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Unveiled: 2021 Dodge SRT Durango Hellcat, Charger Redeye, and Challenger Super Stock

First, we got the Hellcat twins. 707 horsepower in 2015 was a bomb blast to the automotive world. Prior to that, Ford had blessed the Shelby GT500 with 662 horsepower and FCA looked to be circling...

See Mark Taliaferro Suffer A Wild Alky Dragster Crash At NHRA Seattle 2014 From The Perspective Of The Engine!

Back in 2014, NHRA top alcohol dragster driver Mark Taliaferro experienced a really nasty wreck in his race car. You have likely seen the footage of the car shooting across the track, hitting the...

Video: Watch A Wild V8, Zoomie Piped, Functional Riding Lawn Mower Hit The Chassis Dyno In Australia

Thanks to Aussie BangShifter John Tearle, we were tipped off to this awesome footage of a home built combination consisting of a riding lawn mower, a five liter V8 engine, 700R4 transmission,...

Amazing Video: 1966 AHRA Finals In Texas – Full Color, Sound, Etc – Bronco Buster, Canuck, Amazing Cars

I find myself too often saying that we’ve found or been tipped off to the best vintage drag racing video on the internet but the reality is that each time we think we see one that cannot be...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride In Kevin Guthrie’s Jeffco Shifted Outlaw 10.5 Bubble Top

There are guys who do things differently than the rest and we tend to celebrate those guys around here at BangShift because they keep life interesting. Kevin Guthrie is one of those guys because...

Video: Ride Along On A Helmet During A 5.98-second Quarter Mile Nitro Drag Bike Pass!

Guys that ride nitromethane burning motorcycles are completely nuts. This video shows British rider Ian King making an awesome 5.98 second lap at the Tierp Arena in Sweden. There is no crash, no...

What Depreciation? This BMW 6-Series Is One Evil-Sounding Rally Monster!

I actually had to go research when the “new” BMW 6-series coupes were first produced: 2004. That means that at the oldest, this particular mud-flinging example is sixteen years old. Which...

Classic YouTube: Cannonballs Off A Sunken Dodge, A Freightliner, And A Severely Abused Crown Vic!

My brain is still trying to process what, exactly, was going on in Moncton, New Brunswick last year. Was there something in the water? No, not the pond…that’s where the red, white and...

Watching This Dodge Dakota R/T Drifting Around Rockford Speedway Is Having An Absolute Blast

The 1998-2003 Dodge Dakota R/T is a riot in disguise. Shoving the 250hp/345tq 360 into the Dakota and backing up the powertrain with a 9.25″ rear packing 3.92 gears, the Dakota surprised those...

Truck Feature: Evel Knievel’s 1974 Mack FS786LST Is A Thing Of Total Wonder

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – When Joe Grippo told us that he was going to the Mack Historical Museum in Pennsylvania we were jealous. After all, so much trucking goodness packed into one location...

Historic Footage: Honda’s Commercial For The 1981 ATC 250R Three Wheeler

Three wheelers are some of the biggest fun you can have when it comes to all-terrain vehicles, and of all of the ones sold, Honda’s ATC 250R was the one to have. Not knocking the Big Red or the...

Take A Ride In A Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Down The Track! Laurie Cannister Is Driving

During my years as an IHRA staff announcer, I saw a lot of Laurie Cannister. She drove fast stuff from blown dragsters, into alcohol funny cars, and ultimately she spent some time driving nostalgia...

Knife Edge: Watch Trials Rider Toni Bou Make An Absolute Mockery Of Physics

Trials riders are insane, pure and simple. It’s a bit odd to compare them to any other motorcycle discipline, because unlike motocross, GP, Dakar or even sidecar motocross, trial riders...

Vintage Corvair Funny Car Video: Tons Of Photos, Vintage Radio Ads, And A Wreck On Film

One of the cooler funny car bodies of the 1960s was that of the Chevrolet Corvair. While the cars raised all kinds of controversy as road going vehicles, there funny car counterparts acted like...