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Bug Jam Festival 2026 Livestream: Epic Weather For One Of The Coolest Summer Events At Santa Pod In England! Plenty of Action!

I love VWs, and have always wanted one. So when I saw that Santa Pod was streaming their Bug Jam Festival again this year I figured I’d share it with all of you guys as well. Whether you like a...

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Drag Racing Livestream: Division 1 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series from Numidia Dragway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest on the east coast and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. Check it...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! The Fuel Tank Turned Out To Be Too Big, So It’s Getting Cut Up And Made Right!

Sometimes the best layed plans just don’t work out quite right. Take the fuel tank in this FJ40 for example. Shannon built this thing big, but just a bit too big. Unfortunately it...

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Dune Session Video: Wheelies, Jumps, and Pure Adrenaline From Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan!

We love playing in the sand dunes. For those folks who don’t live near them, you are missing out. And where the sand dunes are located dictates when people go play in them. In Michigan, where...

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Dylan McCool is SELLING IT ALL! Okay, Well Some Of It Anyway. So Buy His Junk And Make It Yours!

It seems like a lot of YouTubers have been on a purging mission recently, getting rid of projects and cars that no longer inspire them or are being use. Freiburger has been doing it for months, and...

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Unreal Adventure 2026 Dirty Dozen Announced! Who is your favorite for UA2026? Check Out Who Got In!

We talk about Unreal Adventure a lot because it’s just such a cool event and is run by such cool people. We’ve said for the past few years how much we’d love to go on this trip and...

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Video: How To Sell The Toyota Hilux Using A Lot Of Japanese Businessmen And A Gorilla

The Toyota Hilux is a world-renowned badass, known for it’s reliability and toughness, the likes of which have been tested over battlefields and damn near everything that Top Gear has ever...

Hellcat, Now In Screaming Passengers Edition-Charger Will Get Mopar’s Newest Mountain Motor!

This was speculated ever since the Hellcat rumors started spreading around, but now that the SAE paperwork for a Hellcat Charger was discovered, it’s confirmed. Charger mules with the nose...

Historical Crash-Test Footage: You Might Not Want To Watch Your Car Hit The Wall

Here’s how this story goes: I occasionally make fun of Brian’s addiction to all things involving large truck. He just nods and smiles. I take it a step further and call him out over the...

Rough Start: This Lincoln Will Be Waiting For You In Mobile

I’ve been to Mobile, Alabama once. I wasn’t supposed to go out of the hotel that night, but I did…walked about a mile, found a nice jazz joint with some killer food and soaked up...

Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Bonneville By The Numbers – Useful, Useless, Interesting, And Inane Stats For The Salt

With 100 years of racing history being celebrated on the Bonneville Salt Flats this August at SCTA Speed Week, I thought it would be interesting to delve into some of the stuff that can be gleaned...

FBI Searches Ford HQ After Employee Bugs A Conference Room. No, Really, It Happened.

This one sounds like it came directly from the Watergate files. A former Ford employee, 43 year old Sharon Leach, had her home raided by the FBI in June. Among items seized were computers, portable...

Chryslers At Carlisle 2014: Sweet Wagons, Vans, and Trucks – The Coolest Of The Cool

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Grippo was on the scene recently at the famed Chryslers at Carlisle show where some of the coolest, most rare, unique, and sought after Chrysler products...

Holley To Sponsor National Corvette Museum’s New Racetrack Control Tower Building – Will They Let Us In?

Chad and I got super excited when we heard that Holley and the National Corvette Museum had reached an agreement that will see Holley’s name proudly displayed as the sponsor of the new state of...

STARTING TOMORROW: The Salt Flats Of Salduro – Our Incredible Series Documenting The First Racing At Bonneville, 100 Years Ago

Starting tomorrow, we’ll begin publishing the first installment of the longest, most involved, and most detailed series of stories we have ever run on BangShift. Penned by Bret Kepner and...

KABOOM! Watch This Tractor Suffer A Violent And Fiery Explosion While Dragging The Sled

When Jason Fuqua put the hammer down in the cockpit of his Tennessee Tracks tractor, things were looking up. The machine was moving ahead, the nose was coming up ever so slightly, and he looked to be...

Somernites Cruise Action: Cars, Cruising, And Americana In The Heart Of Kentucky

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We had been wanting to visit Somernites for a long time and just hadn’t. The car hasn’t been anywhere yet this year because post-rebuild leaks. We...

NTPA Mule City 300 Pull – Action Photos From Galot Motorsports Park Where It All Happened

(Photos by David Whealon/DW Photos) – We have been telling you about the heavy duty work going on at Galot Motorsports Park in regard to the drag strip the is being revived on the property but...

Meet The Newest BangShift Project, “Angry Grandpa”, And Check Out The First Mod: A Cat-Back Magnaflow System!

After running my 2006 Chrysler 300C at London Dragway in Kentucky, I drove away both very impressed and wanting more. The big barge had turned better times than I was expecting; honestly, instead of...

Predictable Move: Hellcat Challenger 001 Off Assembly To Be Auctioned At Barrett-Jackson (Charity Gets Dough, So It Is All Good)

Remember back in the good old days…like 10 years ago when new cars would come out and arrive at the dealers to be driven off by happy new owners? Remember when THAT used to be the chain of...