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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Vice Grip Garage ALMOST Won A Helicopter At The Freedom 500!.. And Then He Accidentally Destroyed His Friends Turbo Pacer

The Freedom 500 is one awesome race, but that’s not just because the action is fun to watch. This race is something special because the people racing in it are some of your favorite YouTubers...

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Texas Street CASH DAYS Action From 1320Video: Huge Wheelies, Close Calls, & MORE! Plus Win A Corvette!

Texas street racing royalty, and some new characters alike, were on hand for the Cash Days street racing that was going down during the dark hours after TX2K at the Texas Motorplex. It was the first...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Jet Airliner – The Steve Miller Band (1977)

Here’s a fitting one to round out the BangShift blog week with as both Chad and I have been on planes heading to different places since you last read the blog yesterday. Chad winged off to...

A Guy I Once Spent Nearly 24 Hours Straight In A Truck With Just Reset The Guinness Record For World’s Longest Drift (Video)

Johan Schwartz is a damned fine driver, a BMW instructor, the Guinness World Record holder for completing the world’s longest drift (at more then 51-MILES in lenght) and is a guy I spent 24...

NASCAR History BangShift Style: Cool Photos And History From The Era Of Regular Guy Stock Car Heroes!

(Photos – Dave Sanders Collection) – Stock car racing’s roots are well known. From the days of the moonshiners to the entrance of Big Bill France and his efforts to organize all of...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Builds Going On All Over The Place – Great Photos From Across The Country!

We know that there are lots of you out there that eschew Facebook as some sort of wasteful time suck. We can respect that because we understand that soaking your teeth while you play bridge with your...

Show Gallery: More Killer Photos From The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we showed you the first of two galleries that our LA correspondent Scott Liggett filed from the 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show....

Caption This Photo: Giving A Whole New Meaning To Full Left Rudder!

This photo arrived through our tip line the other day and the dude who sent it isn’t answering any emails regarding where it came from, but holy crap is it awesome. It appears that these two...

Bitchin’ Video: In Car Racing Footage And A Video Feature Of Kris Henderson’s 200+ MPH 1959 Jaguar!

Kris Henderson is one of the coolest guys we know and his 200+ capable 1959 Jaguar, powered by one of the most pissed off Chevy rat motors we’ve ever heard is one of the coolest cars we know....

Celebrity Car Death Match: Jim Rockford’s Pontiac Firebird Esprit VS The Bandit Trans Am!

Two Pontiacs, two icons of cool, and only one can live. Obviously Jim Rockford is the underdog here, but then again, Jim Rockford was the flippin’ underdog in every episode of his show and he...

Awesome Video: Watch The Firebreathing Motorcycle Engined Slingshot Dragster From the Postman Pat Guys Fire Up!

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside we have great video showing a glimpse of the newest project from the group of wacky geniuses that brought us the Postman Pat van. Sticking with their...

Drag Gallery: Out Last Blast Of Photos From The 2013 Spring Throwdown In T-Town!

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Well we’ve finally run to the end of Brad Klaassen’s great photos from the 2013 spring Throwdown in T-Town. The race was a smashing success with the...

Would You Drive It?: A Solid Axle “Street Freak” ’66 Buick Skylark That’s For Sale

We remember when the “Street Freak” era was hot, tubs weren’t cool, and gassers weren’t the only thing with a straight axle. Of course if you really wanted to be the dude you...

Fuel Altered Video: NitroAmerica Presents The Outlaw Fuel Altered Association At North Star Dragway

Les Mayhew, owner/founder/editor/camera man, of Nitro America is one bitchin dude who know how to capture great things happening at great drag strips. He’s at it again with this video that...

Sideways with Rodney Prouty: Remember Where You Came From

(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty)  Every day I walk into work at a speed shop where I see black and white images of our racing legacy. We have tattered old posters of racing events at historic...

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Free Shipping Now Through May 31st: Could Save You Hundreds With American Powertrain

Ever ship a complete transmission? How about a trans, crossmember, shifter, clutch, bell housing, flywheel, driveshaft, pressure plate, nuts, bolts, and other hardware? Trust us, it can get pricey in...