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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The 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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The Mario Andretti Story: Racing’s Most Versatile Driver? America’s Greatest American Racer? Watch

Mario Andretti was a household name when I was growing up watching him race at the Indy 500 and such. His career is insane, with more wins and championships than you can shake a stick at. But what...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 2 of 5 – His Bandit Trans Am Gets New Suspension Installed!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In the...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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Here’s The Amazing Details And “Rest Of The Story” About The 6 And 9 Year Old That Drove Across America In 1910 – Very Cool Stuff

(By Bret Kepner) — (Editor’s note: Yesterday, Bret Kepner dropped me a note after seeing the story of the Abernathy brothers and their amazing feats of travel as kids in the early 1900s....

Jeff Gordon Taxi: How To Scare The Daylights Out Of A Doubting Jalopnik Writer – EPIC

This is totally one of the greatest pranks ever pulled in the history of the internet. Travis Okulski is the deputy editor of majorly huge automotive blog site Jalopnik and he was one of the most...

VIDEO: One of the most chilling crashes caught on video. It’s incredible that this guy fully recovered

You’ve probably never heard of Nigel Corner, but he’s a British driver mostly known now for racing vintage cars. In this absolutely amazing video from the old Speedvision — when...

eBay Find: $50,000 For 40 (Or More) 1960s Chevelles, Trucks, Impalas, and Lots Of Parts….But There’s A Little Catch

Well this certainly isn’t as cool as the 80-acre junkyard we told you about the other day, but it is certainly an interesting eBay listing that should spur some debate down in the ol’...

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Video Bonanza: People Freaking Out About Dale Earnhardt Jr Winning The 2014 Daytona 500

While we don’t have a “favorite” in NASCAR we enjoyed the fact that Dale Earnhardt won the 2014 Daytona 500 and it sure seems like a good thing for both the sport itself and...

Retro Gallery: A Collection Of Wheels Up, Burnout, And Action Photos From The 2013 March Meet — T-Minus One Week!

That’s right, kids! In less than one week BangShift will be LIVE and streaming the action from the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway as we have for several years thanks to the...

Vent Tech: The Guys at II Much Fabrication Give Info And Advice On Their Blog

We introduced many of you to II Much Fabrication’s line of vents a couple of weeks back in an update of Project Violent Valiant. Since then, II Much Fabrication has joined BangShift as an...

A New TV Show About Bitchin Vintage RV’s Is On It’s Way! Flippin’ RV’s Baby, We Love Them!

You guys all know how much I dig old RV’s and travel trailers. I mean, I worship them. The other day Bret Voelkel from Ridetech sent me a killer photo of a laid out camper van with a laid out...

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Quick Tech: How MSD’s TurboLuie Ran 8.22 At 169 In His Street Driven Mustang! And There’s More In It!

When Erik and the gang at MSD sent me the link to video of Luis Gutierrez’s 8.22 at 169 mph pass in his street driven Fox Body Mustang, I was impressed. Like a lot of good drag radial cars,...

Top 11: We Pick The Top 11 Cars Of 1967 — Some Curveballs In Here For Sure!

(By Scott Liggett) – 1967 was a good year, not because you were a hippie trekking to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. But, for the amazing collection of cars being put on the road from...

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Mondo-Roto Video: More New Footage Of The 12 Rotor Engine On The Dyno – The Sound Is Good

As we told you the other day, the 12 rotor engine made initial, low RPM dyno runs and survived so now the mill is back at home to be pulled apart, inspected, upgraded with EFI and prepared for its...

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BangShift Question of the Day: What Historical Automotive Figure Would You Pluck From the Past Into the Present?

Every time we post a cool video, document a racing accomplishment, or revel in the pure awesome of a video we found on the interwebs we end up thinking that Mickey Thompson should have been there to...

Hacks of the Week from Reddit’s JustRolledIntoTheShop

Sometimes it’s DIY gone wrong, sometimes its a catastrophic failure at a shop full of trained mechanics. Either way, they’re hilariously awful, and that’s why we call them the Hacks...

How A Classic Camaro Changed My Life – One Woman’s Battle With “The Mistress” Turns Into An Interesting Threesome

(Words and Photos by Suzy Bauter, Intro by Rodney Prouty and Chad) I first met Suzy Bauter in a hotel parking lot after her and her partner in crime, and Sideway’s author, Rodney Prouty...