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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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Take A Walk Through The Hoonigan Shop And Check Out What’s Just Sitting Around!

Sometimes, you have to stop and take stock of what’s going on in the garage. In my garage, there’s three engines, two transmissions, an engine hoist that is eating up a metric ton of...

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Morning Symphony: The Unholy Wail Of An Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Rally Car

Wait a minute. Wait just one freaking minute. “Rally car?” An Aston Martin Rally Car. Yeah, you read that right, readers, an Aston Martin Vantage GT4 playing on a rally course. I’ll...

Rough Start: Will This Minty Pinto Be The Cheap-Car Start Of Something Good?

Even by BangShift standards, a Doublemint-green Ford Pinto station wagon is pushing things just a little bit. We can give the Pinto all the crap in the world about exploding gas tanks and lawsuits...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Ready For Chinese Cars?

For a few years now, the question of whether or not Chinese cars would ever be sold in America was nearly laughable…there was no way. No manufacturer had the inroads, and nobody would want to...

Welcome To The New Normal: Motorcyclist Sues GM After Being Injured in Accident With Self Driving Car

Welp, here we go. While this is not the first lawsuit involving a self driving car, this is one that seems a little more interesting than those that have come before. A guy in California is suing GM...

The LA Run: Listen To This 416ci Small Block Mopar Work Over The Dyno!

The small-block Chevrolet is so commonplace that even though it makes great power and can be built dirt-cheap, people are just about sick of seeing them. Small-block Fords can absolutely romp, as...

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This 1977 Oshkosh Is A 300hp Truck That Hauls Around A 450hp Snowblower

While we have not had a ton of snow around BangShift eastern world HQ in Massachusetts, there’s nothing better than being prepared, right? In this case we have found a truck that’s so...

Hip To Be Square: This 1970 Dodge 1000 is Very Rare, Very Cool, and Not Very Round

(By Greg Rourke) – I admit it, I get a stiffy for big trucks. No, not the seen-one-ya-seen-’em-all Volvos and Freightshakers one sees hauling who knows what down the super slab. I like...

Is This Thing A Hot Rod? The Seller Of This Isuzu Rodeo Certainly Thinks So, But Why?

The term “Hot Rod” has been used for over half a century now to describe basically any vehicle that has been modified in a manner that boosts its performance. Typically, the term is...

Morning Symphony: The Sights And Sounds Of The 2018 Monte Carlo Rally

Since 1911, the Monte Carlo Rally has been one of the top-tier premier rally races on the WRC calendar. It’s also the first, bringing the WRC teams through the unpredictable hills and dales of...

Be Ready For Anything With This 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air Trar – Just Fix The Brakes First!

Trars…we are fascinated by them here. Some versions more than others, admittedly, but on the grand scheme of things, we tend to appreciate a car that has been repurposed into a four-wheel-drive...

Unhinged: Wait…Why Does My Car Need To Respond To My Emotions, Again?

At what point does adding technology to the automobile become stupid? I’m sure most of you will have the knee-jerk “it already has” response, and I don’t blame you for that,...

Wait, That Worked?! The CEO Of Lotus Just Got Lucky Over A Big Speeding Ticket Because He “Needed To Test Drive New Models”

Nothing, but nothing, beats that moment when you get the flashing reds and blues in your rearview mirror and you know, deep in your heart, that the uniforms have you dead to rights. You sit in the...

That’s No Aircraft Carrier: Take A Closer Look At The 1980 Cadillac Limo That We Drug Home!

We drove through a Halloween scene set in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky to get it, we drove it nearly a hundred miles back home, and we lived to tell the tale. If you missed the story on how I...