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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Hey Hot Shoe! You Can Race At Sears Point Raceway In Your Own Car, And Support Charity!

(Darr Hawthorne/Sonoma Raceway) Do you think you’ve got the driving chops to compete on the same track where likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Briscoe, Tony Kanaan or any of the Andretti’s...

eBay Find: A Bone Stock 1938 Fiat Topolino — We’re Not Sure That We Have Ever Seen One Before!

This could be one of the lowest horsepower eBay finds we have ever showcased here at BangShift but then again when was the last time you saw a freaking stock, steel, complete 1938 Fiat Topolino. We...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Coolest Thing About Modern Automotive Technology?

Over the next weeks and months you’ll see more regular “new car” content here at BangShift as we’ll be getting an array of vehicles to cruise around in and review from...

BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Lohnes’s Favorite Snaps From An Adventurous 2013

(Photos by the author) — So Nutting kicked off a series of “BangShift Photo Highlight Reel” stories that we’re going to run featuring all of our contributors who want to cull...

The Humbler: Five Buddies Built This Cheap Turbo Jeep To Go 12s And Destroy On The Autocross

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – This could be the most BangShifty vehicle we have ever featured before. Built by a group of five smart friends and raced at the Grassroots Motorsports $2,000...

This 1977 Ramcharger Promotional Video Is 70s Truck Porn At Its Best – Wagon Wheels, Knobby Tires, OOGA BOOGA!

For probably the last 10 years I have dreamed about building a late 1970s style 4×4 truck, complete with the chrome nerf bar in the bed, white steel wagon wheels, maybe some Ground Hawg tires,...

Short Shift: A Weekend Road Trip In The 2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Edition Will Make You Want To Kill Your Small SUV

(Welcome to the Short Shift! This is where we’ll do less intensive reviews of new cars and stuff that we get a chance to have some quality time with. Manufacturers will sometimes ask us if we...

This Match Race In Thailand Between A Hot Rod Diesel Truck And A 125cc Scooter Is Nuts!

We have been harping for a long time on the idea that drag racing is not just something that happens between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are strips on every continent aside from those...

BS Photo Highlight Reel: Dave Nutting’s Favorite Shots from 2013 – Trars, NHRA, and More!

With only a few weeks left in 2013, it’s that time of year again where all of the crazies that spend untold hours behind the viewfinder of a camera in order to bring you BangShifters the best...

Watch One Of The Most Horrendous High Speed Drag Race Wrecks We Have Ever Seen

Puerto Rico International Speedway was born from the remains of a US Army base that was constructed in 1940. In 1975 the track opened up as a drag strip and outside of a couple years in the 1980s it...

Craigslist Gold: This Ad For A Cool 1955 Olds Will Crack You Up!

BangShifter John Dent of the Denver, Colorado area sent us the tip on this ad and when he told us that we’d love it he was right! Lots of times funny CL ads are hawking some uninspiring junk...

Stu Hilborn Dead At 96 – Fuel Injection Master Was A Huge Influence On Industry

Stu Hilborn’s fascination with fuel injection and adapting it for use by hot rodders had a massive impact on the racing and rodding scene that continues to be felt today. Hilborn died Monday...

PRI 2013 – Our Last Blast Of People, Parts, and Cars From An Awesome Return To Indy!

(Photos by Chad) — Well, the 2013 PRI show is officially over and everyone (including the Roadkill guys) has finally packed up and vacated the convention center. By all accounts the show...

We’ve Got A New Sponsor! Prolong Super Lubricants Joins BangShift.com. Help Us Welcome Them!

As all you regular readers know, we have really great sponsors here at BangShift.com. Sponsors who’s support allows to to keep bringing you tons of content each and every day, FREE live...