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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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Free Drag Racing Livestream: Wednesday Testing from the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Nationals at Darana Raceway in Hebron Ohio

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The first two events of the year have been awesome, and this weekend is going to be race #3 from Darana Raceway...

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Chassis, Suspension And Rocker Work On The Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication Swedish Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks...

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Rio Heat Show: John Jackson Heads South for the Loudest Show in the Rio Grande Valley! Plus BBQ Joint Visits!

John Jackson is back at it, this time in our home state of Texas as he visits the Rio Grande Valley for the Rio Heat Show. And not only did he capture awesome cars and custom trucks, but also made a...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Richard Petty’s Crash Relived By The People That Were There – Linda Petty, Ned Jarrett, Dale Inman, More

Richard Petty is an American icon. We can debate until the cows come home as to his rank in the all-time list of NASCAR racers but what cannot be debated is his dominance during NASCAR’s most...

Watch Lyle Barnett Drive Jason Digby’s Tooth Jerker Dart To Another New Leaf Spring Record! 4.19

One of the most impressive cars we have ever laid eyes on has done it again. The famed Tooth Jerker Dart has reset its own leaf spring drag racing record with a 4.19/184mph pass during the 2017...

SpeedVegas Road Course Is Being Sued By A Driving Instructor After Fatal Wreck

A driving instructor has filed a civil suit in Clark County District Court in Nevada with the aim of closing down the SpeedVegas track, following a fatal accident. Francisco Durban, who has been a...

Is This Two Lane Blacktop Themed 1964 Pontiac GTO As Cool As We Think It Is?

Ok, now THIS is interesting! The guy who put this car together did it with an idea in mind and he executed it to a T. Basically the mythical back story that he created is that in 1972 the famed Two...

That Howl: This Holden FJ Ute’s Inline Six Is Good For High Eights!

The Holden FJ line isn’t the first Holden product. That title goes to the Holden FX series, but the FJ was more of a mid-cycle refresh than a completely new design. The FJ was available in...

Money No Object: A Nearly Perfect, Low Mile, Manual Trans 1974 Jeep Cherokee!

American Motors knew to not mess up a good thing when they got the Jeep brand. They put AMC emblems here and there, supplied powertrains, and that was mostly that…you do not mess with success....

This Video Of The Pulling Competition At The 2016 RC World Finals Is Pretty Fun

We have shown lots of cool RC stuff over the years here at BangShift but we’re not sure we have ever showed RC monster truck pulling action! This video was shot at the 2016 RC World Finals and...

Watch The Bruder Brothers Make The Quickest X275 Run In History With Their Blown, EFI-equipped Small Block Ford

It was a crazy night of qualifying at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion on Friday. There were huge runs made in many categories but one of the most significant came from the Bruder Brothers in their X275...

MATS 2017 Gallery – Inside The Mid-America Trucking Show In Louisville!

The Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky is mecca for anyone who has looked at an eighteen wheeler or a dump truck as a kid and wondered what it must be like to sit that high up, looking...

Watch AJ Foyt Tear His Team To Shreds On National TV And Then Have The TV Crew Defend The Team

If there was one thing hotter than AJ Foyt’s exhaust headers during this race at Michigan International Raceway, it was the man’s temper. At the time this was filmed, Foyt was on the...

Watch This Modified Prison Bus Hook Up, Pull The Sled, And Yank A Wheelie While Smoking Like A Locomotive

Prior to seeing this video, the only school bus I had ever seen pull a wheelie was the late Ken Nelson’s “Cool Bus” wheelstander. Not to take anything away from one of drag...

This Video Of The Massive, and Ill-Fated Penguin Antarctic Exploration Truck Is Spectacular

Between the years of 1937 and 1939 engineers and fabricators toiled to design and build a vehicle that would affectionately come to be known as “The Penguin” and in 1940 the massive beast...

Never Quit: In 1997 Dale Earnhardt Rolled At Daytona, Had His Car Taped Back Together And Finished!

This is one of those videos that I ran across and immediately had a smile come across my face. Why? Because I remember watching this as it happened on a couch in Florida during a family vacation. I...

This 1983 Jaguar XJ6 Has Resto-Pretty Looks And A Chevy Under The Hood

If there is one game I hate to play, it’s “Pick a car from the year you were born”. How the hell do you look through the offerings from 1983 and pick a winner? You start at the top...

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