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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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Street Freak – Part 5: The Chassis Now Has A 25.2 6.0 Cert! This Thing Is Nuts! All Wheel Drive Swap And Lambo Power!

Here’s the fifth video in the series, and the tube work is done! The chassis in this bad boy is now certified to 6.0 which means it is going to be legal to haul ass! In the last episode some of the...

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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Cacklefest Photos! More Header Flaming Fun From The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Cacklefest

There is an implicit thing that is needed for someone to run a nitro powered engine whether it is in a cackle car, a nostalgia dragster, or a full blown modern top fuel car. That thing is trust,...

2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Old Time Drag Racing At And Old Time Location

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – With a flag starter and a 330′ length course run on the landing strip at the small Sterling Airport in Sterling, Massachusetts the Orange Drag Strip Reunion...

NCM Motorsports Park Battling Noise Complaints – Racing Will Continue Unabated As Track Looks For Solutions

Bad news out of Bowling Green as the Bowling Green Daily News is reporting that the NCM Motorsports Park racetrack has received a notice from the City-County Planning Commission that is effectively...

VP Racing Fuels Expands Retail Operations Into New England With Sandri Partnership

Across the country VP Racing fuels stations are springing up as the company continues on a bold retail campaign that is putting their brand and their products in front of more people than they have...

Endless Dream 1970 ISCA Show Car Is For Sale – As Radical As They Come, Former ISCA Champion – Crazy Piece

We seems to be on a kick with the former ISCA show car stars around here lately, eh? From the recently uncovered Corvette we showed you a week or so ago to this mind bending creation, the wild show...

2015 LA Roadsters Show: Another Grab Bag Of Automotive Coolness

Before we return back to roadsters in our 2015 LA Roadsters Show coverage, we wanted to run one more eclectic collection of generally neat stuff that we found at the show. If you are just joining us,...

Mass. Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise Night – More Photos From The Huge Gearhead Meet

The skies may have been on the gray side but that did not deter thousands of gearheads from across New England from gathering at the Bass Pro Shops location in Foxboro, Massachusetts for the...

This Pro Street/Strip 1976 Chevy Vega Has Great Looks And A Conservative Engine Combo

This little 1976 Vega is 100% street legal (in Minnesota) has a very mild little 350 under the hood (that needs to be fixed), and seems like it would be a spartan but fun little hunk of iron to beat...

Nut Driver: The Long Journey Home (Part 3) | Quality Time With The “Other” Monte

[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo] To catch up on the other installments, click HERE One of my goals for this year was to attend a full season of SCCA...

Warhead: Watch The Test Mule Engine For Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds 2.0 Make 3,625hp On Morris Racing Engines Dyno

If there is one thing that I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed first hand it has been the escalation of competition, technology, horsepower, and insanity in the world of street legal drag...

Tennessee’s I-40 Dragway SOLD!!!! Another Drag Strip Saved!

We have it on very good authority that papers were signed today for the sale of I-40 Dragway in Tennessee! That’s great news for racers as the track recently came up for sale and it’s...

Holley NHRA Reunion Cacklefest Photos – Loading In The Iron And Header Flame Spewing Fun!

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Having attended more than our fair share of Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunions at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky we can tell you with some...

Good News, Canadians! The Mercedes Benz Unimog Is Coming Back! (Sorry, Lohnes, Not In The U.S.A. Yet)

One of the most capable workhorse vehicles ever designed is slated to make a return to the Great White North’s market soon, and workers across Canada are celebrating. The Mercedes Benz Unimog...

The Next Generation of TCI® 6x Six-Speed™ Transmissions Has Arrived – More Durable, More Smoothness

The TCI 6x six speed automatic was an amazing piece when introduced a short while back and since we know that company does not rest for a minute on their laurels, it only makes sense that they have...