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Merry Christmas From BANGshift! We Hope You Enjoy Christmas With Your Loved Ones And That Santa Is Good To All Of You!

Every year the message is pretty similar, and on behalf of the Reynolds family, along with our amazing BangShift.com sponsors, I’d like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry...

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DID SANTA FAIL YOU? DON’T WORRY, THE BACONSHIFT SALE IS ON!!! FREE BACON, Plus $250 Discounts! It’s The BACONSHIFT Sale At American Powertrain And It Ends January 9th!

One of the most exciting times of year is when the BACONSHIFT SALE starts at American Powertrain! With $250 in savings on your favorite 5 and 6-speed kits, there is no doubt this is the perfect...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: This BIG BLOCK Swapped Squarebody ROLLBACK Is Going On A Road Trip! Break In or Break Down?

This rollback has had an interesting life, and after a fire and some other drama, this one has got a new to it engine and transmission. The fire wasn’t on this truck. The fire was on the truck...

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CHRISTMAS TREES GOING 6 SECONDS IN THE 1/4?!?!? MORE CHRISTMAS TREE DRAGS FROM BRADENTON!!!!

Spoold Media was on hand at the Christmas Tree Drags at Bradenton, and we’ve got their video right here. We’ve already shared the video from 1320Video and KSR, but this one is different...

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MOONEYES Christmas Party 2025 Video: Classic Cars, Hot Rods & Models Together Celebrating 75 Years Of Mooneyes!

The Mooneyes Christmas Party is always one of our favorite events of the year, and I really do miss it now that I live in Texas. It was one of those annual shows that we really looked forward to each...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: DETROIT DIESEL Dually Squarebody! Will It Make It 600 Miles Home or Leave Him Stranded?

This thing is cool! Well it looks cool anyway, even though I’m not a big fan of the 6.2 liter diesel under the hood. And before all you 6.2 and 6.5 fans start bitching, know that I grew up with...

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Supercars Championship Rivals Go Hard Wheel-to-Wheel in New Zealand

Headed into the 2016 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, many fans anticipated a year-long battle between Red Bull Racing Australia teammates Jamie Whincup and Shane Van Gisbergen. Supercars...

SEMA 2016: Victory Speed Equipment’s 1970 Corvette, Built By Hot Rod Chassis And Cycle

The halls of SEMA 2016 are filled with vehicles of all types that all have one thing in common: they are show-worthy. Why else would they be sitting on display at the biggest automotive aftermarket...

Watch The Professional Final Rounds From The 1986 NHRA World Finals

Here’s a flashback to 30 years ago at Pomona. The final rounds of the 1986 NHRA Winston World Finals. This was a pretty great event with the biggest names in the sport slugging it out for the...

2016 SEMA: This Chrysler Town And Country Had The Classic Vibe Down Pat!

I’ve admitted over and over that I tend to dismiss cars made before 1960 unless they have that certain something that just grabs my eyes and commands my full attention. Take it however you want...

Relive The First Two NHRA National Event Wins Of Ron Capps’ Career – 1995 and 1997

Ron Capps is in the midst of an incredible drag racing career and this weekend at the 2016 NHRA Auto Club World Finals he has the chance to do something that he has been striving for since the first...

BangShift-Approved: GM Advertised the 1966 Chevy Impala Using Demo Derbies and Junkyards

Car advertising has changed a bit in 50 years. Maybe people had longer attention spans for sales pitches in 1966 or maybe ad agencies were more willing to go out of their way to do weird stuff, but...

Watch Harold Johnson Absolutely Wring the First Purpose-Built Airliner

Lost in the shuffle of Henry Ford’s legacy with the Ford Model T is another interesting innovation: Ford built one of the first—possibly the first—airplane designed specifically for passengers....

Money No Object: This 2004 Chevrolet Express Just Might Be The Ultimate People-Mover – Turbocharged LS For Twelve, Anyone?

This isn’t the 1970s, folks. The days of looking at a full-size van and going, “Hmm…you know what…that would make a bitchin’ hot rod” are long, long gone. Right?...

Drag Action Photos: Burnouts From The 2016 NHRA Dutch Classic

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It is a late season tradition that has held fast for decades. The famed NHRA Dutch Classic at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania brings out some of the...

Want Good Hardware For Your Rotating Mass? Check Out The New Pieces That MAHLE Motorsports Brought To SEMA 2016!

It’s easy to see pretty. Pretty looks nice, but pretty doesn’t take you far. It’s what is inside that counts, and that goes not only for the advice your mother taught you when you...

Cynthiana Rod Run 2016: Small Town America Bursting At The Seams With Hot Rods!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – These small town events like this are great.  The setting is usually very photogenic (which matters to me) and the atmosphere relaxed.  No one is in a...

SEMA 2016: Check Out What Omix-ADA Brought To The Show (Besides The Crackdown On Parts Fakers!)

Omix-ADA just might have stolen the show at SEMA 2016 this year, all due to the crackdown on Chinese parts counterfeiters. It’s kind of hard to get past the fact that the U.S. Marshals came in...

Russian Rally Driver Hits Wall on First Stage, Carries On to Podium Finish

Rally crews and, perhaps moreso, rally cars stand up to heavy beatings. Alexey Lukyanuk and his codriver Alexey Amautov demonstrated this earlier this year on the very first stage of the Azores...

eBay Find: This 1935 GMC Truck Would Be Stunning Restored But Will Anyone Do It?

This is one of those trucks that we look at and think about how awesome it is and then think about how literally awesome the task of restoring it would be. This would be a massive amount of work but...