BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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The State of American Performance: Corvette ZR1X vs. Mustang GTD vs. Lucid Sapphire vs. Czinger 21C on the Road and the Track.

Horsepower has never been easier to make, more readily available, or more usable than it is in 2026. And while car prices have climbed, and I certainly can’t afford any of these machines here,...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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LIVE CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa Racing GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026.

It is endurance racing season, and boy is it in full swing! There have been more 24 hour races in the last few weeks than we could imagine, and there are even more to come. It’s summertime racing...

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The Last Gasps Of Winter At Goodwood’s 76th Members Meeting Didn’t Stop The Cars From Coming Out! Listen To The Legends Here!

With temperatures unseasonably cold over the United Kingdom and the threat of snow always just around the corner, it is impressive that Goodwood’s 76th Members Meeting event went down at all....

This Judd Indy Car V8 Engine Is A Different Kind of Boosted Bullet – Good Freaky Hot Rod Engine!

We’ve showed you Judd V8 engines before, mostly in videos featuring road racing and endurance type stuff. The dual overhead camshaft pieces are screamers and this one that we found on eBay...

Our Goodguys Scottsdale Photo Coverage Starts Here: Autocross And Car Show Photos Galore

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Cole left town last Thursday with a group of racers from SoCal on a caravan to Phoenix for the Goodguys Spring event there in Scottsdale. He arrived Thursday night to hang...

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...

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...

Lancha Gigante: This 1961 Chrysler Newport Is A Road Rally Beast That Needs A New Home!

Once it turns a tire in anger, any race car worth it’s weight will show signs of it’s use. It’s just a fact…no race car should be a concours-restored, picture perfect machine....

How Long Does It Take To Kill The Brake Pads On A Tesla Model 3? Nine Miles Of Track-Day Use At Laguna Seca, As This Guy Found Out!

In all honesty, even at 3,838 pounds curb weight, the Tesla Model 3 isn’t that heavy for a modern-day car, let alone a true electric vehicle. It’s affordable and meant to be the low-cost,...

Morning Symphony: The Mighty Roar Of The Upper Crust Race Car, The Bentley Continental GT3

Unless it’s kissed a concrete wall head-on at speed, anything with the Bentley badge is meant to be two things: sporty and expensive with a capital “F”. From the days of the 4 1/2...

Best In The West Award Announced for LS Fest West 2018

Listen up LS Fest West fans! LS Fest event staff are pleased to announce the Best In The West, a unique new award for LS Fest West 2018 participants. How will the winner be decided? We’re going to...

Is This The Ultimate Air Cooled Porsche? The Gunther Werks 400R Is Spectacular

The Porsche 911, and it’s variants, are some of the most icon driver’s cars in the world. I’m not a “Porsche Guy”, but I love the 911. I’d drive an LS swapped 944...

RideTech’s 48-Hour Camaro Hits The Autocross!

A few years back, we were a part of RideTech’s first 48-hour Camaro build with their 1967 Camaro. This year at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, they built a new 48-Hour Camaro and developed some new...

Classic YouTube: The 1981 Kelly American Challenge Race From Portland, Oregon

Between 1977 and 1989, IMSA had a race that allowed you to bring any American car to play on the roadcourses as a kind of preview race ahead of the IMSA GT main event. Dubbed the Kelly American...

This 428 Powered 1966 Mercury Monterey Could Be The Best Deal On The Interwebs Today

Intrepid BangShifter Matt Cramer sent us the link to this 1966 Mercury Monterey which is for sale in Georgia. For a shade more than $3,000 you are getting a factory 428 car with (from what we can...

Money No Object: Banging Gears In This Factory Five Daytona Coupe Replica Is Worth The Cost

I don’t want to know how much a real-deal Shelby Daytona Coupe goes for. Big money is the understatement of the century. But the replica market on the closed-in version of the car that Peter...