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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 10 Racing Action! The 2nd Half Of Marathon Stage 2 And The Biggest Dunes YET!

Super soft sand and the biggest dunes of the race, all after spending the night in the middle of the desert in tents and working on their own rides, means Stage 10 is going to be a tough one. Speed...

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What Happens When You Take A Couple Of F1 Drivers And Tell Them They Have To Race 100 Years Of Ford Cars?

If you are used to driving modern Formula 1 cars, and someone throws you into a Model T Ford, you are probably scratching your head and wondering who thought to design things so backwards compared to...

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The LIWA Festival 2026 Hillclimb Was Epic As Always! The Rooster Tails, Stunts, And Carnage Start Right Here!

Well, it’s that time of year where the LIWA Hillclimbs are happening. This is some really fun stuff, where folks come from all over to race up an epic dune in Dubai. Located not far from the Liwa...

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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 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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Seen The Photos Of The 1969 Firebird Crushed By The Fire Truck? They’re Making The Rounds (again)

If you have been on the internet over the last couple days, chances are you have seen one of or all of the photos below. They depict a 1969 Firebird that has been completely destroyed by an out of...

Dyno Video: An Offy Gets Spun to 9,000 RPM — Is the Offy The Greatest American Racing Engine Ever?

The only good that ever came from Peugeot in America was the inspiration for what came to be known as the Offenhauser racing engine. The original layout of the engine was conceived by American...

Watch A Bird Strike Knock The Front Window Out Of A Small Plane On Landing Approach – Pilot Handles It Like Boss

I am not afraid of flying but I am afraid of flying in small planes. Look, I know this is an illogical fear and something that I should just get over and handle but I can’t. I don’t know...

Watching This Lola T298 Spewing Fire As It Laps Monza Is Gearhead Nirvana

Lola is one of those auto manufacturer names that you know, but yet you don’t quite know. Most of that is due to the fact that Lola Cars tended to be overshadowed by the fanfare of the race...

And Now It’s Time For A Junkyard Trip With Your Host, Mr. Regular! Will He Find A New Powertrain For His Falcon?

In case you were unaware, Mr. Regular of Regular Car Reviews bought himself a 1960 Ford Falcon. It’s a nice car, but when he tried to drive the Falcon from Tennessee to…well, wherever in...

This 10-second Suzuki Samurai Is The Fastest Tangerine We’ve Ever Seen

The Suzuki Samurai. It’s just a step above a Polaris RZR, a step below a Geo Tracker, the target of auto safety nazis for it’s penchant to roll over like an obedient dog, and normally not...

Holley And Hooker Headers Have Made Swapping An LS Engine Into A GM A/G Body Easier With These New Parts!

GM’s 1978-82 A-body and 1978-1988 G-body rear-drivers were popular for having a balanced package in a rear-drive, full frame car, but like most 1980s products, they can benefit from more...

This 1934 International Is Big-Blocked, Bright Yellow And…Well, Look For Yourself…

The question was innocent enough at first glance. As I sat at the computer working, BangShift contributor Scott Liggett shoots me a message: “You like 1934 International trucks?” While...

Go For A Ride Around Grattan Raceway In The New Ford Shelby GT350 – Forget Fast, Forget Handling…THAT NOISE!

Taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. The five senses can tell you everything you need to know, and car geeks can tune in well to what works and what doesn’t. We know the crisp smell of the...

This 1970 Chevelle SS Shorty Looks Like A Riot…If You Can Fit Inside Of It!

Take a stroked 427 breathing through dual quads on a tunnel ram, hook it to an automatic trans, and jam it into a 1970 Chevelle that has had 27 inches whacked out of the wheelbase and a Pro...

FAST Jack Beckman Runs 3.90 At 325.69! Quickest And Fastest Funny Car Run In History!

Jack Beckman is hauling ass! With multiple records in the past couple events, everyone expects Jack Beckman to be a force to be reckoned with, but will this be yet another record-breaking weekend! In...

Watch FREE Live Streaming Video From The IHRA AND PDRA Right Here RIght Now!

That’s right, we’ve got live streaming video LIVE right here at BangShift.com from not one but TWO races this weekend thanks to Mark and the gang at Motormania TV. Click the giant link...

Listen To This NASCAR V8 Get Dyno Pulled To 9,700 RPM Three Times In Under A Minute – Sweet Music!

It is always fun when a bunch of new dyno videos jump onto the internet and for this current blast we have to thank the people at DEPAC Dyno Systems. That company makes instrumentation and software...

This 1978 Dodge Aspen Street Kit Car Is Clean, Bare Bones, And As Nasty As It Got In The Late 1970s

Think what you will of Chrysler Corporation’s decent towards insolvency in the late 1970s, but somewhere in Highland Park existed at least a few people who remembered what made them great just...