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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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How Much Horsepower Does An Engine Driven Cooling Fan Really Take From Your Engine?

We tested alternators, engine driven fans, and other accessories on the dyno years ago and I can tell you that most of the accessories on the front of your engine take very little power to turn under...

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Watch The Champion Speed Shop Dragster Make The Quickest Small Block Chevy Quarter Mile Pass In History

One of the cool things that happened during the California Hot Rod Reunion was the Champion Speed Shop’s top fuel victory. It was cool for the history involved with driver Adam Sorokin, it was...

Watch An Early Mustang Convertible Dominate A British Production Stock Car Race In 1975 – Completely Hilarious

We’ve gotten this link sent to us a bunch of times and we finally have some space to jam the video up today and you are going to love it. Filmed in England back in 1975, the race is basically a...

More Cool Aussie Hot Rods At The Uraidla South Australia Hot Rod Show And Cruise

Yesterday we put up a bunch of cool photos from the Uraidla South Australia show that Darryl Daniels shot for us, and today we’ve got even more! Despite a bit of rain, the Aussies were out in...

Incredible: Two Russian Guys, Crash A Guardrail And Land In A River – Neither Really Care

This is literally the Russian dash cam video to end all Russian dash cam videos. It shows a car moving down a country road at a pretty good clip. The driver and passenger are speaking to each other...

BangShifter Ron Ward Picks The Coolest Cars of His Birth Year….1964!

(Words by Ron Ward, photos by interwebs) – I was fortunate enough to have been born in 1964. The Beatles were hot, skirts were getting shorter, cars were getting faster and it was a great time...

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Ford’s 1962 Mustang I Concept Car May Be The Coolest Thing At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show

Of all the neat stuff to gawk at inside Cobo Hall at the 2014 North American International Auto Show, Ford gets the nod from us for having the coolest vehicle…and it was built in 1962. This is...

This Video Of A 3,000hp Pro Mod Motor Making A Dyno Pull Is AWESOME

Danny Rowe Racing posted a video to their Facebook page yesterday showing Jimmy Rector, the team’s crew chief and long time builder of insanely powerful alcohol motors pulling one of the...

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Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac, At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show – A Photo Collection

While the Corvette and F-150 were grabbing all of the Monday headlines at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, there are other interesting bits of news as well. The 2015 GMC Canyon is one of them and we have...

Lucky’s Rod Run to the Chicken Oil Company 2014 – A Texas Sized Rod Run!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – It is funny how things happen some time. Almost 20 years ago William Lucky of Conroe, Texas happened upon a great restaurant called The Chicken Oil...

It’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Week! AFCO Is There Supporting Racers – MavTV Is There Getting Ready To Broadcast It Live!

There’s nothing like the famed “Chili Bowl”. For nearly 30 years, racers from all over the county have been gathering in Oklahoma in the dead of winter to race for days on end,...

Footage From The 1972 Super Stock Nationals – Nitro, Pro Stock, Super Stock, More!

While we’ve never run into a video featuring old drag racing footage we’ve disliked, some are certainly head and shoulders above the rest. This one is about 16 feet above the rest and it...

Craigslist Find: This Steel Bodied Fiat Is Exactly As It was Built And Raced In 1959 – Amazing Old Drag Machine

We have to thank Johnny Gaudette for the tip on this amazing old Fiat Topolino drag car that he found while goofing off in study hall or something yesterday. The steel bodied cars was built in 1959...

The Uraidla South Australia Car Show: An Aussie Hot Rodding Extravaganza

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) Every year Darryl Daniels sends us photos from Uraidla Australia’s bitchin car show and cruise, and every year it makes us want to come to Australia and bring some...

Bangshift Question Of The Day: The 2015 Z06, Love It Or Hate It?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so (If that is the case, Welcome back!), it’s been pretty difficult to avoid all of the fanfare and hoopla around the new...