...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was The Best Surprise You’ve Gotten?

If you’ve been following the build of Project Raven, the 1983 Imperial that I’ve been wrenching on since the moment I took ownership years ago, you’ll know that my history with...

The Eye-Opening Experiences: Check Out This Collection Of Psycho Rides From Sydney Jamboree 2018!

If it was a perfect world, everybody would line up, make a good burnout, back up, stage, and go straight down the track as fast as they can at the strip. There would be no oildowns, no wall-to-wall...

2018 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Are Here! Which one Is Your Favorite?

We told you the Easter Jeep Safari concept vehicles that Jeep puts together each year were on their way. Well, they’ve been unveiled and without further ado, here they are:   1. Jeep...

Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Hits Vegas And We Aren’t Keeping Quiet About It!

(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car returns for its fifth season on TV and 10th season of the event in Las Vegas. We love these events and are strangely...

Our Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Auction Coverage Keeps On Keeping On

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Just when you thought there was no way we could have more photos, we show up with even more. For some reason these bonus photos from Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale last month...

Nitro Vette! Randy Merrick’s Corvette Doorslammer Runs 3s With A Blown Nitro Burning Engine

Now THIS is BangShift approved! You are about to watch a video featuring the nitro fueled, blown Corvette of Randy Merrick as it attacks the track in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is effectively a pro...

Show Photos: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and more!) The Piston Powered Auto-Rama is the largest indoor show on the planet!

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – One of the shows at the top of my list each year is an insanely huge indoor show in Cleveland OH. The Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama...

Funny Carnage: The 2018 Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals Were A Festival Of Flopper Destruction

The historical record will tell us that Jack Beckman won the 2018 Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals but it won’t tell us the full story of an insane weekend in the funny car category. From John...

Backwoods Luxury Cruiser: This Chevy Dually Limo Is Long, Lovely, and Likely Does Not Smell Like A Dream

There’s pro street, there’s pro luxury, there’s professional, and then there’s whatever you can figure to call a dually limo. We’re calling it a backwoods luxury cruiser...

Rough Start: How About A 1972 Chevrolet Flatbed That Will Be A Bit More Affordable Than That Fast And Furious Truck?

I don’t mean to post two of the same vehicle on the same day, but this 1972 Chevrolet was just too good to pass up. I’m on a bit of a truck kick and you just can’t go wrong with a...

The Cure For A Bad Day: Banger Racing At It’s Most Violent…European Cars Against A Cadillac Limo!

The only way you know what is good is to experience the bad. That’s something that was instilled in me years ago. If you only knew good, how would you know what “good” really was?...

Money No Object: The Monster 1967 Chevrolet Flatbed From Fast And Furious Is Going Up For Auction

I may not appreciate the plot or the acting in the Fast and Furious franchise, but I will say that part four, 2009’s Fast and Furious, was the film that finally got me interested in the cars....

BangShift Project Files: A Barn-Find 1979 Pontiac Trans Am That Is Being Brought Back To Life

Sitting in a barn, covered in dust…yeah, the barn find dream is nice, isn’t it? We’ve seen the pictures of the GTO left in the barn, the Superbird parked out back, or the Mach 1...