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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 Qualifier—TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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This Might Be The Most Insane JDM Wheel Collection Ever, And Larry Chen Found It By Accident. Check It Out!

I own just two vehicles that are not Chevrolets, and those two are both Japanese imports. They are my 1985 Mitsubishi Mighty Max and my 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback. And while my plan is to build the...

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How To Make New Wheels Look Like Old Steelies, With A Twist! A New Way Of Doing Things!

For several years there have been people using custom bolt on adapters to mount dog dish hubcaps onto Weld Draglite wheels, and while it sounds weird, it really does work. The dog dish caps cover the...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 1 and 2 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat....

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The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

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RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

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Aerospace Components Dual Rear Brake Systems Delivery More Stopping Power, Control, and Holding Ability

(Words and photos by Mike Galimi) – Some things just go well in double servings like two scoops of ice cream instead one or a Double-Double for those who enjoy In-N-Out Burger. But when it...

Ebay Find: Is This 4-Valve Head One Of The Sold-Off Chrysler “A-925 Project” DOHC Hemi Heads?

When Chrysler took first, second and third at the 1964 Daytona 500, two things happened: it immediately put Bill France on high alert, and it gave the competition…namely, Ford, since GM...

Mammoth Orange County Choppers HQ Building To Be Auctioned – Bike Shop, Cafe, Bowling Alley, More

Seven years after it was built, the mammoth world head quarters for Orange County Choppers will be auctioned off in February. Located in Newburgh, New York the building was commissioned by and built...

Every Photo We’ve Posted So Far From The Grand National Roadster Show 2016 Is Right Here

Hot Rodding is on! It’s Grand National Roadster Show 2016 time, which means America’s Most Beautiful Roadster contenders and a ton of other bitchin hot rods. We made the rounds during...

BangShift Speed Records: In My Merry Oldsmobile – One Of The First Car Tunes Ever

(By Eric Rood) – The hot rodding world is familiar with car-related pop songs and even with Oldsmobile-themed songs like “Rocket 88,” but it may be news that one of the first popular...

Gearhead History Lesson: What’s a Q-Ship?

  We run lots of blog items about sleepers here on BangShift and on occasion, I refer to them as “Q-Ships”. As people find these stories on their own thorugh web searches or they run...

Kevin Tetz Shows You How To Replace The Wood In Your Pickup Truck Bed At Home

How many times have you seen a bitchin patina’d pickup that has a completely rotted out wood bed in it, or a finished pretty truck that has wood that is present, but not pretty at all? It...

This 1971 Hemi Cuda Project Is Only $35,000 Which Sounds Like A Screamin’ Deal

First off, this is not an original Hemi Cuda, but it is a pretty bad ass ride that comes with all kinds of coolness. The Hemi it comes with is a Mopar Performance based Hemi that measures 478 cubic...

Get An Ant’s Eye View Of What It Is Like To Be Run Over By A Junior Fuel Dragster

This is one of those videos that simply couldn’t exist before the days of “action sports cameras” like the Replay xD, GoPro, and all of the others on the market today. Back in the...

There’s More Than Just Burnout Contests! Watch As This Holden Caprice Competes In “Driving Events”!

There’s a reason that I’m so enamored with Australian motorsports, even at the grassroots levels: these guys don’t baby their cars! We’ve seen their drag racing, which is...

Wanna Beat The Snow Once And For All? Then Look At This Chevrolet Blazer…uh, Plymouth Acclaim?

The midwest is finally past that cute little snowstorm that struck last week. Most of the snow and ice has melted away and what’s left isn’t anything to worry about. That couldn’t...

Good News! The DeLorean DMC-12 Is Going Back Into Production! All-New 1982 Stainless Steel Wonders For Sale!

I wish I could see the look on Brian Lohnes’ face when he gets to see this news, I really do. The DeLorean DMC-12, the car immortalized in the Macklemore music video for “Thrift...

Craigslist Find: This Beautiful Cadillac Seville Is Packing A Huge Surprise Under The Hood…And It Isn’t A GM Piece.

Some people aren’t bothered by cross-breed engine swaps. Others take a strong personal offense to seeing a Hemi in a Ford, or a Chevy engine jammed into any and everything possible. The GM...

Dodge’s New “Pick-Up” TV Spot Featuring Hellcats Is An Excellent Take On An Old Joke – Fathers, Lock Up Your Daughters!

I have a childhood friend my age who has a daughter. She’s not yet two, but it’s painfully obvious that in about fifteen years, that he will be in utter hell…she will be the reason...