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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Has The Best Sounding Factory Exhaust?

Like the hood scoop question from a while back, opinions on what exhaust “should” sound like is all over the map. There are those that lust after the sound of a Camaro with chambered...

Unhinged: The Kevin Hart Crash, The CHP, And What It Might Mean For You

On September 1, 2019, comedian Kevin Hart, along with Jared Black and an unnamed third passenger, were involved in a single-vehicle accident in Calabasas, California. Black was at the wheel of...

Ageless: Bentley Will Build Twelve Continuation 1929 Blower racers

W.O. Bentley was not having any kind of discussion regarding a supercharger and the engine in his car. “To supercharge a Bentley engine was to pervert its design and corrupt his...

Holley LS Fest X: The Motherlode Arrives For The Festivities!

The event is over, but we’re still coming to grips with just how huge LS Fest X really was. We’ve seen the drone shots, and we doubt we’ll ever know just how many tens of thousands...

The Coyote-Swapped Ford Fusion In Full, Unadulterated Action! Soppa Shreds The Burnyard!

The build of the rear wheel drive converted, Coyote-powered Ford Fusion is over. The car is wearing it’s new livery, the Coyote is hungry enough to go chasing road runners in the desert, and...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Safety For You, Because You Need It!

It’s been a riotous three days in western Kentucky as Holley’s LS Fest X rocked from sunup until well after sundown at Beech Bend Raceway and NCM Motorsports Park. But the tire smoke has...

Bad Decision Lesson: Australian Burnouts In Reverse Are Not A Good Idea

Have you ever tried to set automatic transmission fluid on fire before? If you haven’t, I’ll spare you a trip to the emergency room: it burns nicely. I accidentally spilled maybe a shot...

Watch This Right Hand Drive Kenworth Logging Truck Power Through Some Deep Water And Muck

The work that all big rigs put in is pretty amazing but the work that logging trucks perform is about as brutal as it gets in the trucking world by our estimation. The rigs are loaded to the gills...

Drag Race Time Travel Video: Hang Out At Thompson Drag Raceway Circa 1977-1978 – Frank Mazi’s Blown Opel and All!

Over the years here at BangShift we have featured some cool videos that were made at Thompson Drag Raceway in Thompson, Ohio. The place was a hot bed of gasser action during the golden age of that...

Fire Dance: Watch The Rice And Williams AA/FD Cackle At Night On 100% Nitro – So Cool!

Depending on what time of the day you are watching this video of the Rice and Williams AA/FD cackle, we have different recommendations on the volume level. First thing in the morning when you are...

Epic Video: Urban Hillbilly Has Put Their First Carnage Video From 2006 On YouTube – Bret Kepner, Scott Palmer, Wreckage Aplenty

Back before everything was posted on the internet, guys like Sean Melton of Urban Hillbilly Action Video made their money by making DVD compilations of their footage. Like the famed “And They...

In-Car Video: Make Two Full Speed Laps Of The Daytona Road Course In A Porsche 962 With Jim Pace

In the fall the massive and cool HSR Classic 24 Hour will take place at Daytona International Speedway. This event brings most of the nation’s greatest vintage race cars together and showcases...

This Video Of The Imperial Construction NHRA Alcohol Funny Car Making A Hub Dyno Pull Is Awesome

I love alcohol funny cars. As we have told you a million and a half times here over the years, they are among the most difficult cars to drive in the sport, they are fast as the dickens and they are...

Holley LS Fest X: Filling The Parking Fields On Saturday Morning

When you are working LS Fest, you are afforded the privilege of getting into the gate before the crowds are allowed in. In our case, the three of us were in at least forty-five minutes before the...