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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Vision Quest: This Period Perfect 1971 Demon Was Built By A Kid Born 20 Years Late

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We all do the hot rodding thing for different reasons. We have different tastes, different motivations, and different opinions on how to best capture the right look...

Watch Autocross Ninja Brian Finch Attack The Cones In His Completely Nasty Camaro At Goodguys Nashville – Screaming V8 Sound

Those of you familiar with the pro touring scene know the name Brian Finch. He’s been wheeling hardcore stuff around road courses and cones for many years and he’s been doing it with a...

Awesome Under Hood Video Of A COPO Camaro Making A Drag Strip – Watch What Happens To The Belt Tensioner

Ok, this video is pretty nuts and not because something explodes, catches on fire, or crashes, but because get a great look at what exactly happens to a serpentine belt during a drag strip pass with...

Crazy Carnage Videos: Guy Crashes a Top Fuel Bike…A Few Times!

The BangShift.com members come up with some cool stuff, and this time we got tipped by a forum post from user jword2001. He posted the video seen below that shows Top Fuel Motorcycle rider Korry...

The Life and Rocket Propelled Times of Captain Jack McClure, One of Drag Racing’s Most Incredible Performers

In May of 2009, we ran a story about one of the most truly insane drag racing vehicles of all time, the rocket propelled go kart of Florida’s Captain Jack McClure. We wrote the story and...

Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Releases New Clutch And Throttle Position Activation Switch

One of the coolest things about modern hot rodding is that true modern hot rods have all kinds of interesting features built into them that can be tweaked and used for the gain of BangShifters the...

Watch An LS Powered BMW Equipped With Trick Flow Heads And Other Speed Parts Bust 150 At The Ohio Mile

While the “LS in everything” movement can get tiresome at times and people get annoyed by some of the swaps, we’re pretty sure few people will argue with the idea of jamming an LS...

LIVE BLOG: A Day In The BangShift Life – Follow Along As Lohnes and Chad Travel To Different Places Together

So here’s the deal. As you are reading this, both Chad and I are heading to different parts of the USA so we figured that we’d give you a day in the life, as live as we possibly can, of...

The Parting Shift: A Screaming Detroit and 13-Speeds

We’re going two-stroke diesel with this week’s parting shift. This video rules on a couple of levels, but the sounds of the Deeetroit Diesel screaming away is something to note as well as...

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WTF Video: Please, Please, Please Help Us Figure Out Why This Virtually Submerged Big Rig Is Driving Down A River

We have posted nearly 11,000 blog items here on BangShift in the five (going on six) years we have been in business and NONE OF THEM has elicited the type of initial response that this video clip...

Take A Great Look Inside The North Carolina Motorsports Hall Of Fame – Incredible Cars And History

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We swear, when Joe Grippo went to North Carolina he visited every cool place that there was to visit including the North Carolina Motorsports Hall Of Fame. Notice what...

XL eBay Find: A Hummer That Isn’t Really A Hummer But Is More BangShifty Than A Hummer

Sometimes things are not what they appear to be and this truck pretty much sums that up to a T. What you think you are looking at is a military spec Hummer that has been upgraded, updated, and made...

Hot Rod Garage Debuts On The MotorTrend Channel – Watch The First Episode Here – Wrenching, Racing, Fun!

Finnegan and Freiburger are out with their new show called Hot Rod Garage which is a more traditional gearhead show like you’d watch on regular ol’ TV. This is NOT replacing Roadkill or...

Fire Breathing Monsters: This Documentary Style Look At NHRA Drag Racing From RED Digital Cinema Is Awesome

Red Digital Cinema makes some insanely awesome cameras and equipment. Chad and I have seen the RED guys at different events this year like the pre-season PRO Winter Warm Up nitro testing session that...