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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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BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Looking Forward To Anything That May Debut At This Year’s Detroit Auto Show?

We’re just a little over a week away from the 2018 North American International Auto Show, a.k.a. the Detroit Auto Show, and we’ve been monitoring the rumor mills and waiting to see what...

Holley Introduces 2300 Two Barrel EFI – Swap Your Two Barrel Equipped Car To EFI Easier – 350hp Capable!

Just when you thought that it couldn’t be easier to make the swap to Holley EFI, the engineers drop this one on us! Holley introduces the 2300 Two Barrel EFI system as a solution for those hot...

Morning Symphony: A Big-Block Malibu Suffering From A Condition Called “Swine Flew”

Racing isn’t going to happen around my neck of the woods anytime soon, it seems. Even my weather app on my phone is getting pretty specific about which body parts are going to freeze off if I...

Want To Go AMC Drag Racing? This 1970 AMC Hornet Goes 10s and Is AMC From Front To Back!

I often (probably too often) say that drag racing is not a beauty contest. Yes, your equipment has to be well maintained and hard running but it does not necessarily have to be ready to be judged for...

Pre-Mustang: This 1963 Mercury Comet S-22 Is A Fun Little Freak Of A Car!

When the Edsel brand was binned in 1959, a project for a smaller vehicle that was originally supposed to be an Edsel branded car got thrown into limbo. Called Comet, the model initially was an orphan...

2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Coverage: Another Blast Of BangShifty Iron To Feast Your Eyes On

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – The Hullabaloo brings out some pretty trick stuff and this Fox-body notch is one prime example.  The routing, craftsmanship, and attention to detail under...

The Farmtruck Burnout Machine? The Guys Built (And Wrecked) The Burnout Farmtruck At Summernats!

Farmtruck and AZN had a ball last year enjoying the sights and sounds of Summernats, the crazy Australian gearhead get-together that is currently underway. They loved it, but when approached to make...

Money No Object: A Flip-Front, 426 Hemi-Powered Power Wagon!

The 2018 Barrett-Jackson auction is completely full-up. They have maxed out their docket for the Scottsdale, Arizona auction and there are some very neat gems in there that will give the enthusiast...

Houston Autorama Coverage: More Hot Rods, Trucks, Sleds, and Muscle!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more killer photos from the Houston Autorama taken by the guy who has been their anchor photographer for a few years now, our own Charles...

NHRA Museum Hosts AA/Fuel Altered Legends During 58th Winternationals!

(Photos by Tom West, James Drew, Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt) The historic Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com opens the Mello Yello season this year, as every year...

BangShift Road Test: 2018 Dodge Durango GT Blacktop AWD – Two Weeks With The Burrrrrango

As New England is in the middle of a historic and brutally cold stretch like much of the nation is, we were happy when Dodge threw us the keys to one of their more robust offerings over the holidays...

Question Of The Day: When Did You Want To Hang The Engineer Of Your Car?

If you were anywhere on the engineering team that packaged up the Chrysler LX platform, you are not my friend right now. In fact, I’d be seeing blood red if it weren’t for the fact that...

Houston Autorama Coverage: Freezing Cold At Home? Come On In And Warm Up With These Snaps

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – So most of the nation, like 90% of it is in the middle of an insane cold snap. We’re talking second ice age stuff in some places like BangShift eastern world...

Behind The Ropes Part Three: In The Show! The Guys Pull Off A Hail Mary Pass And Bust In

In Behind The Ropes part three you are going to get a little taste of triumph as the Michalek Brothers Racing team, on their last possible opportunity to qualify manage to do just that and make the...