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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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Win Cash From Champion Spark Plugs By Sending In A Photo Of Your Car: This Is Super Simple!

So simple even a BangShifter can do it is what they must have been thinking. And the great thing is all of you guys are out driving your cars right now, or have great photos of it from Power Tour and...

Video: Indoor Donuts Around A Pole In A Shelby Cobra. Seriously, We Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up!

While looking up another funny video that we will show later this week, we stumbled across this one. It’s title is Best Burnout Ever! Indoors!. Well, there isn’t much smoke, but we...

Cool Parts: Trans-Dapt Introduces “Swap In A Box” Kit For V8 S-10 Swaps – Everything You Need In One Place!

There’s currently one massive problem with V8 S-10 trucks. That problem? Neither Chad or I own one! Since taking a ride in a friend’s sleeper V8 S10 in college, I have been hooked on the...

Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models

(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) –  I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit,...

Ebay Find: A 1963 Lyn Air PB2500. What We Would Do To Build Into BangShift’s Mobile Command Center

Let’s face it, sometimes we march to the beat of a different drummer around here. After all, Brian is building a mid ’80s Caprice, I’m infatuated with old motorhomes, and we somehow...

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Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Last time we visited Dennis Spal at his High Speed Welding shop in Westmont, Illinois he was finishing up the mechanical restoration of Grumpy’s Toy X....

Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift was in full force at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion this past weekend, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With Brian on the microphone, Chad...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When You Think Roadster, Which One Of These Pops Into Your Head?

When you ask most guys what their dream Roadster would be, they tend to rattle off some early to mid 30’s Ford that does or does not have fenders, hood, Flatty, steelies, etc. It seems that...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Classical Gas – Mason Williams (1968)

Chad’s been dominating the Daily Tune Up spot for a while so I thought it was my BS civic duty to wrestle control away from him for a day and class the joint up a little. I picked the 1968...

Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!

Any Taub was competing at Atco Dragway recently in her rear engine sportsman dragster. From the looks of the dial in board, this is a very low 7-second dragster, so we can safely assume that the car...

Monday Moment Of Photo Zen: A Gathering Of Bitchin’ Gassers At The 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

(Photo by Charles Wickam) – If you’re thinking that you missed out on something by not attending the 2013 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green,...

Spy Photo: Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Has Some New T-56 and 4L80e Crossmembers For ’67 to ’76 GM F-Body

The guys at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks have been hammering out more and more new F-Body parts in their new No Fab lineup, and here is a spy photo of the newest addition in prototype form....

Dyno Test: A 2013 Mustang Barbie Edition Power Wheels Gets Strapped To The Rollers!

Hot rodders are all a little on the screwy side and when you combine that with our seemingly limitless level of need to know how powerful, fast, and otherwise performance oriented stuff is, this...

Would You Drive It? A Chevy Van That We Give A Resounding “YES YES YES!”

You never know what you are going to find at Beech Bend Raceway when it’s time for the National Hot Rod Reunion. Everything from hot rods, customs, trick golf carts, drag cars, and more are all...