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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sunday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Sleeperdude and Family Take An Off Road Christmas Tree Journey in an 80 Year Old Jeep That Doesn’t Drive Yet

When I think back to my earliest Christmas memories, one of the things I do remember was going to Christmas Tree farms to choose and cut our own tree. It was fun, and made getting a tree, bringing it...

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240z Suspension & Brake Upgrades, Plus Cool Tractor Pulling Innovations On Stacey David’s Gearz

Stacey is back at it in this episode of Gearz, working on his 240Z project which is getting some suspension and brake upgrades to keep this project moving. These cars have a ton of high performance...

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350 Mile ROAD TRIP in the 1957 Chevy Belair – Derek Traded SIGHT UNSEEN After He Finished The Rebuild!

Here we go again with another one of Derek’s Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras. This time he’s taking the Texas 1957 Chevrolet on a road trip for a trade. He has no clue how good the...

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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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Must Be Hard Work: Watch Two Remote-Control Bobcats Fill In The National Corvette Museum’s Sinkhole!

Work is progressing on that little car-eating hole in the center of the Skydome’s floor at the National Corvette Museum. Scott, Murphy and Daniel, LLC., the construction group that is...

Tractor Gallery: 2015 Western Kentucky University’s Antique Tractor Show

If there is one thing that BangShift Mid-West has in spades, it’s access to agricultural equipment on a scale that would leave Lohnes drooling. And since it’s a new year, why not lead on...

Watch This Wild, Turbocharged, Monster Quad Lay Down More Than 300hp To The Tires On The Dyno!

When we got sent this video we had no idea what the heck we were looking at and frankly we’re still not sure. This looks like an overgrown ATV and it makes more power at the tire than our...

Blog War: This 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Custom Cruiser Wagon Is Beyond Reproach (And Better Than Anything McTaggart Will Find)

You’ll have to excuse the fact that I took a couple days off of what has turned into a Soviet/US Cold War style situation here at BangShift regarding station wagons and how wrong Bryan...

Holley Releases Plug and Play EFI Harnesses For Gen III Chrysler Hemi Engines – Time To Get Your HP or Dominator On!

A happy Sunday just got happier for late model Chrysler performance fans. Why? Holley has announced the release of plug and play EFI harnesses for Gen III Chrysler Hemi engines so now you too can get...

BangShift Project Files: A 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon That Is As Good As Gold

“Shelty” is the owner of this 1966 Bel Air six-passenger wagon, a second car that he has been playing with for a little bit. It’s not a $5000 Challenge car, but with a goal of being...

Dyno Carnage Video: A Diesel Explodes Its Guts During a Dyno Pull

Sweet mother of mechanical mercy, this is the craziest engine dynoing failure we’ve ever seen. It’s gnarly enough that parts of the bottom end, perhaps a chunk of the crank even, crash...

This Video Of A Massive Michigan Highway Pileup In Progress Is Terrifying And The Most Vivid Winter Driving Lesson Ever

We’ve all seen the news stories about huge traffic accidents that gather up dozens and dozens of cars at a whack. The other day in Michigan there was a catastrophe that involved some 150...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Buick Goes Topless, Viper Goes Custom, And Corvette Goes DIY

New year, same old ingredients: take press releases hyping new products we could care less about, cars that don’t come close to our radar, and some of the worst quotes and diatribe from the...

100% BangShift Approved Video: Watch A Guy Operate The Throttle Of A Rally Car While Sitting Under The Hood – How Does The Driver See?

There are lots of ways to gauge the dedication of racers. You can look at how many hours they spend slaving in the shop. You can pay attention to how little sleep they guy because of their addiction...

Shoulda Made That Left Turn At Iquique: Two Dakar Rally Racers Arrested After Riding Over Archeological Site

The Dakar Rally, regardless of where it is held, is long, difficult, and brutal to both man and machine. Equipment gets torn up and crashes can happen with alarming regularity, but to have your...

Watch a Wild International Scout Gasser Pull Huge Wheelies on the Strip

We got a tip from Canadian Dave Pelissier to check out a couple of videos featuring International Scouts made into drag race cars. As it turns out, Dave has the coolest one of the bunch so...

GREAT NEWS: Maine’s Oxford Plains Dragway Will Be Open For Business In 2015!

We’re happy to report that Oxford Plains Dragway in Maine will be open for business in 2015. This announcement comes less than a year after depressing news that the track would be closed with...

Big News: Top Sportsman and Top Dragster To Compete For NHRA National Championships In 2015

In some of the best news to come down the sportsman drag racing pipe in some time, the National Hot Rod Association has announced that Top Sportsman and Top Dragster competitors will finally have a...