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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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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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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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Rough Start: This Built 1985 Ford Thunderbird Just Might Be The Best Find Yet

The entire point of the Rough Start series was to find the best balance between a maximum budget of $5,000 total for a vehicle and the desirable reasons for owning said vehicle. We’ve seen...

HUGE NEWS: BangShift To Provide LIVE Streaming Coverage Of 10th Annual NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl!

From July 30th through August 2nd BangShift.com will provide live streaming video coverage of the 10th annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. This is a race that combines the...

All In The Family: If You Think The 15-year-old Can Drift, You Ought To See The 11-Year-Old!

Would you cut your child loose with a powerful race car? Here in the states, that might be a cause for panic, especially from the “Think of the children!” groups, but in Ireland there is...

Fred Williams Gets To Take A Brand-New Toyota Tundra TRD Pro On An Off-Roading Road Trip Vacation That Anyone Can Do!

Ok, so you might not get the keys to a $44,000 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro to tool around in, and yes, this episode of Dirt Every Day is mostly a Toyota advertisement. Fine, but if it is going to be an...

Watch This NASCAR Small Block Get Pulled Six Times In A Row To 9,700 RPM As A Race Simulation

We show you high RPM dyno pulls with frequency around here because they are awesome. Who does not love the sound of an engine turning in the upper reaches of the four digit zone and into the five...

Ride Along As RM Sotheby’s Gets A Rare Opportunity To Drive A Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight In The Hills Of Oregon

It is a rare piece, that’s for sure…only three of them were made as a response to Mercedes-Benz’s 300SL entries at LeMans. It packed 220hp in 1953, a fairly substantial figure, but...

This 1968 Cadillac El Dorado El Camino Is Very Interesting And Cool – Would You Cruise It?

You can count this as a new one on us! The eBay ad promoting the sale of this unique 1968 Cadillac El Dorado-Camino gives no details as to the origins, construction, or inspiration for this evil...

Battle Of The Titans! The 800HP AWD Cutlass Meets An 800HP Jeep SRT-8

Brian King’s AWD Hurst/Olds is a beast. Running an 800hp 6.6L ProCharged LS engine and all-wheel-drive, the G-body Cutlass is capable of not only handling itself at a race, but handing plenty...

Hilarious Video: Watch A Pickup Strung With About One Million Firecrackers Put On The Performance Of A Lifetime

BangShifter Jack Pereira tipped us off to this video that may actually be beyond description but we’re going to give it a try here. At first we thought we were watching a well used Chevy pick up...

Another 8×8 Extreme RV That Will Make You Want To Circle The Globe

When we found an 8×8 Motorhome last week on Craigslist and showed it to all of you the response was awesome. Well boys and girls, here is one at another level again! Action Mobil builds these...

Watch The Footage Of A Small Plane Landing On A Carlsbad, California Beach On The 4th Of July – No One Died!

While I was off announcing a drag race n Ohio and Chad was at home wrenching, lots of people in  Carlsbad, California decided to hit the beach for Independence Day. That seemed like a fine plan...

Electrical Box: We (Attempt to) Make An Electric Car Our Primary Wheels For A Week – The Future?

So sometimes you get the chance to do something in the name of science and you just have to do it. Having never driven a true electric car (only hybrids) more than around the block, I was...

Rough Start: This 1971 Dodge D100 Is In Need Of A New Home

There’s just something about an old pickup that’s awesome. Every nick scratch in the paint tells a story of what the truck has seen over the years, from rock chips to the one time the...

How Are People Allowed To Be This Close To A Rally Stage? This Video Shows Just How Insanely Close Rally Spectators Really Are

It is sincerely amazing that we don’t hear about rally racing spectators getting mowed down every week, considering how close spectators tend to get to the cars, especially in locations around...