Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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EASILY Bend Rubber Hoses Without Kinking Them! Does The Hot Water Trick Actually Work Or Not?

I’ve heard about this trick a few times, but have never actually tried to form my own molded rubber hose using it. But this guy seems to suggest it is not only possible, but very very...

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Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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Fire Is No Joke: Gary Sheehan Recounts the Frightening Seconds During Which His Race Car Was On Fire

Fire. You’d be hard-pressed to find a word that frightens race car drivers more. United States Touring Car Championship competitor Gary Sheehan found that out November 12 during the final USTCC...

Kiwis Race Muscle Cars, Too: New Zealand’s Classics-Racing Series is as Fantastic as Any

One of the great things about the muscle-car era Down Under is that it really carried on in the late 1970s while the United States suffered through the Malaise Era. As a result, the Australian Holden...

This Skip Barber Series Racer Goes Last to First in Just Two Laps at Road Atlanta

It’s been a while since we’ve pulled up a good last-to-first run in a road race, so here’s one of teenage driver Jackie Ding ripping through a Skip Barber Winter Series field at Road Atlanta in...

Mopar Sunday: You Can Own The Chop Cut Rebuild Cuda!

Let’s face it, there are tons of Mopar show cars out there, and a lot of Mopar drag cars too. But there seems to be a distinct shortage of Mopar pro touring machines running around. Or at least...

This Pro Touring 1968 Camaro Is Done Right, But With A Twist!

The Pro Touring community has grabbed hold of the GM LS Engine platform with both hands and it seems like almost everyone either has an LS Engine or WANTS an LS Engine in their car. But at the same...

Bizarre But True: The California Highway Patrol Was Trying To Test Out Steam Powered Dodge Polaras In 1969

As if proof was ever needed to show that California has been on the “green” wagon long before anyone, here’s a perfect example that is completely insane and 100% true. In 1969 the...

We’d Love To Tear Up The Twisties In This 1964 Merlyn MK6A

If you haven’t ever heard of a Merlyn, we aren’t going to bust your hump about it. Historic road racing fans and racers will know them, as they enjoyed a very interesting history and...

Push Or Pull? That’s The Question. Which One Is Right For Your Mig Welding Project?

We love the videos that Miller Welders puts up. Some are long, some short, but all of them teach you something that will make you do a better job on your welding project. I’ve been welding for...

Supercars Championship Rivals Go Hard Wheel-to-Wheel in New Zealand

Headed into the 2016 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, many fans anticipated a year-long battle between Red Bull Racing Australia teammates Jamie Whincup and Shane Van Gisbergen. Supercars...

SEMA 2016: Victory Speed Equipment’s 1970 Corvette, Built By Hot Rod Chassis And Cycle

The halls of SEMA 2016 are filled with vehicles of all types that all have one thing in common: they are show-worthy. Why else would they be sitting on display at the biggest automotive aftermarket...

Russian Rally Driver Hits Wall on First Stage, Carries On to Podium Finish

Rally crews and, perhaps moreso, rally cars stand up to heavy beatings. Alexey Lukyanuk and his codriver Alexey Amautov demonstrated this earlier this year on the very first stage of the Azores...

When Worlds Collide: Magnus Walker And Sung Kang Trade Cars On Angeles Crest Highway!

Many, many personalities can be found if you learn to pierce through the throngs of people at SEMA. It’s not often who is at a booth, signing autographs and taking photos…it is the person...

SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)

If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...

SEMA 2016: Chevrolet Actually Asked Us To Flog Their Cars At Spring Mountain Motorsports Park And Tell You How They Did!

If the SEMA coverage so far makes it sound like Lohnes and I had one hell of a week…well, we did. SEMA wasn’t even the start of our week…Lohnes was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,...