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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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Good News: British Touring Car Racing Is Coming To U.S. Television!

This is happy news for anyone who used to watch Speedvision when it first came on: British Touring Car Championship racing (read: angry Europeans in violent race-prepared road cars) is coming back to...

These Multi-Lane Tow Plows Are The Winter Innovation Every State Needs

This video has kicked around for a couple years but it is something that every person in a cold weather state should see. These tow plows being used by the Missouri DOT (in this film) are brilliant...

Historical Footage: Torture-Testing A Plymouth The Old-Fashioned Way, By Using Stunt Drivers!

Nowadays, vehicles are subjected to torture tests in laboratories that can duplicate some of the most violent conditions that an automobile can possibly expect to endure. They are frozen, cooked,...

This 1976 Pacer Was “Customized in the 1970s” and “Struggles With Highway Speeds” – Saddest Thing Ever

Now before you gets your shorts all in a knot, we are not ripping on all AMC Pacers. We have highlighted far more cool Pacers here than we ever have ripped on horrid ones. With that being said, this...

This Oldsmobile-Powered “Go-Kart” Just Might Be The Most Frightening Piece Of Backyard Engineering Ever

Performance comes via two methods: make more power, or lose more weight. Most of us go for the first option and proceed to build engines that crank power well beyond what the manufacturer expected....

American Powertrain Releases New Aluminum X-Factor Cross Member For 1970-74 Camaros

If you are building an early second generation Camaro and are in the market for a cross member, this is the cross member you need. The American Powertrain X-Factor cross member is built out of...

How To Mess With Late-Model Muscle: The Callaway Twin-Turbo Corvette

As it sits right now, you can go to a dealership, drop about fifty grand and walk out with a set of wheels that will accelerate, corner, and stop with great comfort. All you have to do is pick your...

Upside Down Is The New Right Side Up At The King Of The Hammers 2015 Off Road Race!

Yesterday we gave you our first gallery of photos from the Nitto King of the Hammers 2015 event in the California Desert, and it was awesome! But we have even awesomer stuff today, so get your butts...

Watch Matt Hagan’s Major League Inferno From The 2015 NHRA Winternationals

There are LOTS of safety enhancements and systems built into modern nitro funny cars and they are there because for decades there have been some common enemies of funny car drivers. The most common...

Watch A Naturally Aspirated Reher Morrison 762ci Mountain Motor Make Nearly 1600HP On The Dyno!

Once Chad sees this video, he won’t be able to walk around in public for days. This 762ci monster on the dyno at Reher Morrison racing engines belts out 1595hp and 1235 ft/lbs of torque. They...

The F-Bomb From 2007 To Now – Chasing An Elusive 8-Second Time Slip – Never Before Seen Footage Here

Controversial, reclusive, mind-bendingly fast, and finally back among the living, Freiburger’s F-Bomb Camaro has been many things to may people. It had a role in a Fast and Furious movie, it...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Steps Up Big Again! 2015 PSCA Presenting Sponsor and Presenting Sponsor Of SCSN 11

Here’s some awesome news for fans of door slammer type drag racing on the west coast and that’s the fact that Chris Altson’s Chassisworks has stepped up yet again to be the...

Crash And Burn: Ivo Breukers Slides Back-End-First Into The Wall At Mount Panorama During The Bathurst 12-Hour

The 2015 Bathurst 12-hour race at Mount Panorama proved to be lively, even by the standards that Bathurst is well-known for. The race was very well contested and there was quite a bit more of the...

Rock Crawling, Truck Bashing, And More From King Of The Hammers 2015!

If you have never been to the Nitto King of the Hammers, you are MISSING OUT! But the good thing for you is that we went this past weekend and shot approximately eleventy million photos. We’re...