Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Free Livestreaming Road Racing: 2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour at VIRginia International Raceway – FULL WEEKEND Coverage LIVE

It’s time for another SCCA Livestream, but this weekend it is coming to you LIVE from Road Atlanta where the SCCA Hoosier Super Tour is in full swing. There is a lot of great racing action going on...

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This 1958 Hillman Husky Two-Door Wagon Is Awesome But It Needs More Motor – Do You Agree?

Balance baby, it is all about balance. Ok, most of the time we have no problem with being completely unbalanced and out of our minds around here but there are some cars built by people with restraint...

Watch Brock Yates, Circa 1982 Describe The Way Real Race Fans Feel About Wrecks And The Drivers Who Suffer Them

Brock Yates is now and forever will be one of my favorite automotive journalists. From his books like Sunday Driver and Cannonball to his work for various magazines and his television coverage of...

Random Car Review: 1983 Ferrari BB 512i – My Final Answer To The “Pick A Car From The Year You Were Born” Question

You know that game: “Pick one car from the year you were born!” It’s fine for you older types, because it’s easy to select a cool car. In 1983 the pickings are pretty damn...

This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally

Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...

FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team

Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....

Is The DeltaWing Going To Become A Road Car? It Just Might, If Don Panoz Gets His Way

Panoz has built cars before, but in extremely limited numbers and only in two main models: the Roadster, which dates back to an Irish sports car developed in the early 1980s, and the Esperante, which...

This 1967 Video Shows What The Stock Car Racing Scene Looked Like In Lancaster, New York – Cool Cars!

While stock car racing always gets pegged as being a “southern” sport, history shows that there were guys racing in circles in all parts of the country for decades before the explosion of...

Video: Astoundingly Skilled Gymkhana Driving Action

Everyone and their mother has seen the incredible video of Ken Block wheeling a Subaru through a series of precision driving techniques and obstacles. That style of automotive competition is called a...

Frederick, Maryland Is The Home Of The Only High Wheeler Bicycle Race In America And It Looks Pretty Awesome

It seems funny to think about how revolutionary and game changing bicycles were in the 1800s. Today we just kind of take them for granted as bikes because they are everywhere. Kids have them, people...

It’s Official, Folks: The German Grand Prix Is Dead As Hockenhemiring And Nurburgring Both Back Out Of Talks With F1

For the first time since 1960, there won’t be a German F1 Grand Prix. Both the Nurburgring and Hockenheimring have thrown in the towel in regards to any negotiation with the Formula One Group...

Hotchkis Sport Suspension Goes BIG With Its Autocross Series In 2015 – Events Across The Nation!

It was big news when Hotchkis announced that it would be sponsoring autocross events at venues all across the country in 2015 but they have gone ahead and trumped themselves by growing the number of...

Ford Performance’s Latest Video Puts Vaughn Gitten, Jr. On Ice With His New RTR Competition Mustang

Y’know, something has been missing here on BangShift for the last few months: Ice racing. Yes, we’ve covered tons of snow-based sports, including Red Bull Frozen Rush this year. Yes,...

Formula E Will Be The First Race Series In Switzerland In Over Sixty Years

In 1955 one of the most horrifying spectacles to ever occur in motorsports happened during Le Mans. Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR struck the back of Lance Macklin’s Healey, struck...

This 1980 Monza Is A Cool Little Car With An Engine We Would Have (wrongly) Scrapped In Our Younger Days

While I don’t think I am necessarily getting any wiser as I advance through the years, I do believe that my ability to make rational and informed decisions is getting better. This 1980s Monza...