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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Are These The Weirdest Monster Trucks Ever Produced: Taking A Look At Monster Jam Trucks, Big Foot Trucks, And More!

I’m old enough to remember when Monster Trucks just ran over parked cars, and didn’t fly through the air. Hell, back then nobody would have ever imagined they would be doing backflips and...

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The Best Rolex 24 at Daytona Finishes of All Time! IMSA Shares Their Favorite Finishes Of All Time!

IMSA’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is coming up in just over a week, with the Roar Before the 24 coming this weekend. If you aren’t familiar with everything that goes on during the month of...

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Larry Chen’s 240Z Final Gets Much Needed Suspension and Interior Upgrades, Plus Other Cool Stuff!

Larry Chen has some fun rides, but his 240z is “the one”. What I mean by that is that this is his forever car, the one that will never get sold and sent on its way to a new home. Larry...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera 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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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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Ronnie The King Davis Passes Following Horrific Rockingham Crash, Journalist Ian Tocher Injured In Wreck

(Photo credit: David Whealon) – Following a massive crash at Rockingham Dragway, racer Ronnie The King Davis has passed away from injuries sustained in the wreck. The crash happened on...

Tech Video: Here’s How To Properly Dial Indicate Your Bell Housing – Do It Once, Do It Right, Keep Your Manual Trans Happy!

If you are getting ready to install a manual transmission in your car or truck, you need to watch this video and follow the procedure outlined in it which will keep your trans happy and operating...

Restore This REO Bottlewagon And Take It On The Run, Baby

Casual music and automotive fans will likely both know of the REO Speed Wagon (and/or Speedwagon if you want to be pedantic about spelling), but few will know about the existence of the REO...

Funny Stuff: Taking Up Donations For A Worthy Cause, Done Right…Or, Don’t Date Crazy!

(Photo: Cody Adams, via V.I.S.I.T) Breakups are the worst, aren’t they? What started out as this amazing thing that two people shared, what brought them close together, has now become a vortex...

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A Hemi Powered Opel Kadett? Old School Race Car Awesome That Could Be Brought Back

I’m a fan of Opels. But in recent years the Opel Kadett in particular has been the one pulling on my heartstrings. So you can imagine how excited I was when I say this Opel Kadett with a Hemi...

eBay Find: This 1972 Mercury Comet GT Would Make An Awesome Cruiser! If You Want A Mustang Alternative, Here It Is!

A 302 and a five-speed in any Ford product outside of an F-600 is a recipe for fun, but when you put it into a Mercury Comet (the Ford Maverick’s fraternal twin), the fun is at it’s...

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Imagine What Mid Engine Fun You Could Build With This! Powerglide/Winters Quick Change Transaxle

You hear about it all the time. The guy who starts a project just because of a set of wheels he found, or a blower and injector hat, or an engine. It all starts with one thing. Well this is an...

This 1967 GMC Commercial For The New C10 Is Awesome

There are so many cool old car and truck commercials out there, and every time we see a new one we get all excited. So when Scott Liggett sent in the link to this 1967 GMC Commercial the other day I...

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Grab Some Popcorn And Watch Carfection Rate Their Eight Best Car Advertisements From The U.K.!

Good car advertisements are a rare thing nowadays, but that wasn’t always the case. It used to be that strangeness, a little self-deprecating humor, a good soundtrack or a killer mustache would...

Street Outlaws Kamikaze Goes Full Tube Backhalf On The El Camino For 2016

Kyle and the boys at 1320 Video got a sneak peek at Street Outlaw’s Kamikaze’s El Camino the other day and shared the video with the world. Never before had anyone publicly seen this...

Engine Teardown: Watch As This Porsche 930 Turbo Flat-Six Gets Taken Down To The Bare Block!

Spring is a little late to be tearing into a project engine, but better late than never. The sooner the engine is torn down, the sooner it can be built back up to be even better than it was before....

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ChallengerFest 7 Gallery: Take A Tour Of The Parking Lot Festivities During Friday’s Car Show!

What was supposed to be an awesome day of Modern Street Hemi Shootout racing on Friday turned into Mother Nature’s temper tantrum. Shortly after qualification runs started, the clouds rolled...

Morning Symphony: The Machine-Gun Blast Of A Skoda Fabia WRC Will Get You Moving In A Hurry!

Nothing will grab your attention faster than a strong anti-lag system getting strung up under boost. Nothing. Take it from a combat veteran…hearing a machine-gun POP-POP-POP! will scare the...

Watch The LIVE Replay Of The NMCA/NMRA All-Star Nationals 2016 Right HERE!

Starting this Friday, BangShift.com will be bringing you live streaming action of the 2016 8th annual Borla Exhaust NMCA/NMRA All-Star Nationals from Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia. This is one...