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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Optima Film Festival Finalist: One Minute And 10 Seconds Of Off Road Racing Insanity

We’re going to continue showing you the films that made the finals at the 2015 Optima film festival at the SEMA show because all of them are pretty flipping sweet. The other day we showed you...

In The Shop With Emily: The Motor And Transmission Come Out Of The Impala Project

Way later than we planned on, we’re back with the second episode of “In The Shop With Emily”. This is the web series that follows the adventures (both in and out of the garage) of...

Question Of The Day: Has YouTube Influenced Your Automotive Leanings Any, And If So, How?

YouTube has been the world’s greatest drain on productivity since it appeared on the Internet in 2005. A majority of my day is spent surfing YouTube for work, never mind what I do on my time...

SEMA 2015: The Strangest Sights At The Show – From Cars To B.J. Baldwin’s Pet, It’s Here, And It’s Not Just Because Of Vegas

I’ve been to Las Vegas enough to know that even when you don’t get completely and utterly drunk and blackout that weird shit can happen. From the six-foot-five rental car agency clerk...

This 1969 Blazer Ain’t Exactly Our Style But It Wouldn’t Take Much To Get It There

Isn’t it interesting how we all have different tastes in cars and trucks. What’s hot stuff for one of us is untouchable by another and what someone builds may have inklings of coolness...

RideTech Debuts The New Street Grip System At SEMA 2015 – The Perfect Formula For Fun

As we have been telling you, this year’s SEMA show was completely wall to wall with people, vendors, cars, and passers by who probably should not have been there in the first place. Because of...

Early Christmas Shopping Ideas: The Teaser Trailer For Gran Turismo Sport…FIA Supported, Online Play, And Two Real-Life Championships!

Gran Turismo has been one of those “must have” video games for gearheads ever since they hit the PS1 console in 1997. I know…I practically sold my soul to get one that year, and...

PDRA World Finals Action Photos: More Hard Leaving, Wheels Up Dragsters And Door Cars

(Photos by David Whealon) – Last races of the season always have an interesting vibe to them, right? On the one hand there is all kinds of anticipation regarding who will win titles and claim...

BJ Baldwin Takes On Bruce The Sasquatch In Recoil 3 – Greatest Truck Chase Ever?!

Here it is, kids! Recoil 3, the hotly anticipated follow up to the first two BJ Baldwin action extravaganzas is hot off the presses and ready for you to watch. In this video Balwdin takes on a tough...

This Boss 429 Tunnel Ram Is For Sale On eBay And Listed for $5,000 – Here’s The Reason Why

It is always cool to find big dollar vintage speed parts for sale on places like eBay because these things cut one of two ways. The first way is that the person selling the stuff is a crackpot that...

The Welderup International KB Ditch Digger Truck Was A Big Brown Hit At SEMA 2015

I have to admit that I am bad at television. I have not seen an episode of the Welderup rat rot building show on the tube but I have seen their work for years and I have liked most of it. I know many...

PDRA World Finals Action: Photos Of The Planet’s Meanest Door Slammers Getting After It!

(Photos by David Whealon) – What a difference a year makes! The 2014 PDRA World Finals in Virginia were a never-ending rain soaked event that tested the gumption and fortitude of the racers...

Crash And Burn: This 8-Second Honda Pile-Drives The Barrier Before Doing A Barrel Roll And Landing On It’s Roof!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamic forces go from being an afterthought to being a concern for any automobile driver. Lift is a genuine concern, and any air that can get underneath a car can...

How They Did It: A Behind The Scenes Look At The Making Of The #HelloJetman Film

Perhaps the craziest thing about today’s world of huge budget internet video is the fact that not just one complete crew of video people is needed to make them but there’s also another...