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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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Hellacious Fiery Wreckage Video: A Chevelle Smacks Both Walls and Explodes Like the Hindenburg

We don’t know what the hell is going on this week, but we were tipped off to yet another frightening drag race wreck video that features what Brock Yates would have called, “a whole BUNCH...

Remember The 1997 Hurst Firebird? One Of The Coolest And Rarest Birds In The Flock

Every once in a while we’re reminded about a killer car that has somehow slipped between the cracks of our sieve like memories around here. In this case it is the 1997 Hurst Firebird which was...

This Video Profile Of The MadSam Aussie Drift Car Is Great – Ford Guys Rejoice!

Obviously the Australians are crazy about their skid cars. It is a pretty fascinating scene because we don’t have it up here. The guys at Street Machine Magazine recently profiled a car called...

Hot Parts: COMP Cams Ultra-Gold ARC Shaft Mount Aluminum Rocker System For FE Engines

2017 is a great year for fans of the Ford FE engine! We have already told you about new heads and intake manifolds being introduced for this venerable big block and these valve train parts in the...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Highway Tune” by Greta Van Fleet (2016)

Seeing how I’ve just come off of the road after clocking another six hundred miles on the Chrysler’s electronic odometer, and how Chad and Cole are running a cannonball drive to get here...

Watch The Sportsman Class Eliminations From The 1976 NHRA World Finals – Tony Christian and More

We love this old NHRA videos and we especially love the ones that feature sportsman racing because the names and cars are always interesting. The NHRA finals are coming up in a couple of weeks so we...

No Runs, Drips, Or Errors – Mr. Gasket Now Stocks Valve Cover Master Gasket Sets In Many Varieties

If you are in the speed shop business, the engine building business, or the parts business in general, there are some things you need to keep on the shelf and we’d argue that valve cover...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Racing Quote?

The world of racing draws out some of the craziest, smartest, coolest, funniest, most intense, and most straight up nuts people in the world. Because of that, there’s always something...

This IMSA Bodied Monza Is A Neat Show Car With Barris History And A Slightly Odd Backside

Everyone has a favorite body style they they like which may be a little off-center. Some guys are madly in love with the 1990s Olds Cutlass as a body for drag race cars. Me? I love Monzas and I love...

Thursday Laugh: This Website Mocking People Who Block License Plates With Fingers In Photos Rules!

Sometimes you just need to laugh, right? In today’s world we think that is doubly important because there seems to be stuff happening every other day that you can’t laugh at. Thanks to...

Diesel Power Challege 2017 – Meet The Competitors And Check Out The Dyno Action!

Back in early June I hung out with a group of cool trucks and cooler guys as they participated in the 2017 Diesel Power Challenge. This is an event put on by Diesel Power Magazine where they solicit...

Flyin’ Fin: This 1959 Chrysler 300E Is An Amazing Example Of Mopar’s Top Performer At The Tail Of The 50s

While the GM products of the late 1950s seem to dominate the thoughts of many people when they consider cool cars from that era, Chrysler was really building the hot stuff. The “Letter...

How’s That Smoked Gap Taste? Larry Larson And The S-10 From Hades Win While Smoking The Tires The Whole Way!

If you have ever been looking for a measuring stick to determine whether or not you are a bad ass, this video is pretty much all need to see. If you are able to control a 3,500hp truck that is trying...

Would You Rather, The Aspiring VW Edition: We Found These Two Weirdos, Now You Pick Your…um…Favorite?

Making something interesting out of the Volkswagen platform is easy. The “people’s car” was very adaptable and has been made into just about everything under the sun: from dune...