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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Atlanta Dragway Returns As 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series World Finals Location! The International Hot Rod Association Acquires Atlanta Dragway in Banks County, Georgia.

That’s right folks, after announcing that they have taken over Virginia Motorsports Park most recently, and tons of other iconic tracks around the country in the last 6 months, the IHRA...

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World Rally Championship FULL ONBOARD Video From WRC Rally Sweden Stage 17 with Katsuta and Johnston

I miss that you don’t get to watch every World Rally Championship event from start to finish like we used to get back in the day, unless you pay for a subscription of some kind. The coverage...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Next Gearhead Movie That Needs To Be Made?

With the death of Hal Needham and the recent successes of the Snake and Mongoose and Rush films, we’re wondering what the next gearhead movie should be. There are lots of men and women out...

Charlotte Goodguys Fall 2013 – The Cool Photos and Killer Cars YOU Want To See!

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – There was one heck of a shindig down in Charlotte last weekend and BangShift contributor Bob Chiluk was there. The Charlotte Auto Fair fall edition is one of the...

Hal Needham Dead At 82 – Legendary Stunt Man And Director of Films Like Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, Cannonball Run, Etc

Stuntman, director, racer, and wiley son of a bitch Hal Needham is dead. Needham passed away on October 26th at the age of 82 years old. While that may not be a record breaking number, it is fair to...

The ZL1 vs Z71 Battle Continues: Here is Chad’s Day 3 Update After Saturday’s Autocross

Somehow Brian thinks the Z71 vs ZL1 Battle is a tie so far. I don’t get it, but I’ll play along since he tends to be kind fragile. Don’t get me wrong, I want to break him. Break him...

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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...