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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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Paint And Body 101: How To Eliminate Orange Peel So You Can Paint Like A Pro! Kevin Tetz Walks Us Through The Process

Kevin Tetz is a bad ass. We’ve said it multiple times, but some things are worth repeating. He’s been painting cars and trucks for decades, showing millions how to do it on tv for...

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CHEAPEST Lincoln EVER! Will $155 Make It Run and Drive? Free Lincoln, Plus Free Big Block, Equals FUN!

Dylan McCool knows how to take advantage of some good fortune. When he was offered a big boat of a Lincoln, for free, and had already been given a 460 big block Ford, for free, he knew that the...

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Wheelstanding Greatness! Les Mayhew’s Latest Video Brings Nostalgia Super Stock Right To Your Screen.

When Les Mayhew, through his NitroAmerica brand of videos, brings racing action to your computer screen, you know he gets it. This week he sent us his latest which highlights the 2013 Victory...

Ride Along In A Vintage Trans-AM Javelin As It Hot Laps The Road Course At Pueblo Motorsports Park

A road course, a driver, and a screaming AMC small block tucked into a vintage Javelin are three great things. Combined they make for video that demands cranked up speakers and an ear to ear grin....

Video Bonanza: Vintage Jeep Ads of the Kaiser Era

Jeep is one of the most enduring brand names in the history of the American auto industry. Jeep has survived multiple owners and multiple attempts to dilute a  proud brand with namby pamby weiner...

The 2013 Houston Autorama – Our Last Blast Of Great Photos From The Event!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – I’m pretty much certain that I can claim without contradiction that BangShift has provided more great photo coverage of the 2013 Houston Autorama than anyone...

Not Safe For Work: Sienna Miller Caresses The New 2015 Mustang. Arousel Is Eminent!

Take one hot actress and model, Sienna Miller, add one of the most iconic muscle cars in American history, caress softly, and stand back cause she’s gonna blow. Ford and Rankin reveal the new...

We’ve Got Photos From The Last NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum Twilight Cruise Of 2013!

I know that most of you will say that we are a bunch of wimps, or some other more appropriate and vulgar descriptor, but it was cold at last nights NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum Twilight...

The Blues Brothers Mall Chase Scene Recreated With Legos Is The Best Thing Ever

The title is the absolute truth. You have to watch this video, it is totally awesome. With the sound dubbed in from the movie and the entire scene done with Legos we were dying laughing about five...

Watch A Land Speed Racing Corvette Suffer A Nitrous Explosion And Become An Inferno At The Texas Mile

Yikes! This is a pretty nuts video that was shot at the Texas Mile during the 2013 season by the crew at GearheadFlicks. The video, which has in car and out of car footage shows a heavily modified C6...

Check Out The Ultra Rare, Turned Pro Street, Chevelle Wagon We Found On Ebay!

When Jesus “Chuy” Nava sends over a tip or lead for a story we never know what we’re going to get. Imagine our surprise when what we saw was an Ebay listing for a Pro Street 1965...

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2013 Houston Autorama Gallery: From Wild Lowrider Trucks To LS Powered Rats, This Gallery Has ‘Em! (Bonus Gene Winfield Action!)

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – If cars are an extension of their owner and their owners culture than car shows should be the same thing, right? This gallery from the 2013 Houston Autorama is a...

The Wally’s World GTO Gets A New Hurst Shifter And Centerforce DYAD Clutch Setup

One of the most iconic parts in any stick shift muscle car is the Hurst Shifter. And if you are going to be building big power and ripping on that shifter, you are going to need a good clutch like...

Here’s An Actual Photo Of The 2015 Mustang – Is Your Opinion The Same?

Here’s an actual photo of the car that was revealed by TIME Magazine today, most likely because Ford was freaked at the craptastic quality of the cell-phone shots of a copy of Autoweek that...

What it Looks Like When a 4700ci Caterpillar Mining Dump Truck Engine Explodes

We received a tip e-mail from BangShift reader John Rasmussen that contained a series of photos that literally stopped us in our tracks. The photos, according to the text in the e-mail show a...

The Aussies Do Group Burnouts To Start Off Their House Parties! The Rest Of Us Suck

Seriously, I’ve never actually thrown a house party before. Or at least not the way the Aussies do it. This video shows that Aussies do group burnouts to start their house parties. Or at least...