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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: LIVE Testing 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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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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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 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: 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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First Look Video: Dan Stevenson Begins Testing New Turbo Pro Mod Camaro

After suffering one of the most heinous fires in the history of the pro modified class, the world was wondering what Dan Stevenson planned to do. Was he done with the sport? Would be rebuild the...

PDRA Spring Nationals Coverage: More Awesome ‘Slammer Action From The Rock

(Photos by David Whealon/DWphotos.net) – Yes, we were fortunate enough to have two fantastic shooters on the grounds of Rockingham Dragway during the 2016 PDRA Spring Nationals a couple of...

Lonestar Round Up 2016 Coverage: The Massive Texas Show Is Full Of Surprises

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While it is true that the Lonestar Round Up 2016 is over and done with, our coverage is not! Charles Wickam did a killer job of escaping work and getting his...

The Nürburgring claims another Mercedes GT3 car, tosses it on its lid

The racing season is in full swing in Germany’s Rhineland, which means that every other weekend, pretty much, finds GT3-spec race cars ripping around the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife. The...

British Clio Cup racers struggle to keep the shiny side down at Donington

In Europe, the Renault Clio Cup is a popular touring car “ladder” series, offering a venue both for older drivers looking for seat time against stiff competition and giving young drivers a place...

Viva Las Vegas 2016: The Cool Cars and Killer Hot Rods Just Keep Coming!

So our wall to wall coverage of anything with a motor in Las Vegas last weekend continues with these images from Viva Las Vegas 2016. Because we have covered so many of these things at this point we...

The San Francisco Fire Department Still Uses Wooden Ladders Exclusively They Build Them As Well – This Great Video Tells The Tale

This is the kind of stuff we live for around here. The four minute video below talks about something that we never knew existed before we saw it and that is the fact that the San Francisco Fire...

VICTORY (Almost): EPA Drops Proposed Industry-Killing Language In Clean Air Act – Let’s Keep Fighting For The RPM Act!

We have reason to celebrate this Sunday morning because it has been announced that the EPA has stricken the ill-advised, poorly worded, and altogether draconian language that they had proposed to add...

Viva Las Vegas 2016 Coverage: The Coolest Hot Rod Show In The West Was Cranking!

It was, huge, it was fun, it was windy, and it was Viva Las Vegas 2016. Yes, as Chad was hunkered down, swinging the camera over at the Vegas drag strip, we had operatives blasting photos at the Viva...

Headbanging And Carnage: Check Out “The Sound And Fury”, The Behind-The-Scenes Look At RJ Anderson’s XP1K3 Video!

RJ Anderson is an off-roading badass. We saw him romp at Red Bull Frozen Rush in a full-size truck, but his specialty is making Polaris RZRs do things that the company never, ever saw...

Craigslist Find: The Official Vehicle Of Operation “Screw This, I’m Going Camping” – This 1989 M925A2 Rules!

Getting away from it all just sounds so nice sometimes, doesn’t it? Driving around, seeing everything there is to see in this great big world while staying away from most humans…yes,...

The Sneaky Pete Mud Truck Is As Insane As It Is Short Wheelbased – This Video Shows It Dominating Pits In-Cab And Out

The guy who was genius enough to plug a classic Peterbilt cab on top of a truck chassis, jam about 1,000hp into it and then dominate mud pits with said creation deserves some sort of award. People...

This Gorgeous 1961 Chevrolet Impala Four Door Has Just Enough New Touches To Be Daily-Driveable Without Taking Away The Character Of The Car!

If there is one downside to the Pro Touring movement, it’s that a lot of the builds we see tend to lose the character of the car for the sake of performance. Sure, you are still looking at a...

Watch A Circle Track Spectator Drags Racer Run Out Of Talent And Roll His “Race” Truck!

We’ve showed you many videos over the years featuring people wrecking  their cars during “spectator drags” races at local circle tracks. The premise of the spectator drags is...

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