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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Caption This Photo: Larry Larson Gets Up Close And Personal With Our New Drag Week Ride.

This went down while moving our new S10 Drag Week project from the paint shop down the street, over to Larson Race Cars to start assembly. It was a moment that I couldn’t resist shooting a...

QuickTrick Has An EXCLUSIVE Offer Just For BangShift – Inventory Clearance Blowout – Save Big Here!

When we got the word from Tess and the gang at QuickTrick that they were having a blow out, inventory clearing sale on their QuickSlide systems exclusive to BangShift we jumped on the horn here to...

Gauntlet Thrown: This 1938 Ford Bus Destroys Anything That McTaggart Suggested For A BS Mobile Command

  The other day McTaggart thought he’s be cute and take pot shots at my suggestion that we use a beat up 1960 Lloyd van as the new BS mobile command center. He then made some generalized...

Drag Action Gallery: Wheels Up, Tire Smoking Fun At the Sunday Niagra Nostalgia Drags and Reunion In New York

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Yesterday we showed you some great photos from the Sunday Niagra nostalgia drags and car show held at what was formerly known as Lancaster Speedway in New York. The...

Question Of The Day: The National Corvette Museum Is Opening Up Their New Racetrack Tomorrow And Is Holding A Three-Day Party: What Do You Want To See?

You can’t live in Bowling Green, Kentucky and not know what is going on with Corvettes. From the evil car-eating sinkhole to a certain silver ’75 that was abandoned behind Holley’s...

Someone Actually Built A Hot Rod Manure Spreader – Fling Cow Dung As You Have Never Flung Before

When Tammy Thomas sent us a link to look at a 1949 Oliver manure spreader hot rod, we were a little leery to click it. Something like that sounded like a total spam situation and we didn’t want...

Ferrari Sends Cease-And-Desist Letters To Deadmau5 Over His “Purrari”

Ferrari as a company acts like owning their car is a gift given to you by the Mafia. If the model is particularly rare (or is intended to be rare) you have to be invited personally by the company for...

Video: The Ultimate Vintage Drag Film, Ingenuity in Action at the 1959 NHRA Nationals

Here’s a film that’s been around a while! This greatness was lost to the public eye for many years, but in today’s times it has been passed around the Internet. This most recent...

Racing Carnage: R32 Golf Tries To Drive Through a Honda S2000 At Nurburgring

Utilization of  the Nurburgring Nordschliefe, Rule 3: Vehicles must drive on the right, in particular when overtaken, on crests, in bends or in case of breakdown. Regulations of Vehicle Speed on...

Avert Your Eyes: Someone Made A 1995 Buick Roadmaster “Superbird”

There are things that cannot be believed and there are things than cannot be unseen. This car is both of those things. We’ve shown you strange creations in all shapes and sizes from places...

Movie Car Chase Video: A Gran Fury vs. A Grand Ville in “Short Time”

Dabney Coleman plays Burt Simpson, a Seattle detective, learns that he has a disease that will kill him within two weeks, and that the only way his family receives any benefits is if he dies within...

Unhinged: Someone Put The Kia Hamsters Back In The Cage, Please.

Before I get into the meat and potatoes of this train of thought, I will say that a Kia was the first thing I ever owned. That was in 1988, and it was a red bicycle…and I was five. The first...

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What Do You Get When You Cross Australian Touring Car and Drifting? Awesome. You Get Awesome.

We love V8 Supercars here at BangShift. Real cars (ok, more real than NASCAR) hauling serious amounts of speed around killer road courses in a land that seems to always be ready for a track...

Is It True: Has GM Finally Green-Lit A Mid-Engined Corvette?

Right as I’m about to hit the sack to rest up for tomorrow’s big opening day celebration of the track at the National Corvette Museum, my phone goes absolutely ballistic. Several friends...