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California Man Reunited with Stolen 1969 Camaro Bought Brand New By His Vietnam Veteran Father!

We hear about car thefts all the time, and have been victims ourselves, so when we saw this story on the national news this morning we knew we had to share it. In 1969, after returning home from the...

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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway Featured Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 2nd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check the out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Southeast Gassers Association 2026: First Drag Race of The Year from Shadyside Dragway

Here’s a livestream replay from the Southeast Gassers Association’s First Race of 2026 at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina. If you like traditional nose high gassers that still row the gears,...

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Webster Race Engineering In England Is Building An Awesome Bentley Drag Car

…and now for something completely different. How awesome is this build coming from the shop of Webster Race Engineering who are the crew responsible for brining other notable cars like Andy...

Action Video: Watch Jimmie Lynch Torture A 1936 Plymouth!

When it comes to “Best job to talk about at a party”, stunt driver must rank pretty far up the list. Sure, being an astronaut would take the cake and being a doctor isn’t shabby by any means,...

eBay Find: In 1987 This Very Trick And Largely Stock 1973 Blazer Won Its Class At The Baja 1000

Some of you will immediately jump ugly at the prospect of calling a 1973 Blazer with a 500ci Cadillac engine and other modifications “largely stock” but let’s really be honest here....

A Peek Behind The Curtain At DMC Racing – Cool Builds In Progress!

Last week we stopped into DMC Racing in Halifx, Massachusetts to hang out and see what was new and exciting at the shop. We were not let down by what we found, which was a veritable raft of...

2014 PRO Winter Warm Up – All Of Our Photos – Pits, Flaming Nitro Action!

Nitro teams were attacking the famed quarter mile at Palm Beach International Raceway in West Palm Beach, Florida with zeal on Thursday as the week long NHRA nitro pre season testing session moved...

Bitchin’ Video: Watch a Seriously Bad Ass 1973 Camaro Attack the Autocross

So in this video we have a hood view of Brian Hobaugh’s gnarly sounding 1973 Camaro attacking the autocross. Brian’s orange screamer is well known and has gotten lots of ink in magazines...

Great Gasser And Funny Car Race Jim “Fireball” Shores Has Died At 86 Years Old

A tough weekend for drag racing legends for sure as Ken Dondero passed away and now news comes in that gasser and funny car great Jim Shores has died. Shores was the wrenching half of the famed...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The World War 1 Russian Lebedenko Tank

This thing is by far the weirdest and possibly most massive self-propelled land vehicle we’ve ever heard of. Built by a Russian engineer as the ultimate weapon for use in WWI, it ended up as a...

Video: “Car Fighting” Video Is Unreal

Have you ever watched a video where something you love is destroyed? You know that you shouldn’t watch, but you can’t peel your eyes away from the screen until it’s over? Maybe you...

A Photo From The Lohnes Archive: An Awesome Road Racing Malibu

SCCA racing gets unfairly labeled as being high brow and clean handed. I can attest as a low brow person who was normally up to his neck in fluids leaking from a VW Rabbit that it’s totally...

Video: Super Bitchin 1966 Ford F100 Pre-Runner Truck Catching Air At The Dunes

We always love jumping videos around here, and have also been getting into the whole pre-runner vibe while working on the $200 Hauler so when we can across this cool video from MOTOLife we had to run...

REPLAY: BANGSHIFT 2014 PRO WINTER WARM-UP BROADCAST

  To answer the most popular question that we have received at BangShift world HQ over the last two weeks….YES we will be live broadcasting the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach...

The RideTech Barrett-Jackson Adventure Continues….The Day Three Report With Photos Here!

Bret Voelkel of RideTech has been filing daily dispatches from the 2014 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. He’s there to sell his wife Sharon’s Pontiac GTO convertible along with his...

Top Secret Drag Tech: Toyota Racing Racing Has An Interesting New Device For Measuring Track Grip!

The photo below was taken yesterday on the starting line of Palm Beach International Raceway and it shows an interesting device that was being used, maybe for the first time in public, by the fellow...