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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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Fun Watch: Behind The Scenes Long Form Buick Nailhead Assembly Video From Hagerty – The Work Behind The Time Lapse

We run every single installment of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild videos because they are so cool. We love how they are put together with a level of playfulness and fun while also celebrating awesome...

Videos: Hines, Anderson, Hight, and Billy Torrence Take Home Hardware From 2019 NHRA Sonoma Nationals

The second stop of the 2019 NHRA Western Swing brought the tour through some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States. Sonoma, California was the scene for the 2019 NHRA Sonoma Nationals...

Regular Car Reviews Meets The Tata Nano, And Realizes That Not Every Car Deserves Love

You want a car that all three of us mutually agree to hate? It’s the Tata Nano. Somehow in production for ten years, the little Indian two-cylinder wonderturd underscored everything wrong with...

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Classic YouTube: Ford For 1976 – When The Blue Oval Reached Pinnacle Malaise

Every one of the Big Three touched on every last bastion of the Malaise era traits: at least one gigantic car that was huge beyond huge; a mid-size class car that was still a monster; poser...

The Race Or The Experience? 1320Video Found Out That At Santa Pod, It’s Both!

We’re gearheads and car people first and foremost…if we didn’t have the automotive addiction that everyone who stops by BangShift shares, we wouldn’t be doing this job, now...

Morning Symphony: AA/GS At Byron Dragway – The Gasser Soundtrack!

Old cars, big engines, drivers with big brass ones that clang like church bells when they walk…you’ve heard the stories, read the writings of people who have done a much better job than I...

Money No Object: 1958 DeSoto Fireflite – From Peak 1950s To Dead By 1961

It’s 1958. Chrysler’s Forward Look cars had a barnburner of a year in 1957…but that was before customers started adding the phrase “quality control” to their lexicon as...

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Just Keep Wrenching: Watching Hoonigan’s Audi Come To Life Proves That Patience Is A Virtue

The last time anything was really mentioned about my project Imperial coupe, it wasn’t pretty. In fact, I was back on the fence about ripping out the engine, transmission, and bits I could...

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Unhinged: The Beaten Horse Project Concept

The first time I saw the 1973 Mercury Comet GT, it was bright red with blacked-out trim. And that was the last time I saw it with any sort of red showing whatsoever. I’ve referenced this...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Don’t Do It, Chevrolet!

I’d write a paragraph here, but honestly I’ve spent two days giving myself heat exhaustion while giving the Raven Imperial the mechanical equivalent of CPR. The good news? It runs again,...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Plenty Of Room For Innuendo In The Back!

This is your official warning…there be innuendo ahead. Not afraid? Read on. Not interested? Check out another story! Work doesn’t always suck. There’s the days where you and your...

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The “WTF?!” Files: A Violent Mud-Bogging Camaro/HMMWV Hybrid

Chopped-up first-gen Camaro, check. LS swap, check. Mud tires on a Camaro trar that has the words “The Honky Donk” across the spoiler, check. Cue up the hate mail, today’s the day....

Unhinged: There Will Be No Motorcycles Racing The 2020 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has prestige, has international appeal, and above all else, has danger…racers blast up the side of Pikes Peak in Colorado, stopping at the summit....

Finnegan Shows Off The Death Metal Charger, Lights Stuff On Fire, And Wonders If His Stuff Will Blow Up Or Not

I feel for Finnegan on this one, because I’ve broken a car and been too dejected to deal with it at the time, only to find out later that more stuff was broken when it is time to get it done at...