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FREE LIVESTREAM: Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2026 Is On! Check Out All The Awesome Rides Up For Auction This Weekend!

Barrett-Jackson is one of the premier automotive auction companies, and while they have big auctions all over the country there is something truly special about Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale. This event...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: Watch Every Day Of King Of The Hammers Right Here! The Baddest Of The Bad Attacking Johnson Valley Starts Now!

It’s time for a couple of weeks of off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026. We’ve got the livestream rocking right here the whole time, so make sure...

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

Here’s another great Photo Gallery 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 previous gallery, we’ve got a...

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American Power And Road Racing Prowess: Here’s 1 hour Of Pure Ford GT40 Heaven From Goodwood.

We love sharing videos from Goodwood, because whether it is action from the Festival of Speed, Member’s Meet, or the Goodwood Revival, you know it is going to be good. There are so many awesome...

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He’s Baaack! Steve Magnante Feature Videos From Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2026!

We’re so thrilled that our pal Steve Magnante is back out there crawling junkyards and sharing his automotive knowledge with the world. After a life threatening case of encephalitis, that...

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How to Chop An All-Original 1932 Ford Tudor: Chopping a True Survivor – Now That The Roof Is Back In Place, It’s Time To Tackle the Hardest, Most Crucial Welds — The A-Pillars!

The real critical stuff has happened. We’re talking about fitting and welding this original roof back in place, just a few inches lower. But now is the time for the most delicate welding and...

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Money No Object: A 1983 Avanti Done To The Nines

Ah, yes, the Avanti…the car that outlived it’s original manufacturer by decades. Originally Studebaker’s last shot at a true sports car or Grand Tourer and described by Studebaker...

Question Of The Day: How Many Car Brands Have Died In Your Lifetime?

With the news the other day that Holden was no longer building cars in Australia, it got me to thinking about how many car brands have gone by the wayside since I was born. That year was 1980 so I...

The Ultimate Torture Test? This Plymouth Minivan Dies Defending It’s Honor!

Chrysler products from around the year 2000 have a bad rap for being unreliable. And some of it is deserved, especially where transmissions and electronics are concerned. But not everything that...

The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!

There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...

100 Years Of Chevrolet Trucks: This New Commercial Is Pretty Awesome Wether You Like ‘Em or Not!

So Chevrolet is celebrating its 100th anniversary in the truck business in 2018 and they have gotten the party started a little early with some videos and a cool one minute commercial that takes the...

Rough Start: This Effing Jeep Has The Best Argument For It Ever!

We here at BangShift do our best to keep our site family friendly…at least, we stay within a PG-13 area for sure. But catch us in person sometime…we all are human, and we all can easily...

Bad Goat: This Pro Street 1966 GTO Owned By Hollywood Bobby Is ANGRY – Watch It In Action

Hollywood Bobby Treadwell is a well known dude in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. His 1936 Plymouth, with is nitrous snorting 632 was well known on the streets and the strips of the area and the car...

Watch the Most Spectacular Motorcycle Save We Have Ever Seen – Rider Thrown But Clings to Bike!

This is bar none, the craziest and most spectacular motorcycle save we have ever seen. The rider is Genki Hagata and the place is Infineon Raceway in California during a recent AMA race. Hagata was...

Watch The RTRA Texas Small Tire Throwdown Replay Right Here

It’s the final RTRA (Radial Tire Racing Association) race of 2017 and we’ll be LIVE from a 60 foot boom lift right here at BANGshift.com starting around 6:30 pm Central Time. We’ll...

Near Death Video: Dude Gets Half Ejected During Car Roll Over Contest

Riverhead Raceway on Long Island is known as a place where nutty things happen. From their 100 car Enduros to the totally whacked out roll over contests, the track is a promoter’s dream....

Someone Put A Jet Powered Mini On A Road Course In England And It Wrecked On Turn One (Video)

The idea of a jet powered Mini isn’t exactly original as thrust driven cars have been a “thing” since Walt Arfons introduced the concept of building a thrust powered, jet engined...

eBay Find: If You Want Ford 302 Tunnel Port Parts, Now Is Your Chance! Bare Heads And An Intake!

The Ford 302 tunnel port engine was really a glorious failure. Designed to take it to the competition in the SCCA Trans-Am series in the late 1960s the all-out effort from Ford engineers to make the...

This 1949 Buick Sedanette Has Some Junk In The Trunk, But Not The Kind You Think

Well, this is interesting. You are looking at a twin engine 1949 Buick but the catch is that only one of the engines actually runs and it is not the vintage cool one in the front of the car,...

Sending A Car Or Truck To SEMA? Enter The 2017 Gran Turismo Awards HERE – We’re Judging Again

One of the things I have been able to do over the last couple of years is work as a judge for the Gran Turismo awards at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. This is a bad ass deal because there are multiple...