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Jay Leno’s 1940 Indian Chief Was Crashed, Totaled, and Remade From Scratch! All At Jay Leno’s Garage

Jay Leno’s car and motorcycle collection is something truly special, a collection like it exists nowhere else in the world. He’s got several buildings at his place next to Burbank...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our Second Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

We’ve got more racing action from Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive! (Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day...

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More From The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our third gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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The 2026 Goodwood Festival Of Speed Did Not Disappoint! Here Are The 19 Wildest Moments | 2026 Festival of Speed

I cna’t imagine having to choose which runs are going to make the highlight videos for the Goodwood Festival of Speed each year, because there are so many awesome cars and people at the event....

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Which Shop Vac Destroyed the Competition? This All Out Shop Vac Test Just Might Suprise You? Which Ones Suck and Don’t Suck?

The puns just write themselves when it comes to a Shop Vac testing video. I mean isn’t the point of a shop vac to suck? Anyways, in the video below you’ll find a bunch of your favorite...

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California Off-Road Racing From Glen Helen: This Is The American Rentals Freedom Cup Race Replay!

Glen Helen is one of the most famous off-road racing destinations around because of the history of all the amazing races that have been held their over the years. From desert off-road racing to short...

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Hotchkis Sport Suspension End Of Summer Sale Means Big Time Savings Are At Hand! Over $1,000 On Some Products

Sad as it is to say, Summer is nearly over and that means (for most of us) that it will be soon time to park the cars and get thinking on plans for 2015. Well, the people at Hotchkis know that and...

Three Guys, A Dragster, A Wounded Station Wagon, And A Rickety Trailer – An Adventure For The Ages In 1978

(Words and Photos by Carl Blanton) – (Editor’s note: There are few cooler things in the world to read than racers telling their stories of high adventure from back in the day. I was...

Gallery: Cool Engines Captured From The BangShift Photo Vault

(Photos from the BangShift collection) — I have always thought that engines make for compelling photos. The way people modify them, the way they dress them up, the way they try to disguise or...

Rough Start, The Drag Week Edition: This 4th Gen Is A Power Adder Away From Greatness

Since the bosses are out enjoying Drag Week, I decided that my contribution to the events (besides keeping BangShift rolling along) would be to mess with the Rough Start parameters in the goal of...

BangShift Doorslammer Gallery: Action Photos From The PDRA Meet Last Weekend

(Photos by David Whealon) – When BS shooter David Whealon sent me a note saying that he was thinking of attending the PDRA Race at Rockingham Dragway and bringing his camera, I was pretty...

We Get The Inside Scoop On What It Was Like At The Inaugural Speedway Motors CAM Invitational Challenge

(Photos and words by Lance Hamilton) [Nutting: By now most Bangshift readers should be familiar with my daily driver 1987 Monte Carlo LS that I autocross on a regular basis in the Classic American...

Show Gallery: Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show at Bruster’s Ice Cream in Bowling Green, KY

Most anywhere in America, you can find a car cruise of some type during the summer months. It might take a little investigation or a short drive but they can be found, and can vary from a few cars to...

Just In Case You Thought Dodge Had A Shred Of Sanity Left, Now You Can Lease A Hellcat

At just north of sixty grand, the Hellcat is a bargain for it’s power output. But one would think that people would straight-up buy their Charger or Challenger…while sixty large...

Craigslist Find: A Reader Suggestion For A BangShift Command Center

Lohnes and I have been going back and forth over a BangShift Command Center Vehicle. I want the overkill coach bus setup so that we can quit staying in crime-scene hotels and can have air...

Epic Craigslist Find: “I Know What This Car Is Worth Restored, Don’t Low-Ball Me”

Sometimes the truth is stranger than the fiction. It’s obvious that the only thing left to do to this Duster is to raid it for pieces and let it die a somewhat dignified death. Instead, I give...

This All Aluminum Hemi Small Block Chevy Hemi Uses Some Of The Most Rare Speed Parts Ever – A Never Assembled Freak!

There’s strange stuff, there’s weird stuff, there’s unobtanium, and then there is this. What you are looking at is a Leo Lyons small block Chevy hemi from the early 1970s....

Drag Week 2014: Photos And Results From Day One In Tulsa! Bailey Leads The Way, Lutz Is Fast, Cline Flies, Larson Runs 6.99

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Few things often live up to the advanced hype before an event but the first day of Hot Rod Drag Week 2014 sure as heck did! Tom Bailey left Tulsa with the lead on...

Project Violent Valiant Update: Safety Equipment, Pre-Assembly, And The Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Project Violent Valiant sure is coming along. We recently caught up with builder Kevin Tully at his shop, Ho Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois and he told us about the recently progress on the car,...

Caption This: Write The Craigslist Ad For This Poor Jeep

“It ain’t for sale. I’m gonna fix it up one day.” Ever hear that line? I have. From a ragged-out Camaro to a ’73 ‘Cuda in waist-high grass, it’s always the...