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Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The RM Sothebys Auction At The Hershey AACA Fall Meet In Pennsylvania!

We can’t thank Joe Grippo enough. He’s been a contributor here at BANGshift.com for so long that I can’t even remember when it all started. This is the third and final gallery from...

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230 MPH ROLLOVER During The Wild Qualifying Day #1 At World Cup Finals 2024 Import Vs Domestics

They should call this year’s World Cup Finals the carnage nationals if Day 1 is any indication of what is to come. If you watch the video, or any of the posts on social media, it seems like...

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Make It Kustom Cab Over Ramp Truck: Maiden Voyage Issues, Some Get Fixed, Others Not So Much, Lets Road Trip This Thing 4500 km!

When things aren’t going right, you just go all in right? That’s what Brent and Karl are doing on the ramp truck! It’s got some issues, but they think they can fix them in the...

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How To Make a BEATER BETTER ON A BUDGET! Freiburger Uses Some Simple Tricks And Techniques On His Giveaway Camaro

I know a couple people who can take just about any old car and make it look like something you want to own and drive. One of them is my friend Tommy, who has a knack for putting the perfect wheel and...

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Drag Car HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The Story of the Only Surviving 1969 Olds W-31 Factory-Built Drag Car, And It’s A Good One!

We are as guilty as anyone of romanticizing the cars and trucks of the 1960s, and in some ways probably more than they deserve, but this story here might actually make a 1969 Olds W-31 convertible an...

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Dylan McCool’s Forgotten Dart V8 Four Speed Goes Drag Racing! Will It Survive? Probably Not, But It Sure Will Be Fun!

Okay, that’s not fair, because in all reality I am not sure that I’ve seen Dylan at one of the events in Bowling Green where he hurt something bad enough to not survive the weekend. I...

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Video: Watch This Vintage Ferrari Flat 12 Engine Scream, Shoot Fire, and Turn 10,000 RPM

The late 1960s were not exactly awesome for the Ferrari Formula One program. There were winning on average of about one race a year and the company’s once dominant place in the sport was...

Video Of A Massive, Pre-Hydraulic LeTourneau Front End Loader Is Yellow Poetry In Motion

As I have established over the last thirteen years here at BangShift, I love old machines that completed huge tasks without the technology of today. Decades back, the work still had to get done and...

You Ugly: This Video Looks At Seven Race Cars That Can Literally Never Win A Beauty Contest

As things have evolved in racing, looks have been largely pushed to the side for functionality. It’s the nature of the business. Teams do not show up with the sole goal of earning “best...

This Video Of Paul Longenecker Power Wheelstanding His Top Fueler Over Backwards In 1973 Is Nuts

When we think about Top Fuel Dragsters blowing over backward our thoughts usually hone in on the infamous mid-1980s Garlits blow over at Englishtown or Eddie Hill’s horrifying wreck at the 1989...

AA/FUEL DRAGSTER – WALLY PARKS NHRA NOSTALGIA NATIONALS VIDEO LIKE NEVER BEFORE (FULL COVERAGE)

Les just sent us the link to his new AA/Fuel Dragster video from Bowling Green, and we knew we had to share it right away. If you loved all our March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion livestreams...

This Insanely Huge Collection Of Flathead Ford Intake Manifolds Belongs To Just One Man! How Did He Get, And Keep, This Many?!

Some folks collect cars, other hubcaps or wheels, some memorabilia, but then there are the folks that collect just one kind of engine part or another. We’ve all seen them online or in the swap...

Can Finnegan Tow Doubles With His Cummins Diesel-Swapped Chevy or Is It Gonna Get Dangerous?

Everyone knows I’m a huge fan of ramp trucks, and so is Mike Finnegan. He’s owned several, gave Newbern the bug so bad he’s building his own, and now he wants to haul more than one...

Easy Bolt On Steering Upgrade For OBS GM Trucks! Saturday Morning Borgeson Steering Box Swap That Really Works!

OBS GM Trucks have never been hotter, and there are TONS of parts available for everything from suspension to power adders, engines swaps, and so much more, but one place they really respond to...

SHIFT WITH CONFIDENCE. You Won’t Miss A Shift When It Counts With B&M Automatic Shifters!

Own your driving experience with smooth gear shifts and unrivaled control today! B&M is having a sale on their automatic shifters. My first aftermarket shifter was for the th350 in my 1969 Camaro...

Truck Show Photos: The Inaugural Grand National Truck Show. We’ve Got ALL The Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) • The inaugural O’Reilly Auto Parts Grand National Truck Show took place at the Fairplex in Pomona on September 16-17. It featured over 400 trucks, vans, and SUVs of...

IN FRONT OF SELLOUT CROWD, TASCA, KALITTA, ENDERS AND HERRERA QUALIFY NO. 1 AT NHRA MIDWEST NATIONALS

ST. LOUIS (Sept. 30, 2023) – Looking to move into the points lead in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs for the first time in his career, Funny Car’s Bob Tasca III clinched the No. 1...

FREE LIVE Streaming Video: Big Money Bracket Racing At The Fall Fling LIVE ALL WEEK LONG!

You know we are fans of the Fling races around here, and for good reason. If you like big money bracket racing, and a promotions team that really appreciates and celebrates the racers, because they...

Finnegan’s Garage: Rollbar Lights, Wedding Crashers and Another Unboxing Story. What The Hell Is Finnegan Up To Now?

Sometimes you can just tell that the person in a YouTube video is having more fun that others, and this is one of those. Finnegan always has a good time, and he’s a genuinely good dude, but...

Part 5: Questionable Garage Is Engine Swapping A Plymouth Duster THREE TIMES For Three Events! 3 Days To Swap Engines and Race, Can They Do It?

You read that right, three engines, same car, 4 weeks, three different events. And not just three different mopar engines. Nope, we’re talking about an LS, a Gen 3 Hemi, and then a Coyote Ford....