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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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BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Pedal To The Metal” Kazzer (2002) We Suck For Not Doing This One Sooner

With a Weiand 6-71 Blower being the very first image you see in Kazzer’s video for “Pedal to the Metal”, we totally should have run this already as a BangShift Daily Tune Up. The...

2013 LA Roadster Show – We Were There And The Cars Ruled!

The LA Roadster Show is going on this weekend and we’re there….and we’re also in Bowling Green at the NHRA Holley National Hot Rod Reunion. How? Because we freaking rule....

LIVE: X-DRL Extreme Gateway Showdown

Watch LIVE VIDEO here on Bang Shift!! – The X-DRL will be showcased in a live, high-quality stream that will capture every qualifying run and elimination matchup, and all of it will be free and...

Must Wear Summer Apparel From American Powertrain: The New Six Speed Six Pack Shirt Only $15!

We love car shirts, which is why our wives hate them so much. But what do they know about fashion? Clearly nothing, because nothing looks better spread across our gut than a cool automotive design....

eBay Find: Five Complete GMC V12 Engines – 702ci A Piece! Rare and Huge

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know that these things are basically two V6 engines hitched together (in a common block) and that they are lazy and aren’t really all that hot rod-able. Used in firetrucks,...

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New Product Preview: Westside Performance’s ModuSaver – A Speed Shop Designed Solution To Save Your Automatic Transmission Modulator Under Boost!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – It’s no secret that we here at BangShift have a soft spot for the few remaining speed shops that dot this country. They remind of us of a time when...

SCTA El Mirage Land Speed Photos Galore: The June Meet Was A Big One!

The SCTA has been running like gangbusters at El Mirage this year, with great weather and killer track conditions that mean really good records. Hell, the track was so good this past weekend we have...

Barnstormin’: Mangled Memories

Every hot rodder seems to do it. I know I do and now I know Art Arfons did as well. We all hang on to blown up, busted, or otherwise destroyed parts and pieces of cars that we used to ow or race, or...

ADRL Action Photos: Pro Drag Radial, Pro Extreme, Pro Mod, Pro Nitrous, And More!

This past weekend was a huge event for the ADRL and BangShift.com as we brought you FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO of every run at the ADRL U.S. Drag VI presented by Simply Phones, which had the largest...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Body Style Gasser?

With our friends the Geezer Gassers once again showing the world a good time at this weekend’s Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, it got us thinking. What body style gasser would we build if we...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Truckin” The Grateful Dead (1970) “What a long, strange trip it’s been”

This is a first folks. The Dead on BangShift.com. Wow, this might be as big a deal as this song being listed as a National Treasure by the Library of Congress in 1997. Ahhh, our tax dollars at work,...

More Breaking News: Island Dragway In New Jersey WILL REOPEN!!! Maybe As Early As July!

That’s right folks, Island Dragway which closed last December, is reopening! They sent us the news, saying that they are looking for some help, but are hoping to be up and running again as...

Breaking Pro Mod News: Doug Riesterer To Replace Monroe Guest In Haney’s Camaro This Weekend!

You heard it here first! This weekend, Keith Haney Racing will be fielding both their Red and Black Lucas Oil Camaros at the X-DRL X-treme Gateway Showdown, but the black car is going to be driven by...

Video: Ulegal Tearing It Up At Brasher Nats 2013. Don’t Get It? Read On

Ulegal tearing it up means insane Australian burnout action ladies and gentlemen, although they call them skids. We still don’t get that part, but they are Australian after all so we’ll...