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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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The RV Go-Kart Lives And It Is AWESOME – Video Of It Being Built And Thrashed!

We told you that this was going to be totally fantastic and it is. On the last episode of his show Dirt Every Day Fred Williams bought an old motorhome and began to pull the whole thing apart with...

2001 Mallet Corvette Saved From Corvette Museum Sinkhole Is The Most Thoroughly Devastated Car We Have Ever Seen

The amazing effort to “save” all eight Chevrolet Corvettes that fell into the now famous sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky is officially over with the...

Watch The Ultimate Monster Truck Fail Go Down – Grave Digger Thwarted By Junked Cars

What’s the ultimate monster truck fail, you ask? How about wrecking your truck when hitting the cars and failing to crush a single one. That’s what happens in this video and that pretty...

eBay Find: The Original Mickey Thompson Revelleader 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Body

One of the coolest funny car bodies of all time is for sale. Yes, it has a chassis, too but that chassis it not the original pipe, so we’re more gaga over the body than anything else. The 1973...

Watch Our Buddy James Crosby Attack The Autocross Course In The RideTech West Coast Camaro – No Dead Cones

Our pal James Crosby is a pretty neat guy. He’s one heck of a fabricator and hot rod builder, his whole life has been spent around racing and hot rods, and he’s the go-to guy on the west...

The PDRA Invades Rockingham – First Ever Race Is Big Success For Organization – Race Coverage and Photos here –

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Great crowd large amount of competitors and high performances at the first stop of the PDRA series.  This year Nitrous and blown cars are entirely...

Here’s A Collection Of The Coolest Trucks We Saw At Goodguys Del Mar 2014

Trucks. We know ’em and we love ’em here at BangShift and that is why we took special care to shoot photos of the coolest, weirdest, wildest, and most interesting trucks at the 2014...

Watch Jeff Lutz’s New ’57 “Evil Twin” Chevy Make 2,140hp At The Tires On The Dyno! Nasty Stuff –

Let there be no question, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week has officially entered into the “nuclear arms race” stage at this point in the game. In this video you will see the “Evil...

Out With Their Boots On: Ford Announces Final Falcon GT For Australian Market – We Lament It

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – Ford of Australia has announced the final run of Falcon GT’s before they halt operations. The model, known as GT-F (the F being for “final”), will feature the...

Torture Video: How Ford Tests The F150 To The Brink Of Death In 10 Different Ways

Let’s be brutally honest here, The F150 is the single most important product that the Ford Motor Company makes. No single vehicle in existence puts more money toward the company’s bottom...

Crazy Collision Between A Minivan And A Cement Truck Caught On Dashcam!

There aren’t many Youtube videos that make me visibly flinch, but trust me, this is one of them. Watching a fully-loaded cement truck roll over and barrel towards the camera has been known to...

Rat Rods, Street Machines, Hot Rods, And Woodie Wagons At Goodguys Del Mar

This hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show continues today with a gallery containing some really interesting freak cars. Not all of them are freaks but there are two jumping out at...

Hamburger’s Releases NEW Two Piece Front Cover For LS Engines – Even Easier Cam Swaps For LS Owners

Of the many reasons that LS engines have invaded every corner of the hot rodding world, one of the biggest is that they are pretty easy to work on. No exotic tools are needed for jobs, the engine...

Spring 2014 Chattanooga Cruise In—More Than A Thousand Cars Take Over Corkyville

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – In case you didn’t know, a couple blocks of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee is known as Corkyville, because it’s the home of the Coker Tire Company...