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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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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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Forget That Stretched Out K-Car, If You Want To Talk Chrysler Luxury, This 1978 New Yorker Brougham Will Show You How It’s Done!

Let’s be frank and honest: nobody, and I mean NOBODY, looked at a Chrysler K-car and genuinely thought “Hey, there is a symbol of prestige and luxury!” No. I refuse to believe that...

Breaking News: Aussie Racing Cars Driver Damien Flack Involved In A Race-Stopping Accident At Mount Panorama – Second Big Accident This Week On The Circuit

Damien Flack was involved in an absolutely horrifying crash at Mount Panorama. While running in the Aussie Racing Cars league (a support racing series for V8 Supercars), Flack got tapped by teammate...

Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo 2015 Was Cool: Check Out The Big And Small We Found At The Show

For all you full-size truck and side by side UTV fans out there, we have put together a gallery of some of the best from the 2015 Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo in Pomona last weekend. We’ve already...

The Car And Technology That Changed Formula 1 Forever

At the Ferrari circuit in April 1986 a change was a brewing. The Ferrari 186 and it’s fanatical following, which surpassed that of most Formula 1 drivers of the time, was about to change the...

Hooker Blackheart Releases New Products Covering Mustang, Camaro, Challenger, Swap Parts As Well

Hooker’s Blackheart line of exhaust products is targeted at late model muscle and they have really gone whole hog in expanding the line over and over again in 2015. Their biggest new product...

Hardcore Happening 2015: More Traditional Hot Rod Coolness From New York State

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – A popular urban legend here in the Western NY hot rodding community involves a huge backyard blowout party that consists of vintage and traditional hot...

Epic Craigslist Find: This 1986 Chrysler Executive Turbo Is Up For Sale…Who Wants A Sensible, Front-Wheel-Drive Limo?

Whether you love, loathe, or just shrug off Chrysler’s K-cars, you have to at least admit that they were the right choice at the right time. Chrysler damn near slipped under the waves, but Lee...

Right Or Wrong? This Ultra Clean Bronco Is Now A Slammed Street Machine

The first generation Ford Bronco is one of the most iconic American vehicles of the last 100 years. Short, fairly narrow, and very capable in virtually all settings, it was a nice evolutionary step...

BangShift Project Truck Spotlight: The Craziest 4×4 Build In The History Of BS!

It was ground floor BangShift forum member SuperBuickGuy who shot me a note a few weeks ago and rightfully whacked me across the back of the head as a reminder that we have BangShifters building some...

Great Use For A Pinto: The Mean Bean Rockbouncer Makes A Run At The Southern Rock Racing Series Finals!

Hot on the heels of the Plymouth Roadrunner that Dirt Every Day is building up into a Mad Max-like off roading freak, we come across this Ford Pinto that has been turned into a rock bouncer doing...

Ride On The Roof Of Frank Saponaro’s Wagon As It Pulls An Eighth Mile Wheelie!

Drag Week hero Frank Saponaro is going to have to start charging Cecil County Dragway an appearance fee if he keeps up with his high flying antics at the Rising Sun, Maryland strip. His awesome twin...

The 2015 Byron Power Wheelstand Championships Did Not Disappoint! Mass Casualties!

The photo above is when things were only sort of screwed up. Given the amount of damage we see each and every year at the Byron Power Wheelstand Championships you would think they were giving away $1...

Jeeps, Jeeps, And More Jeeps! Nothing But Jeep Photos From The Lucas Off-Road Expo 2015

Just when you think you couldn’t possibly have seen a Jeep that was “different”, along comes one that makes you turn your head. And since there were literally hundreds of them at...

This Might Be The Best 4 Door Ford We’ve Ever Found: Check Out This Fairlane!

This 1969 Ford Fairlane is spectacular. I mean epic. I mean both! For sale here in SoCal, this car is amazing. The asking price of $4800 might seem a little steep at first, and I would want the...