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CLICK HERE To Watch The K&N Southwest Showdown From Tucson – Big Money Bracket Racing
One half of our BangShift LIVE double header this weekend is streaming coverage from the 3rd annual K&N Southwest Showdown at Tucson Dragway. This event brings out the best bracket racers on the...
Dyno Video: 9,500 RPM Of Absolutely Wailing Big Block Ford!
Like drag race engines, truck pulling mills are designed to make maximum output for relatively short bursts. Sure, the intention is to have them hold together for as long as possible, but unlike say...
Brutal Torque Video: Chassis Twisting, Big Rig Wheels Up Action At The Rodeo Du Camion!
The “Rodeo du Camion” is a big event held up in Canada each summer that is a celebration of big trucks of all shapes and sizes. There are parades, parties, bands, and all of the other...
Watch The 1994 NHRA Gatornationals Right Here – Pro Stock War and MORE!
There was very little love in the pro stock word as the 1994 season began to unfold. There was the Dodge team anchored by guys like Darrell Alderman and Scott Geoffrion and then there was the Johnson...
Those Vintage Training Films? They All Came From One Guy, and His Story is Awesome
If you’ve been following BangShift for a while, you know we love to find those great promotional films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that at the...
Video Zen: This Home Movie Footage From The 1974 NHRA Gatornationals Is Spectacular
There’s something about seeing drag races through old home movie footage in the stands that we just cannot get enough of. Yes, it lacks the sound and production value of the TV shows of the era...
Watch The Awesome 1988 NHRA Gatornationals Right Here – Great Race, Great Stories!
The 1988 NHRA Gatornationals event was a barn burner. We’re talking about all the big names, all the big action, underdog stories, and packed stands. Back in the era of the ’88 season,...
Developing Taste: This W111 Mercedes Coupe Is A Pre-Production Beauty
Mercedes products are a strange thing for me…either I love them or I hate them, there is no in-between. For example: I love the W210 body E55 AMG, I think that for a sporting sedan it combines...
Engine Autopsy: Here’s A Look Inside The Ill-Fated DeBoss Garage 16-Cylinder Detroit Diesel
About a week ago we showed you the DeBoss Garage video of the guys buying a junkyard Detroit Diesel V16 engine, getting it running, and then blowing the sucker up for fun. It was going to be crushed...
Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!
How hard can it be to be a monster truck driver…really. You wake up, dress up in the kit, get into the truck, spend a couple of hours going balls-out for a screaming crowd, then you break the...
Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...
The 4.2L Checker Build: A Marathon Build Session In The Cold
Retrofitting a modern engine into a car whose overall design was more-or-less stuck in the 1950s is never going to be a cakewalk. Trying to get the work done in the snow and cold will leave even the...
Challenge Time: The Triple-Engine Lada Visits The Dyno To Get Some Real Numbers!
So, here’s the thing: looking at Garage 54’s triple-engine Lada, you would think that a 4.0L inline-12 experiment should make some kind of number. You would think…but here’s...
