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Merry Christmas From BANGshift! We Hope You Enjoy Christmas With Your Loved Ones And That Santa Is Good To All Of You!

Every year the message is pretty similar, and on behalf of the Reynolds family, along with our amazing BangShift.com sponsors, I’d like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry...

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DID SANTA FAIL YOU? DON’T WORRY, THE BACONSHIFT SALE IS ON!!! FREE BACON, Plus $250 Discounts! It’s The BACONSHIFT Sale At American Powertrain And It Ends January 9th!

One of the most exciting times of year is when the BACONSHIFT SALE starts at American Powertrain! With $250 in savings on your favorite 5 and 6-speed kits, there is no doubt this is the perfect...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: This BIG BLOCK Swapped Squarebody ROLLBACK Is Going On A Road Trip! Break In or Break Down?

This rollback has had an interesting life, and after a fire and some other drama, this one has got a new to it engine and transmission. The fire wasn’t on this truck. The fire was on the truck...

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CHRISTMAS TREES GOING 6 SECONDS IN THE 1/4?!?!? MORE CHRISTMAS TREE DRAGS FROM BRADENTON!!!!

Spoold Media was on hand at the Christmas Tree Drags at Bradenton, and we’ve got their video right here. We’ve already shared the video from 1320Video and KSR, but this one is different...

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MOONEYES Christmas Party 2025 Video: Classic Cars, Hot Rods & Models Together Celebrating 75 Years Of Mooneyes!

The Mooneyes Christmas Party is always one of our favorite events of the year, and I really do miss it now that I live in Texas. It was one of those annual shows that we really looked forward to each...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: DETROIT DIESEL Dually Squarebody! Will It Make It 600 Miles Home or Leave Him Stranded?

This thing is cool! Well it looks cool anyway, even though I’m not a big fan of the 6.2 liter diesel under the hood. And before all you 6.2 and 6.5 fans start bitching, know that I grew up with...

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New Car Friday: Ford Finally Releases Focus RS’s Power Figures: 345 Horsepower And 324 Pounds-Feet Of Torque, With More On Demand!

Ever since we saw the video of Ken Block sliding around a preproduction Focus RS, Ford has played coy with the actual power figures of the car. While we applaud Ford for not showing their hand from...

Former ISCA Corvette Unearthed: Baldwin-Motion Nose, Dual Quad Big Block, Wild Interior, Wow

If this car does not personify the 1970s ISCA show scene in one fell swoop we’re not sure what else does. Unearthed after decades of sitting in a garage, the car is in need of a full...

Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion 2015: Show Cars, Drag Cars, And Stuff That Defies Description

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – When it comes to the photos that McTaggart shot at the 2015 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we’ve barely scratched the surface. The guy just about...

LA Roadsters Show 2015 Coverage: Roadsters Of Every Shape, Size, and Style

We have been showing you trucks from the 2015 LA Roadsters show over the last couple of days but today we’re back in roadster mode like we should be. There is no more iconic and used hot...

Will Ownership Of Laguna Seca Change, And Could The France Family Take Over?

Monterey County, California officials have been looking into supplanting the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP)’s operation of the vaunted Laguna Seca race course...

A Somewhat Fond Look Back At The Pontiac Turbo Trans Am – A Lot Of Show, But About The “Go” Part…

I like the Pontiac Trans Am in just about every version possible. Every experience I’ve had with one makes me think of the same thing: lots of torque, a willingness to whip donuts at driver...

SCTA El Mirage June 2015: The Coolest Push, Support, Tow, And Random Vehicles At The Meet

(Words and photos by Steve Murphree) – In my first visit to El Mirage I noticed that the support and spectator vehicles were awesome! I think that because El Mirage is so much closer to SoCal...

Craigslist Find: A 1974 Mazda Rotary Pickup With An Oldsmobile 455 Mounted In The Bed!

Bring A Trailer doesn’t normally run features on freaks of this caliber, and when they do it’s something worth checking out. Other than their obscurity, why would they focus on a 1974...

Julien’s Hollywood Legends Auction Will Offer Up Some Big-Name Cars, From John Schnider’s General Lee Through KITT!

Automobile auctions are still a circus to us, where people with more money than brains drive up the price of cars faster than an annoyed Saudi sheik will drive up the price of a barrel of oil. But...

Evel Knievel Apparently Had An Injected Cadillac Drag Trike And It Is For Sale Right Now

Well count this as a new one on us. There is a guy in Germany selling a mechanically fuel injected Cadillac drag trike that apparently belonged to Evel Knievel before being sold to said guy in...

Holley’s Vintage Series Valve Covers And Air Cleaner Assemblies Are A Great Way To Dress Up Your Small-Block Chevy!

Holley Performance Products used the 2015 Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky as the perfect location to unveil their new Holley Vintage Series engine dress-up kits. Made from die-cast...

LA Roadsters Show 2015: More Of The Coolest Trucks At The Massive Show

We told you that we had shot virtually everything that there was to shoot at the 2015 LA Roadsters show which was held last weekend at the Pomona Fairplex. The historic show has been a staple in the...

Snow Over? Watch This Snowmobile Power Itself Over Backwards (Rider OK)!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – In Wisconsin winter means snowmobiling and there is no better way to open up your sled than to bring it to the biggest drag event around and see what it has. At the...

Super Stockers, Cacklers, Historic Race Cars, And Vintage Drag Car Perfection At Beech Bend – More Photos!

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – There was a little irony in the fact that McTaggart was at the race hanging around the cool Prussian top fuel dragster that Maynard Rupp won lots of races with....