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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

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2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

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Dead Car Rolling: Take In The Final Moments Of A Condemmed Mercedes

The only thing worse than seeing the frontal offset crash of a 2017 Mercedes E-class actually happening is the moment just before the car starts to roll towards the barriers at Mercedes’...

Buy This S&S Sand Car For A Fraction Of What It Cost New

When high horsepower sand cars became the thing that everyone had to have here in SoCal, they were commanding huge huge money, and then a lot of people lost their butts in the housing market and had...

This C7 ZO6 Runs 9’s In The Quarter, And Pulls The Wheels At The Start, With Bolt Ons!

New cars are amazing with regards to power, but most are big heavy pigs. The Hellcat for example. Makes 700, drives like it has 400, because it weighs eleventy thousand pounds. The new Z06 is a bit...

This Steyr Puch Expedition RV Would Look Right At Home Anywhere In The World, On Any Terrain

There is something about expedition rigs that just turns our crank. Ever since I was a kid reading about the Turtle Expedition, because of the stories in my favorite off-road magazines and especially...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: High-Speed Idiot, Rolls-Royce’s Rolling Brick House, And More!

I know that cooking late is for the birds, but it’s that time of year where it’s difficult to tell whether it’s late or not. The sun isn’t supposed to set at four in the...

Wheelies, Rooster Tails, Jumps, More Wheelies, And More Rooster Tails From Glamis Halloween

Watching this video, which is pure fun on the sand, and features nothing but buggies, trucks, bikes, and UTVs doing wheelies, throwing rooster tails, and jumping at the dunes of Glamis over...

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Rough Start: Splashing Through The Slush In A Ready-To-Go 1993 Ford Ranger Splash

The itch for a four-wheel-drive has been appearing again, as it usually does during the beginning of winter. Taking the hot rod out for snow donuts is fine, but driving it every day when the weather...

Ramp Truck Heaven: This 1963 Dodge Club Cab Hauler Is Big-Blocked Awesome!

There are tons upon tons of 1970s Dodge-powered motorhomes out there in the world, and for the most part, all we see are massive engine donors and rolling crime scenes. But one enterprising...

A Ferrari An Adult Can Drive, And That Will Only Cost You $3000! A Ferrari Tractor That Is…

It’s the real deal. Made in Italy. An actual Ferrari. This one without a body designed by Pininfarina, but a Ferrari none the less. This particular Ferrari Model 85 isn’t listed with...

Take A Ride In A Lamborghini Diablo SV – V-12, Rear-Drive and Wet Track…What Could Go Wrong?

The poster car. The successor to a line of cars that had taken the world by storm, from the achingly pretty Miura to the psychotic, expletive-inducing Countach. The car that was the true test of the...

Racepak “We Are You”: Meet Tim Anderson BangShifter, Innovator, And Aspiring Funny Car Driver

Creating the title for this blog item was hard because there are at least ten other descriptors to use for Tim Anderson, including his actual title of President. He’s one of the good ones. No,...

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Biondo And Seipel’s Spring Fling To Add A Third Event In 2017 And Purse Increases!

You know how much we love the Spring Fling events here at BangShift.com and we can’t wait for the Spring Fling Million 2017 in Vegas this year, but we’re also incredibly excited to...

Stock Car Saturday! This 1970 Camaro Will Only Cost You $475 And A Couple Parts

The couple parts are an engine and transmission, but that’s easy! If you can’t find something at the wrecking yard worth using, the worst case scenario costs you $2500 for an engine AND...

Dirt Track Crash Compilations Greatness: Not What You Should Show Your Wife Before Asking To Race

Watching this dirt track racing crash compilation is entertaining, but also painful! This is certainly not what you want to show your wife before convincing her you should by that Hobby Stock Camaro....

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