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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Full Frontal Assault By The Part Guy’s One Mortal Enemy

I have a general rule in my household for all creatures: If I have invited or brought you into my home, you are a welcomed guest. If you have barged your way in, you are as good as dead. I don’t...

This Video Shows How Ford Will Get A 2015 Mustang To The 86th Floor Of The Empire State Building Quickly

A couple weeks ago we told you the story of how Ford loaded a Mustang into an elevator at the Empire State Building in 1965 and displayed it on the 86th floor observatory of the building for a short...

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Show Coverage: The Eric “Crash” Layne Memorial Car Show – A Benefit for the ALS Association

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Part two of Tommy Lee Byrd’s car guy weekend involved a hometown car show in Dayton, Tennessee. The proximity of the event allowed the whole family to...

The 20th Orange Plaza Car Show – More SoCal Coolness – Muscle, Sporty Cars, Hot Rods

We’re back with a second collection of photos from the 20th Orange Plaza car show, which bought our some of the nicest iron in all of California’s famed Orange County into one place to...

This 1956 Powell Pickup Truck Is Insanely Rare And Built Off Of A 1941 Plymouth – Buy It!

We got tipped off to this Craigslist ad by our pal Brady who saw it an immediately forwarded it on to us like a good BangShifter would. See, when people see weird stuff on the internet, we have kind...

VIDEO: It’s the Mods vs. the Rockers in this awesome clip from Great Britain

We’re barely aware of the tension between two rival gangs of hoodlums in Great Britain in 1964, but it made for some awesome footage, and inspired a whole lot of cool music over the years. This...

SoCal Media Challenge At The Frank Hawley Drag Racing School – BS Contributor Takes It All!

NewsStand and Online editors and contributors meet for supremacy on the Fontana quarter-mile. Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne     In early April, a bunch of cocky media-types, both male...

This Turbocharged Small Block Powered Ferrari 250 GTO Goes 8s, Drives To Track, Rules All (Video)

The Ferrari 250 GTO is one of the world’s most famous, beautiful, and expensive cars. Real ones sell for between 20-30 million dollars at auction and at private sales between captains of...

Strip Visit: Cool Cars And Trucks At Mooresville Dragway’s Test And Tune Night With A Bonus Gasser!

Know what a drag racing announcer does the day before he goes to the drag races? He goes to the drag races, ya big dummy! Continuing to share some of my adventure with Eric Yost and the guys, the...

We Found One Of The Original 1980s Racing Big Rigs In North Carolina – It Still Runs!

So I was in North Carolina over the weekend to announce at the NHRA Four Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway. I got to town a day early to hang out with Eric Yost of Drag Week and Big Gun Customs fame....

Celebrate The 10th Anniversary Of The Ford GT With This Awesome Video From CrankAndPiston.com!

April 17th is the Ford Mustang’s 50th birthday, but I’d like to take a few minutes to enjoy the 10th birthday of the pony car’s younger sibling, the Ford GT, courtesy of this video...

ChumpCar World Series Invades Autobahn Motorsports Park In Illinois – Full Story And Photos Here

The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com), blew their way into Joliet, IL, to make their debut at one of the most unique country clubs in the US….Autobahn County Club located...

Craigslist Find: This Is The Most Oddly Modified 1972 Chevy Pickup Truck Ever

Up until Adam Wiskow sent us a link to the 1972 Chevy truck below we thought that it was impossible to screw up modifying a 1967-1972 Chevy truck. Really, we have seen hundreds and hundreds of them...

The 2014 Pigeon Forge Rod Run Was Awesome And We Were There!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It’s the time of year that Tommy Lee Byrd hits it hard, and he pulled a triple-header this weekend in Tennessee. Part one of the triple-header was the...