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Category Archive: BangShift News, MISC, TECH

BangShift Approved Game Review: Test Drive: Eve Of Destruction!

Here at BangShift, we like to kick back every once in a while by picking up the ol’ video game controller and raise hell on the small screen. And of course, since this an automotive-related...

The All Pontiac Showdown From 1973’s “The Seven-Ups” – High Speed Wreckage

The 1973 cop thriller called The Seven-Ups featured Roy Scheider in the starring role as the leader of a group of plainclothes cops that pushed the edge of legality to get the bad guys. The movie was...

Watch One Of The Most Vicious And Awesome Flaming Aussie Burnout Performances Ever

The Holden you’ll see in the video is called UNLOAD as Aussies have this cool habit of naming their cars on license plates. Now, if there were truth in advertising and enough spots on the...

Watching This 1980 AMC Eagle Play In The Snow Is The BangShift Way Of Reminding You Winter Is Almost Here!

It’s official: any vestige of summer is long gone. The leaves are coming down like rain around BangShift Mid-West, the weather has taken a turn for the cooler, the sunset can be seen at a...

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Walk Through Jay Leno’s Garage And Take A Look At The Resto Projects: Cunningham, Mercedes And More!

Jay Leno: comedian, television show host and bona fide car nut. Whether you do or don’t like his material, you can’t deny that the man with the gigantic chin has a genuine passion for all...

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STAMPEDE! Hundreds Of Dodge Rams Take Over The Nurburgring For A World Record!

When I was traveling through Ireland and the UK a couple of years ago, I noticed one thing among all others in regards to cars: American cars of any kind are such a rarity that it actually catches...

Check Out The Current Projects In Jay Leno’s Garage: Stitching A 100-Year-Old Block Together, The Cunningham, And More!

The one thing we dig about Jay Leno is that he’s very open about his garage and what’s inside. It’s always neat to see what’s going on behind the scenes when he puts out these...

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Sorry, But There Is Not One Pic-A-Nic Basket In That Subaru Wagon, Yogi!

It is never a good day when you come out to your car and find something occupying it that you didn’t leave in there in the first place. For the owner of this Subaru Outback, that...

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Best of BS 2016: Ice Racing With Chainsaw Propulsion Makes Running With Scissors Look Like Amateur Hour

There’s not enough recreational activities that involve chainsaws. Sure the felling of trees, the occasional dismemberment, and scaring the hell out of innocent kids on Halloween are fine uses...

Watch As Friends And Fellow Racers Pay Tribute To One Of Their Own At Shakespeare County Raceway

You often hear and see racers talk about people they know at the track as “a family”. We do it all the time here as well, but what does that mean to you? Are you just used to seeing...

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Sunday Movie Day: Cledus Snow Saves The Day In His Big Rig At The End Of Smokey And The Bandit I

In a recent conversation with friends, we talked about how Smokey and the Bandit may have become the largest grossing movie of 1977 had it not run into another small sci-fi flick with the title of...

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Cool Metal Fabrication Video: A Master Blacksmith Makes Real Wolverine Claws And Then Mangles Stuff With Them

As you might have surmised from the title, this post has absolutely nothing to do with cars, but it has everything to do with awesome fabrication and metalworking skills and those are things that...

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Jay Leno Shows You What Is Being Worked On In His Shop: A Hemi-Powered Cunningham, A Porsche Restoration, And More!

Jay Leno is a car guy, through and through, there is no doubt about it, and he has the money to do whatever the hell he wants to do. But the reason we like what he does is that he didn’t...

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Morning Symphony: The Gumpert Apollo S Is As Snotty And As Powerful As The People Who Can Afford Them!

There is a phrase that I’ve only recently become familiar with that has an, to me at least, an interesting context: “F___ you money”. If you’ve seen the movie “The Wolf...

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