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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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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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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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Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The Hotchkis Autocross At The NMCA West Coast Shootout Are Right Here

This is it folks, we’ve got nothing left. Our final gallery of photos from the Hotchkis Autocross at the NMCA West Coast Shootout is right here. More cars sliding around corners, killing cones,...

10 Outrageous Caravan Videos You Have To Watch. We’re Talking Travel Trailer Carnage Extraordinaire.

In Europe, RV or Travel Trailers are called Caravans. You’ve seen the guys on Top Gear make fun of them, destroy them, and make incredibly crude jokes about them, and ultimately even build...

Rough Start: This Buick Needs To Be Picked Up Now!

From the insanity of Topeka I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, mainly in the vain hope that I could find a Dodge truck I used to own to buy back. The second I saw this 1973 Buick Century, however, I forgot...

Briggs And Stratton 4-Cylinder Build Videos Part Deux… We Want One!

Yesterday we gave you the first set of videos in the complete chronicle of building what we believe is the first Briggs and Stratton 4 cylinder engine ever. We could be wrong, it’s happened...

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A Fleet of Military Trucks is Going Up For Auction, And Lohnes Isn’t Around To Drool Over It.

So the boss man is out with the missus on a cruise in the tropics while I sit in my wife’s office, borrowing internet to keep everyone entertained. I sincerely hope those piña coladas...

Watch This Explorer Go For Distance (No Rednecks Were Harmed In The Making Of This YouTube Video)

Before the Internet, daydreaming meant that you were staring off into space while your mind was taking a trip to Aruba or something like that. In the Age of Internet, I’m pretty sure that for a...

Photos And More Photos From Fords At Carlisle, The Grand Daddy Of All Ford Shows

Fords At Carlisle, aka the Carlisle Ford Nationals, is the largest all Ford show in the world, and happens to be a short drive from BangShift Photog extraordinaire Joe Grippo’s house....

Back In The 1950s Through 1970s, The Sears Catalog Was Jammed Full Of Cool Car Stuff, Check It Out Here

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I learned a lot from car magazines like everybody else. The Fitzgeralds weren’t the Rockefellers, though, and we didn’t have fancy things like...

More Action Shots From The USCA Optima Face Off At Road America Pro Touring Race

If you like seeing early and late model muscle cars, battling it out with super cars, imports, and whatever will show up, then the USCA Optima Face Off At Road America was the event you should have...

Check Out The Sexy That Hurst Is Bringing Back! It’s Not Linda Vaughn…But It’s Close!

The aftermarket is getting better and better about cool videos all the time, and we like what the guys at Hurst have ended up rolling with. We dig the message of this video, the style, and the...

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We Found A 440 Powered ’23 T Bucket For Sale! We Should Take Donations To Buy It For Brian

It’s no secret that I’m incredibly particular, and down right judgmental about T-Buckets. Meanwhile, my partner in crime Brian Lohnes thinks these suckers rock. And that is why I have...

Aeromotive Calls Out The Crooks! Beware Of Fake Aeromotive Fuel Systems Components

We love it when companies have the balls to just step up and defend themselves when something isn’t right. Steve Matusek, Vic Wood, and the rest of the gang at Aeromotive Fuel Systems have...

Rough Start: If You Squint Hard Enough, You Might See A Killer Austin-Healy Project!

Topeka, Kansas. Land of flat ground, moronic cult protesting types, the most “special” Hooters waitresses EVER, and Ron Ward, a proud BangShifter who tipped me off to the remains of this...

Watch This 1300 Horsepower Rotary Powered Jet Sprint Boat Fly Around The Track

Jet Sprint Boat racing rules. It’s like Autocross on water, but with the added danger of actual land to run up on right next to the course. It’s been a growing sport for the past several...