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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Roadtrip Plans Do You Have For This Summer?

As the start of Power Tour approaches, we know that all you Forum Freaks will be out in force at Hot Rod’s annual pilgrimage of horsepower, but what about the rest of you? Are you going to do...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Uneasy Rider ’73” Charlie Daniels – The Audio Version Of The Dukes Or Bandit

There are two “Uneasy Rider” songs, but this is the first and was recorded in 1973. The second is like Part II to this one, but in this one Charlie Daniel’s amazing story telling...

VIDEO: Legend Kent Fuller’s “Last Car” Streamliner Fully Funded! Bonneville Here We Come?

Kent Fuller is a living legend in the world of chassis fabrication. He’s built hundreds of chassis, including those that have taken the legendary drivers of the sport on to championships....

We Drive The 2013 Camaro SS Hot Wheels Special Edition – Full Road Test And Review!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – When the 2013 Hot Wheels Special Edition Camaro SS made the left hand turn into our driveway, my six year old son had eyes the size of pie plates and then literally...

Video: The Colorado Hill Climb Association “Best Of” Video From Temple Canyon

We have always wanted to run a hill climb event because, like Bonneville, there is always such a fun mix of cars. In this video you are going to see it all. Buggies, sprints, sedans, crazy winged...

Gallery: A High Desert Mecca For The Cool And Strange, Where Everything Is For Sale!

We’ve passed this joint so many times on our way to and from Willow Springs or LACR, and it’s always to early or too late to stop and check it out. But last week we had just enough time...

Gallery: The Famous SoCal Bob’s Big Boy Cruise – May 2013

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Our man Scott Liggett kicked his Memorial Day weekend off in style with a visit to the famous Bob’s Big Boy Friday night cruise in Toluca Lake, California. He...

Magnante Speaks: The Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Cheap Project Car Insanity – Part 2

(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante) – 11 Seconds For $2,000 Fast & Cheap! Editors Go Insane! This is the continued story of the Bad Seed Caddy 500 powered Chevy Chevette, one of the more...

Watch A Shelby GT500 Blow A Small Portable Dyno To Smithereens! Carnage Galore!

Holy testicle Tuesday is this wild! We were tipped off to this video by our pal Martin and for good reason as this is 100% wild ass BangShifty carnage! In the video you will see a Shelby GT500...

Would You Drive It?: A Rambler With A Supra Heart. A Transplant Nobody Would See Coming!

This past week we were driving through Palmdale, former home of LACR, and came across Bad Ass Ridez, where lots of cool and crazy cars are for sale. This one is probably the strangest thing we saw on...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Stroker Ace” by The Charlie Daniels Band Plus Movie Footage

Stroker Ace, starring Burt Reynolds was not some serious race piece by a lot, but did predate Days of Thunder by 7 years. And Loni Anderson was in it, and at the time was a hot young newbie to the...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “The Star-Spangled Banner” Boston Bruins Edition

The song itself is the same as always. The way it is sung however defies description. If this one doesn’t choke you up and make you proud to be a human, I don’t know what will. This is a...

Video And More: The Indy Car Brian Would Most Want To Race – The Cummins Diesel #28 From 1952

I’m making this call for Brian, even though he’s never said he actually wanted to drive this thing. But since it was the first and only diesel powered Indy Car to qualify on the pole, and...

Ebay Find: Buy Your Own Running And Driving Indy Car Cheaper Than A GT500 Convertible!

We ain’t kidding. You can even get super bitchin GPS, and killer tunes, with the Indy car and still save $3500 over the cost of a new GT500 Convertible. How about that one?! This 2000 Chevy...

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