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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Spring Fling Galot $50,000 Friday Is LIVE Right Here!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country, then you need to watch the...

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Our Mud And Dirt Racing Photos Continue: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Full Of Great Mud Slinging Action!

(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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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Build DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

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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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WRONG!!! An Army Themed “Rat Rod” We Just Can’t Wrap Our Arms Or Heads Around

Now before anyone gets all Toby Keith, and starts calling us the Dixie Chicks, let me officially proclaim that BangShift.com and it’s owners fully support our troops. With that said, the dude...

Flaming Dyno Explosion Video: Big Revs and Bigger Wreckage

This is a good old fashioned dyno disaster. According to the poster of the video, the cause of the failure was a wrist pin that left it’s duty post at the worst time possible, during peak RPM...

Big Time Wreckage Video: A Crash Compilation From the 1920s to the 1950s

This video will have you cringing and wincing all the way through. It is an amazing collection of racing crashes from the earliest days of motorized competition through the 1950s. For many years,...

PowerShift LIVE Tonight: 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern, Helicopters, Jamming Gears, And More.

Tonight’s PowerShift is going to be a good one. Normally we do them on Friday but this one got delayed due to the holiday. Tonight’s show will likely make you laugh, teach you a few...

Awesome Video: Leeroy Yarbrough is Saved From Burning to Death at Daytona in 1964

Leeroy Yarbrough was one of NASCAR’s brightest stars in the latter 1960s. In 1969, the best year of his career he dominated the sport, winning seven races, among them the Daytona 500, Coke 600,...

Video: The Cars Of The 2013 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. Sound Is Awesome!

This is not the most exciting video we have ever run on the site, but it pretty cool to watch and listen to. In these two videos you will see every car that drove in the gate at the DuQuoin...

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Savings: 4th Of July Deals For BangShifters From Hedman And American Powertrain!

As usual, BangShift sponsors are taking care of all you BangShifters and that means savings from both Hedman and American Powertrain this weekend. We’re talking FREE shipping, 10% off, schwag...

eBay Find: A 2002 Oshkosh M1070 Tank Hauler That Swats Chad’s Motorhome With Its Detroit Diesel Pimp Hand – This Thing Hauls 70-tons

Ya know, Chad was pretty nice about my fixation with trucks, tractors, and other implements of slow plodding coolness, but that’s not normal. Nope, behind the scenes he angrily berates me and...

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Ebay Find: The Sexiest Hot Rod Motorhome We’ve Ever Seen. 1949 Flxible Clipper “Starliner”

While Brian is head over heals with big rigs and tow trucks, which I think are super cool, the thing that gets me almost as hot as muscle and race cars is vintage motorhomes, rvs, campers, trailers,...

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Photos: Coverage From Tulsa Raceway Park’s Mickey Thompson Shootout Series

(Photos Brad Klaasen) This past weekend’s Mickey Thompson Shootout Series at Tulsa Raceway Park was huge, and yet it was only a third of the racing going on! Yep, it was a triple header weekend...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Did You Do Anything Car Related For 4th Of July?

With the 4th falling on a Thursday, it means that a lot of folks are going to end up with a 4 day weekend. That could mean prime time for some car fun. But just because you have all weekend...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Truck’n’Roll Rules” The BossHoss (2007)

This songs rules. It’s part blues, part country, part rock, and more. The video is hilarious and features a party going on in the trailer of a big rig. How can that not be good? The BossHoss, a...

The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries

Guys and girls who race cars tend to have mucho grande egos. It’s the nature of the business. Great racers never exist in a vacuum by themselves, so it’s inevitable that every great one...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most “American” Car Or Truck?

So we’re celebrating America’s birthday on this day, July 4th. It’s a joyous day with fireworks, friends, frosty beverages, burnouts, maybe some racing for those of you hardcore...