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Lifter Ill Redux: A Demonstration Of The Gen 3 Hemi Camshaft And Lifter Issue

One of the most infamous videos Uncle Tony has ever released  was his call-out of the cam and lifter issue that third-gen Hemi engines have been known for. The answer is pretty much the same,...

The Fall Throwdown In T-Town Goes LIVE This Afternoon! FREE Livestreaming Drag Racing Right Here Friday and Saturday!

The Throwdown in T-Town races at Tulsa Raceway Park are some of our favorite events of the year, because not only do they celebrate everything that is awesome in the drag racing world, but they do it...

Radio Silence: Tesla’s PR Team Is Officially Disbanded

I can’t say I’ve got a lot of experience working with manufacturers directly in my few short years of writing for BangShift. I’ve had positive experiences with GM and Ford, and...

The Towing Wars Continue: Now GM Is Getting Involved!

For years now, Ford and Ram have been locked in a battle of supremacy over who can haul the most ass. Okay, bad choice of words…in a few aspects. Historically, Mopar and the Blue Oval folks...

Classic YouTube: Cruising Los Angeles Around 1950

It is strange to think that we’re over a century into the automobile properly. The changes that have happened in the sea of vehicles that make up the typical photograph of what was around in...

Watch These Two Belgian Draft Horses Help Tug A Stuck Semi Up A Frozen Driveway

While things like tractors replaced horses for the majority of the work done at a farm, it was not because the horses were weaklings and this video, taken just about a week ago is living proof of...

Epic Story Time: Pat Musi, Rickie Smith, and Roy Hill Talk About How Things Were Done Back In The Day

Three of drag racing’s most legendarily intense competitors sitting around and telling stories. This is the kind of stuff that you cannot pay to see. Pat Musi, Rickie Smith, and Roy Hill...

VIDEO: Prepare to be obsessed with Dave Roper, the first American to win at the Isle of Man TT

Dave Roper is a motorcycle racer. Not one of those slick, Italian Valentino Rossi-types, surrounded by a bevy of umbrella-wielding hot chicks with a massive transporter to carry this 200-pound GP...

Cool Suspension Video: Ride UNDER A 1988 Thunderbird As It Attacks The Autocross

We have not run a good “under car” suspension video for a while now and frankly, we’re sorry. The goal is to make up for lost time with this one, though. We’ll be riding under...

Shut Up, It’s A Great Idea: Furze’s Flame-Throwing Screw Tank Is Finished!

Imagine, just for a second, that you built something like this in the garage of your house. All your neighbors have heard for weeks on end is the sound of welding, of grinding, of drilling and...

Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Back On All Four Feet!

In case you missed our veiled update on Project Great Pumpkin, the 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia that has been in my wife’s family since new, here’s a rough synopsis: I had finally gotten off of...

Brakes For The Booger: Getting The Flooded F-150 Mobile

If you watch Ford ads of today, all they seem to tout is how the vehicle will do just about every ounce of driving for you. Scared of parking in a city? The Explorer will let you know when it has...

Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Our Final Gallery From The Blue Oval Troupe

The leaves are tinging, and soon they will be falling. The morning dew on the windshield is starting to frost up. Normally, this time of year is where the racing and the car shows end and we settle...

Mad Mike Whiddett And His 4-Rotor Mazda Wants To Rip Your Face Off – Listen To The Racket This Thing Makes

We have featured Mad Mike Whiddett’s antics here on BangShift before. The Aussie drifter has had a string of pretty angry rotary powered Mazdas and the car he brought to Goodwood in 2018 was no...