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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: Testing And Qualifying 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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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 2026 BMW M Endurance Challenge, Michelin Pilot Challenge, And 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: 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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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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Powermaster Brought New Products To SEMA 2016 And We Got The First Look

Can you think of any sound that brings more of a sickening feeling to your gut than the “click” of a dead battery when you go to crank it? Actually, we can think of another…the sick...

The GT4586 – Get A Summary On The Ferrari-Powered Toyota From Ryan Tuerck Himself!

Blazing your own trail is never easy. The results might be worth it, the experience is always worth it, and the lessons learned from the painful sections of the project are priceless, but that only...

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The Mitsubishi GTO – Remember When Mitsubishi Knew How To Make A Wicked Corner-Carver?

Ah, Mitsubishi…where did they go so wrong? In the 1990s they had a great lineup of sports cars if you were looking. If you lived overseas, you got access to the earliest Lancer Evolutions, but...

Would You Rather, Push-It-Off-A-Cliff Edition: Ford Tempo or Chevy Cavalier

Prompted by a discussion I ran across on Facebook that was, thankfully, not political, I decided to pitch this one to the BangShifters. The real name of this one is “Would You Rather, Set It On...

Absolutely Crazy: Motorcycle Racing on a Street Circuit at Macau

This weekend marks the 63rd running of the Macau Grand Prix, which is kind of like the Eastern Hemisphere’s answer to the Monaco Grand Prix. There’s considerably less glitz and glamor—Macau is...

2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals Coverage: More Tire Burning Action From Vegas

If you watched the 2015 Jegs PSCA Street Car Super Nationals presented by Chris Alston’s Chassisworks here on BangShift you understand why this style of drag racing has become so popular with...

Tiny Car Times Huge Blower Plus LS Power Divided By Australia Equals Tire Smoke

Modern day top fuel cars do burnouts like a prepubescent boy in mom’s hatchback when compared to what the crazy bastards in Australia will do. And no car is safe from becoming a burnout king...

The Snowblind 1967 Camaro Is Pro Touring Greatness You Can Buy

The first time we saw the Snowblind 1967 Camaro, which was built by the gang over at East Bay Muscle Cars, we were impressed as hell. There isn’t anything untouched on this car, and some...

This 1984 AMC Eagle Deserves To Be Built Into An Off-Roading Badass – It’s Fought A Bear, How Much More Do You Want?

It proceeded the sport-utility vehicle, crossover, and the soft-roader by decades. It was rolling proof that American Motors could take a shoestring budget and stretch it to the ultimate, yet still...

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This 1949 GMC 3100 Is Laid Out Patina’d Perfection

I can’t tell whether it’s the patina, the stance, the artillery wheels, or the combination of all three, but what I can tell is that this truck is a bad ass. On the ground thanks to...

Not The Fastest, But The Wildest: Watching The Trapnell’s Monaro Is Unforgettable!

It doesn’t matter if you saw this Holden Monaro sitting still, blazing the tires off or launching off of the line in it’s infamous and iconic style…you’ll know that this is...

It’s Over: Elite Motorsports and Mopar Part Ways – Enders and Coughlin Expected To Be In Chevrolets

After two seasons of pro stock championship efforts, Elite Motorsports ventured into unfamiliar territory in 2016 and the results were not what they or their corporate partner Mopar wanted....

One Of The Coolest Jeep CJ-5 Renegades We’ve Seen Is Up For Sale! You Have To See This Thing!

A couple of years back, Jeep brought back the legendary nameplate Renegade to their lineup as an entry level vehicle to open the door to all things Jeep to a new generation of buyers. Many die hard...

One of Craig Breedlove’s Rocket Cars is Up for Sale on eBay

I won’t pretend to know much about this car, but most of you will know who Craig Breedlove is. One of the pioneers of rocket-powered cars in land-speed racing, Breedlove and his first pair of...