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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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BangShift Question Of The Day: Are Baja Race Cars Cooler Than Baja Race Trucks?

We love Baja race stuff around here, and are planning on some cool prerunner upgrades to the $200 Hauler, which has had us looking at a bunch of prerunners and Baja race trucks for inspiration....

Watch An Idiot Filming A Moron Wreck His Car – Stupidity Hurts

Sure, that title is pretty harsh but let’s be honest. If you are driving down the highway and see a truck purposely driving with two wheels up on the center divider barriers and you decide to...

This Pro Street 1961 409 Impala Could Be Yours, If The Price Is Right.

Every once in a while we find something on Craigslist that surprises us. When doing a search for Pro Street stuff on Craigslist we found this clean old school 1961 Impala Pro Streeter and then we got...

Top 11 Current automotive trends that have jumped the shark

The video posted yesterday of a stretched tire exploding on a dyno got me thinking about all of the fads that develop in automotive culture. Whether or not we want to admit it, there’s a fair...

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Extreme Downhill Barbie Jeep Racing Is Highly Entertaining To Watch But Painful To Do (Video)

Have you always wondered what would happen if grown men decided to race plastic Barbie Jeeps down a steep incline in the woods? We’ve spent hours on end pondering the outcome of such a...

Dragway 42 Is Hosting The Legendary Hangover Nationals On New Year’s Day – A Drag Race With A Great Twist! BE THERE!

For 15 years Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio has been hosting the “Hangover Nationals” on New Year’s day. This race goes off whether there is rain, sun, or snow! Nothing stops the...

These Images From A 1930s Era Boston Buick Dealership Are Breathtaking –

1932 wasn’t exactly a banner year in the USA. While it was the year that the iconic ’32 Ford came out, it was also the year when the Great Depression reached its bleak crescendo (along...

Failure Video: Why Running “Stretched” Tires On Your Car Is A Recipe For Disaster

Of the current popular automotive trends among “the kids”, weirdo camber and stretched tires are two that we don’t understand and outside of looking weird have some pretty bad...

Meaty Deal! Buy A Transmission Kit Until 12/23 From American Powertrain And They’re Giving You An Entire Smoked Ham!

With the recent huge success of their bacon incentive sale, American Powertrain is ramping it up a notch for Christmas. That’s right, kids. If you buy a transmission kit from American...

Craigslist Find: We Don’t Know What A “Vipette” Is But We Do Know That It Makes Us Sad

Marcus Buckley found this creation on Craisglist and immediately thought that he needed to send it to us for the site. That pretty much makes us question every decision we have ever made in life, but...

Check Out This Awesome 1920’s Dodge Promo Video Of A Sedan Mud Bogging In An Oil Field

This video rules. Seriously rules! Watch as this 1920’s Dodge Brothers Sedan mud bogs like a mad man through all kinds of killer terrain that would leave your new Dodge Ram stranded axle deep...

Crazy video: Watch This Insane Snowblower Eat A Geo Metro

Buying tools for the house is a slippery slope when you are a gearhead. Don’t believe me? I’ll change your mind with a few short statements, followed by your expected response. – If you...

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Personality Test: Which One Of These 1970s Factory Converted 4×4 Vans Do You Want? Chevy Vs Mopar!

The four wheel drive van is an interesting beast. There are companies that have literally made their existence out of converting them. Firms like Quigley have been doing 4×4 van conversions for...

Bitchin’ Video: A Look Back At The Glory Days Of Modified Eliminator! Famous Racers Talk And Small Blocks Scream!

Bobby Bennett at CompetitionPlus.com is a BangShifty kind of guy. How do we know? Because he’s as hung up on the awesome past  of drag racing as we are and he makes killer videos that...