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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 3 and 4 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat. It’s all big...

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Street Freak – Part 7: This Mid-Engine Drag And Drive Lambo Powered All-Wheel Drive Volvo Needs To Be Ready For Street Week!

Here’s the seventh video in the series, and more fab work is happening because some stuff hasn’t worked out so far. Now that doesn’t mean all is lost, but it does mean the pressure is...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Making Headway On The Custom One Off Front And Rear Bumpers

Custom bumpers baby! The custom bumpers on this truck are something special and although Brent has gone back and forth on them, we know they are going to be something special. I love the idea of...

Will Dylan McCool’s RATTY 1969 Charger Survive A 1,400+ Mile Road Trip! The Summer Heat Has Been A Killer!

Dylan’s 1969 Dodge Charger has been under the knife for a while. He’s been working on it and “restoring” it in hopes of being able to get it out on the road for some fun...

Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

This is easily one of the most awesome Lego builds we have ever seen. We know we had some rotary stuff on the front page today already but this is in a different league. The whole engine is custom...

Awesome Historic Video: Road Racing on the Streets of Pontiac Michigan in 1975

In 1974 and again in 1975 the streets of downtown Pontiac, Michigan were turned into a road course that hosted a couple large scale road racing events. These were “outlaw” events in the...

Amazing Video: This 1960 United States Air Force Review Has Footage Of The X-15, Kittinger’s Jump, and So Much More

  This 1960 film made by the US Air Force is a review of all the stuff that they had going on that year. It is astonishing and incredible to see everything that was happening. From the X-15...

Attainable Fantasy Car: This Review Of The 1994 SLP Firebird Firehawk Reminds Us How Awesome It Was

Gearheads are worrywarts, generally speaking. Every time something changes with one of our favorite cars we assume the worst. This is doubly true when it comes to performance models like the Mustang,...

Hear Richard Petty’s 1970 Superbird Roar Back to Life with Kyle Petty Behind the Wheel! Hemi Awesomeness…

A Hemi Superbird is a bad ass no matter what, but when it is an actual race car and that race car belonged to Richard Petty, it’s truly something special. In this cool video from the Petty...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car at Road America: We take a look at the points chase after the mid-point of the 2024 season!

(Words by by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by Advance Auto Parts, makes seven stops before the grand finale in Las Vegas. Road America not...

Drag Race Photo Coverage From The 2024 NHRA Virginia Nationals: Nitro, Nitro, And More Nitro! Top Fuel And Funny Car Photos!

Here’s our second gallery of photos from VMP baby! This time it’s all Nitro classes, so if you love nitro then you’ll love this photo gallery. And if you missed the previous photos,...

Pontiac In 1971: This Compilation Of Pontiac Promotional Videos From The 1971 Model Year Is Awesome

We have showed a ton of cool manufacturer promotional films over the years. We have also told you about the training films that the companies would make and still make to train their sales people but...

The Heavy Iron: This 1969 John Deere 860 Elevating Scraper Promotional Film Is Awesome

It has been too long since we’d talked heavy equipment here on BangShift. Today we’re fixing that with this killer John Deere promotional film for their 860 elevating scraper that was...

Oops! This Collection Of Old School Wild Rides, Carnage, and Funny Moments In Pulling Is Great

Back in the day, kids, there were these things called magazines and one of them, “Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off Road” always had a back page called, “Whoops!” and there...

Return To Le Mans: This 1967 Ford Video Recounts Their Second Conquering Of The World’s Greatest Endurance Race

It was not simply enough for Ford to come and win Le Mans once. The first time was sweet but additional wins would continue to pile drive the point home that the company was serious about racing,...