THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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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 Your Classic Le Mans Dreams In This 1969 Corvette Road Racer – Awesome Car!

While we can all fantasize about racing around Le Mans and swapping positions with some of the greatest racing drivers in history, the fact is that we ain’t gonna be there and likely neither...

Call the accountant: This Porsche Cup pile-up from Australia surely racked up a hefty auto body bill

Winton Motor Raceway in Australia has a reputation as one of the country’s more challenging and technical road courses with a number of “You screwed up there? Get out the checkbook.” corners....

Classic YouTube: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s WFO Drifting At Road America In 2010

Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny...

Ford GT takes pole for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, starts in four of first five spots

In the lead-up to the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, the new Ford GT program has secured the GTE-PRO class pole 50 years after winning at Le Mans with the venerable GT40. German driver Dirk Muller logged...

Wanna Cheap, Scary Fast, Scary Looking LS Chevette? Here’s Your E-Ticket Ride – Needs Some Work

It is ratty, it is cheap, it is set up to go like the wind and scare the daylights out of everyone in or around it. This is a low-buck LS Chevette and it is for sale right now. BangShifter Steve...

Super Freak: This Flip-Up Bodied Volkswagen Is Amazing! Watch This 327-Powered Surprise Work The Autocross!

The theme for the Volkswagen that Urban Hillbilly Video caught at the Mid-America Street Rod Nationals has to be “Expect the unexpected”. Why do we say that? Well, it’s a clean...

Would You Like Your Hellcat Chopped Or Mashed? We’ve Got Options For You!

So we have recently become obsessed with the IAAI (Insurance Auto Auctions Inc) website because they have zillions of cars for sale that have ended up in their possession through less than happy...

Inferno Photos: The Big Red Camaro Burns In Testing – Pikes Peak Hopes Go Up In Smoke

A day of hardcore testing at Buttonwillow Raceway in California turned into a nightmare for the Big Red Camaro team on Monday as the car burst into flames and suffered a major league fire. The burn...

BangShift’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Preview and Resource Guide for AMERICA

The 84th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans runs this weekend in France and, perhaps more than any other year, this one features America and Americans prominently. The race takes place, as the name...

Watch The Wild Conor Daly and Josef Newgarden Crash From IndyCar At Texas Motor Speedway

This is one of the gnarliest IndyCar wrecks in some time and amazingly Josef New Garden (who got the worst of it by a ton) was able to get out of his car under his own power. Yes, he suffered a...

Hot-Lapping In The Heat: Check Out Our Gallery From Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car 2016 at NCM Motorsports Park!

When Bowling Green, Kentucky, gets hot in the summer, it doesn’t just get hot…it’s that sticky, sweaty, funky kind of hot that makes you sweat in the shade as your sunscreen sweats...

Watch Dirt Racer Austin Williams Become The First Person To Launch A Race Car Out Of Perris Speedway!

It took 21 years but someone finally put a race car over the fence at Perris Speedway. The racer in question here is Austin Williams and thankfully he was OK after his car flipped and literally...

Rally driver goes for a wild ride down a 20-foot drop in Italy

Hyundai factory rally driver Hayden Paddon has had a rough month in the FIA World Rally Championship. At Rally Portugal three weeks ago, the New Zealand native careened off a forest road in his...

Thundering Video: Watch Roger Bolliger’s Gnarly Road Race Trans-Am Battle With Gerhard Jorg’s Vette!

There are some videos that have sound which would literally rouse the dead if played loud enough. This is one of them. Featuring the all conquering Pontiac Trans-Am of Roger Bolliger and the equally...