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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 7 Racing Action! We Hope They Got Good Rest, Because The Desert Isn’t Playing!

It’s Stage 7, after a full day of rest, but the desert didn’t take a break. It’s ready to rock each and every day, and Stage 7 is no different. In the video below you’ll see Stage...

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Paint and Body Tech: The RIGHT Way To Paint Chrome, So It Actually Lasts, Doesn’t Flake, And Looks Great

During the monochromatic paint craze of the 1980s and 1990s, there were a LOT of chrome parts getting painted to match the body color of whatever hot rod, muscle car, or custom truck they were on....

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera 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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Tool Tech: The BEST Swivel Adapters for Sockets! Putting Swivel Adapters Through Their Paces To Find Out Who’s Best

We’re back with more tool tests, which you know we love around here, and this time it’s swivel adapters that are being test. We all love a good wobbly socket, but if you don’t have...

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WORLDS WORST Corvette! Will It FINALLY RUN and ROAD TRIP? Derek At Vice Grip Garage Has Got His Work Cut Out On This One

I’m a fan of a C4 Corvette, but I’m not sure that this one isn’t cursed. When Derek got it and started working on it, the problems became bigger and bigger and bigger. It had an...

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What is Tony’s LEAST FAVORITE part of Hot Rodding? Finishing One. But That’s The Plan For His 1970 HEMI Dart Swap!

I think most hot rodders have the same problem as Tony when it comes to finishing our rides. I know I’m the same way. I think it’s Attention Deficite Hot Rod Disorder. ADHRD. We all...

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Classic YouTube: Sylvain Noël vs. Mario Racicot At The 2014 St Joseph de Beauce Race!

Out of all places, it’s gotta be Quebec that has some of the most wicked semi trucks doing more than just hauling the daily load. Any camion racing that goes down in the Francophile province...

The List: Here’s The 2018 SCTA Bonneville Speed Week Pre-Entry List – Cars, Bikes, Countries!

Tick tock…tick…tock. That’s the sound of the clock counting down to the start of Speed Week 2018 which will happen this Saturday. BangShift has loved covering Bonneville as hard and...

Crazy Video: Watch The Wild Fuel Altered Wreck Between The Psycho Therapy And Nitro Madness At Eddyville

For 50 years fuel altereds have been considered the most crazed, dangerous, and unpredictable machines to traverse drag strips of any length and for 50 years they have been producing tangible...

Seems Like A Deal? We Found Nine Sets Of Former NASCAR Toyota Heads For $2,000

Racing is an incredible thing for many reasons but the financial side of it is just staggering, especially on the top echelon of professional competition. Stuff that is the hot ticket one minute is...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: Saturday Morning And The Start To A Long Day Of Awesome

The schedule for Saturday said 8am-midnight. But as Chad and I woke up and prepared for the day, we knew better. Just on car count alone, I made the guess of being at the track until three in the...

Street Car Takeover Bowling Green! The Throwdown Of Big Boys Was A Battle!

While Chad and I watched pair after pair of machines try to make mincemeat out of each other in St. Louis, the Street Car Takeover Bowling Green event was going down, with Beech Bend Raceway hosting...

Relive The Coolness Of The 1988 NHRA Northstar Nationals – Force, Christian, Amato

After a weekend off for the teams to rest and reload after the western swing, the NHRA will roll into the great state of Minnesota for the 2018 Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway....

Video: Capps Scores 60th Career Win Where It All Began, Antron Brown Grabs 50th Top Fuel Victory

It was a big weekend for two of NHRA drag racing’s “good guys” as Antron Brown got his 50th career top fuel win and Ron Capps won for the 60th time in his nitro soaked drag racing...

Rough Start: What Can 131 Cubic Inches Do For You? This 1987 Shelby CSX Is Turbo Gold!

Taking a Ford Mustang and wicking it up isn’t much of a stretch. Taking a Dodge Shadow and wicking it up…now that took some serious talent and a bit of luck. The P-body...

Want A Wheelie Weird 1961 Fairlane? This One Has Been Shortened, Rear-Motored, and Stands Up At Will

From the famed Hemi Under Glass to the Roadkill Stubby Bob truck, there is a fascination out there with building vehicles that pull wheelies. That fascination caught the eye of our own dedicated...

Meet The Beast! Burnout Legend Kranky Gives Hoonigan A Lesson In Tire Frying!

As we learned early on in BangShift’s existence with Burnout Mondays, if you think an Australian is down for taking the silver medal in the tire-frying competition, we have some very bad news...

Double-Standards? FCA Is Trying To Shut Down Mahindra’s Roxor UTV In The United States!

Here’s a case study that will be interesting to watch: is a more-or-less copy of the original variation of a vehicle enough of a threat to the manufacturer of the modern-day version that the...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: Pro Mods, To The Lanes! Friday’s Qualifier For The 37 Big Hitters!

Keith Haney and those that help put the Mid-West Pro Mod series together have to be over the moon with the showing that went down in St. Louis this weekend. Thirty-seven big-tire monsters showed up...

Awesome Bill From Dawsonville Is Going To Run Road America! Bill Elliott Will Be At The Johnsonville 180!

Well, now! This might be some of the best news we’ve seen come out of NASCAR in a minute! Bill Elliott, the holder of the top speed record in NASCAR in that 1987 Thunderbird, the man who could...