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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Wild 1981-1985 Era Of Formula One Cars Race At Monaco Again! 1980s F1 Gold at the 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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Tommy Johnson Jr Suffers A Boomer Of A Funny Car Explosion At Englishtown

Tommy Johnson Jr. suffered a pretty nasty explosion while driving the Make A Wish funny car at the Toyota NHRA Summernationals yesterday. The car was on what seemed to be a nice, clean run when it...

Watch a Dirt Track Dwarf Car Become a Single Seat Stunt Plane – The Landing Sucks

We got tipped off to this video by BS reader OldSchoolCamaro who is a member in a dirt track racing club that competes with dwarf cars. As you’ll see, these little motorcycle engine powered...

Watch An Old IROC Second Generation Camaro Formerly Raced By Al Unser Eat The Hay HARD At Goodwood

Driver John Truslove was giving this cool black Camaro a pretty good run up the course to the delight of the massive crowds at the event when he lost the handle on the car and put it face first into...

Crazy Photos: The Most Insanely Used Up Brake Rotor in the History of Mankind

(Photos by Jay Spinella) – Admittedly, when I got these photos from Jay Spinella on Saturday, I had imbibed a few adult beverages, so you’ll understand when I was wondering what in the...

Noted Car Collector Ron Pratte Is Selling His Entire Collection At Barrett-Jackson In Scottsdale!

Barrett-Jackson has just announced that ultra famous car collector Ron Pratte is going to be selling off his entire collection at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale. Pratte is known for being...

This Winnebago Burns The Hides Better Than John Force! A Motorhome Burnout Video You Won’t Believe.

You know how much we dig old motorhomes around here, and since the kids are all getting out of school and parent’s should be embarking on road trips, we are hoping that some of you BangShifters...

The Parting Shift: Powershifting Second Gear From Third Gear Is Not Good

Thus far we’ve showcased guys really getting it done with manual transmissions with our Parting Shift items. Today we take an ominous turn into the world of fail. See that tach needle buried...

Friday BOOM: Here’s A Massive Nitrous Explosion From The 2009 Shakedown At E-Town

This is Jeff Rodgers’ Executioner Pro Mod at the 2009 Shakedown at E-Town in Englishtown, New Jersey and at that race the car suffered one of the more massive nitrous pops we have ever...

A Classic Camaro Hit This Camry And The Camry Exploded Like It Was In A Jerry Bruckheimer Movie

We’ve been trying to dig up more photos and information on this crash that happened the other day in Kentucky but at this point we’re coming up empty handed. Basically the story is that a...

Craigslist Find: Is This 383 Chevy Powered, 1984 Pontiac T1000 Worth $4,000?

BangShifter Chris Cabe gets the credit for finding this mean spirited little car for sale on Craigslist and sharing it with us. The mean machine is a 1984 Pontiac T1000 which packs a 383 Chevy small...

USCA Daytona Gallery: Big Fun On The Tall Banks Of A Legendary American Racetrack – Pro Touring Gets Real

(Photos by Mike Mendenhall/RideTech) – If the Ultimate Street Car Series has proven one thing thus far on the 2014 tour, it is that pro touring is not longer some sort of passing thing that was...

Mr. Bean Helped Save A Rich American Guy Who Wrecked His McLaren F1 In Italy

Rowan Atkinson, the British actor who plays the role of comedically weird Mr. Bean on stage and screen recently help rescue a rich American businessman who wrecked his McLaren F1 while on a driving...

Watch Tim Arfons Make A Run In His Front Engine Turbine Dragster – Now With The Devil’s Cigarette Lighter Fire Show

We’ve showed you video of Tim Arfons’ awesome recreation of the Green Monster front engine turbine dragster that he debuted last year before but this is the first one we have seen in 2014...

RideTech’s USCA Daytona Weekend Was Awesome – See How The Cars Performed, How They Thrashed To Fix Carnage, and More!

Last weekend, the USCA visited the high banks of Daytona International Speedway and RideTech was there in force with a fleet of haul ass cars. The “house” cars were as varied as the...