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Blasphemi explodes the Engine, Jarrod sends intake into orbit, Struggles from Day 5 of Sick Week 2026

We’ve shared lots of video from Sick Week 2026, including several from Alex Taylor, Kevin Smith and the KSR crew, and also the Drag, Drive, Repeat gang. So what’s in store in this new...

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Check Out All These Drag Cars And Other Old School Treasure at the WORLD OF WHEELS 2026 SHOW In Chattanooga

I remember when the World of Wheels show came to San Jose as a kid. Dad and I would always make the trip to go check out the cars and trucks in the show. They were always some of the best indoor car...

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DIY Paint and Body: Testing an Electric Spray Gun Built for Automotive Paint – Is It Actually Any Good?

For the past couple of years there have been a ton of folks on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and more that have been showing off their automotive painting success with cheap handheld airless paint...

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Harrell Engine And Dyno Video: Mike Finnegan’s Rubber Ducky engine teardown! Plus, we’ll get some valvetrain tech too!

Finnegan’s Rubber Ducky, the cool yellow 1967 Pontiac Firebird that he picked up a few years ago, has been a fun ride that has taken him on Drag and Drive events, done great Christmas tree...

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Buick LeSabruh! Will Derek Be Able To Drive This Thing 700 Miles Home? He TRADED For This LS SWAPPED Buick LeSabre Sight Unseen!

Derek is back at it, this time with a Buick LeSabre, a car he’s actually bought and modified several times. Not this one in particular, but one that looked almost exactly the same. This one has...

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Sheet Metal Cut and Butt: Check Out These Simple Techniques, Tips, And Tricks For Do It Yourself Rust Repair.

If you aren’t a regular watcher of metal shaping and sheet metal fabrication videos, you might not know that one of the common sheet metal replacement techniques is called the cut and butt...

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Brian and Chad’s ZL1 VS Z71 Battle Moves Into Day Two – They Have Fought To A Draw So Far!

 So if you missed the memo, Chad was handed the keys to a 2014 Camaro ZL1 late last week to test out and review. At about the same time, Lohnes was handed the keys to a 2014 Chevy Silverado Z71...

Follow Our Facebook ZL1 Camaro vs Z71 Silverado Battle This Weekend! We Kick It Off On PowerShift LIVE Tonight At 6pm.

That’s right folks, I’ve got a new ZL1 Camaro and Brian has got a new Z71 Silverado that GM gave us for a week of testing. The fact that they gave us two really cool new vehicles is...

Video: We’ve Got A New ZL1 Camaro For A Week: Dragstrips, Autocross, Smack Talk, Oh My!

That’s right folks, yesterday at 4pm the guys from GM dropped of a brand new Red Hot 2014 ZL1 Camaro for me to beat on, errr test out, for a week. Well at 5:30 we made out first pass down the...

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The Parting Shift: In-Car Video of Ken Montgomery’s 1965 Hemi Belvedere, The Famous Triple Nickle

The late Ken Montgomery bought a Hemi Belvedere in 1965 and raced the hell out of it for decades. Ken named the car the 555, known better as the “Triple Nickle” over the years and it has...

Project Update: The Wally’s World GTO Is Going To The OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational!

To say that Wally and the rest of the build team are excited about getting an invitation to the Optima Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational would be the understatement of the year! After a...

Mini-Feature: A ’69 Dodge Sweptline With Cummins Power, 50 Gears, A Tucked Dually Rear And More!

So there we were, cruising the pits at Famoso, surrounded by hundreds of truly awesome race cars and I spotted it. The IT was the 1969 Dodge Sweptline truck you will see below. My eye immediately...

ADRL Houston 2013 – Our Last Blast Of Great Action Photos!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last blast of photos from the lens of Charles Wickam who was camped out at the ADRL event in Houston, Texas last weekend to capture the action for...

Genius Parody Video: Watch Ken “Box” Gymkhana A Razor Crazy Cart Through A Warehouse And Office

Normally parody videos are hit or miss, especially when they are done by a company promoting a product but we have to hand it to the men and women at Razor because they hit a home run with this video...

Moron Stock Car Racer Manages To Get DUI DURING A Race – This Guy Deserves Everything He Gets

Mark our words. By the end of this story you’re going to want to punch a guy named Tommy Lathan right in the yam bag for doing one of the worst things we have heard of anyone doing at a race...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Hit The Road, Do Burnouts, Save A Custom Mercury, Overheat, Make A Father and Son’s Day

So this is the feel good Roadkill of the fall. Freiburger and Finnegan hit the highway in this episode of the show to get a custom Mercury up and running so they can deliver it to its new owner. They...

Watch A Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Truck Over Shoot A Jump And Endo Like A Mother!

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is pretty much chock full of non-stop action. There are trucks flying all over the place, dirt getting slung off of rear tires, passing, and aggressive moves to...

A Couple Of Guys From An Awful CNBC Show Make The Worst Video About Nitrous Ever – Seriously

Apparently there is a show on CNBC called “Car Chasers”. We’ve never seen it, but we were tipped off to a video starring the two lead guys from the show that appeared on...

Sweden’s Tierp Arena Drag Strip Files For Bankruptcy – One Of Europe’s Premier Drag Plants In Limbo

It has been kind of a crazy year for strips opening, closing, coming back from the dead, being offered up for sale, etc. We heard some not so good news from a Swedish BangShift reader yesterday when...

Question of the Day: Laid Out Or Nose High? What is Your Stance Preference?

We’re going to force you into a corner today with this question. Following yesterday’s gasser inquire, we’re making you choose between the two most polar opposite stances in the hot...