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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Rough Start: 1926 Ford Model T Roadster With A Rotary…What?

Buckley, Washington is an interesting little place that’s nestled right at the edge of the Cascades in Western Washington. Some of my stepfather’s family lived around the area, and the...

2020 NHRA Winternationals Photo Bonanza: Sportsman Cars, Alcohol Cars, Nostalgia Pro Stockers And More!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Variety is the spice of life and that is just one of the reasons that we love drag racing so much around here. There’s a class for every imagination and budget...

NHRA Time Machine: Watch The 1988 NHRA Fallnationals From Phoenix – A Duel In The Desert

Next weekend, the NHRA tour returns to Wildhorse Pass Motorsports Park outside of Phoenix, Arizona for the NHRA Arizona Nationals. This race is always a good one and with a historically cool forecast...

King Of The Hammers Shootout 2020: Scrambling For Traction On Idle Issues

Rockcrawling and rock bouncing in the dark in the middle of the desert…sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? King of the Hammers is an event that I need to check off of my bucket list....

Hustlin’ Hemi Video: Watch A Gen 1 Chrysler Firepower Hemi Get Torn Down, Machined, and Rebuilt In 5 Minutes!

The first generation Chrysler Firepower Hemi came straight out of the company’s experience building engines for various military applications. Transitioning into the post war world of...

Salt In The Wound: This 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo SS Hurts McT’s Soul!

Currently, it seems that everybody I know and their mother has made a pilgrimage to South Georgia Motorsports Park to be present for Lights Out 11. Chad and Lyle and Team Bigun are all present to get...

Morning Symphony: A Cheap Pit Bike Crossed With A Honda CRF450 Just Rips!

For most of my riding days, the bike of choice was a 1982 Yamaha YZ-80. Seems like a small bike for a kid in his early teens, right? I didn’t think so. The YZ had more than enough power to get...

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Historical Footage: Promoting The Durability Of Pre-War Dodge Trucks

Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had came from my great-grandfather as we drove around Colorado. During this time period, I’m about 16-17 years old, he’s about 81-82 years...

Watch This Russian ZIL-131 6×6 Truck Take On A Crazy Off Road Obstacle Course

The ZIL-131 was a staple truck in Russia form the late 1960s right through the 20-teens before the factory that made them closed up shop. They are rugged as hell, tough as nails, and we have shown...

Drag Racing Debate Show! Watch The First Episode Of NHRA Deep Stage With Lohnes and Lewis Bloom

It’s always fun to try something new, right? Well that’s what Lewis Bloom and I did while I was out in Southern California preparing for the 2020 NHRA Winternationals in Pomona. We jumped...

Flying Brick! This Beater Volvo Has Hacked Fenders, Nitrous, Upgraded Wheels And Tires, And A “Baja Bar”. That Makes It Invincible, Right?

If you have never had the joy of romping an old car for what it’s worth, you are seriously missing out. I’m sure I’ll catch all sorts of hell for saying so, but you will be...

Drifty Dozen: The Finale Of The 2020 Drift Week At The Hoonigan Burnyard

To this day, we still see a ton of negativity regarding drifting. I’m not here to change anybody’s mind, but there is no way that I’m going to ignore anything that involves a ton of...

Rough Start: 1977 Chevrolet Caprice – Something Seems A Touch Off

We kick GM quite often for missing the mark or some vehicles, or their habit of getting a product right just to summarily execute the model when things are finally going good. From the last Pontiac...

Classic YouTube: Merton Grundy And His Sweet Ford Van

The 1970s were bad, if you were into honest-to-God performance, muscular car designs, or hated the opera, where it seemed that everybody was going to wind up at if they had class and high social...