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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: Testing And Qualifying Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 2026 BMW M Endurance Challenge, Michelin Pilot Challenge, And Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Video: Hot Rod Homecoming Video From The “Where They Raced” Video Crew

Harry and the gang from “Where They Raced” keep on putting up great videos explaining the history of auto racing in Southern California. Specifically Los Angeles in fact. The videos are...

MORE: HISTORIC

Barnstormin’: Dreaming Big, Scheming Bigger, and Why I Am Hell Bent On Trying To Race A ChumpTruck In 2014

So this is going to come as a shock to no one, but I am completely and utterly consumed with the idea of racing a truck in the 2014 ChumpTruck series. I am not looking for more than one race and my...

$200 Hauler Project Update: Will Bolt Ons From MSD, Spectre, and E3 Get Us More Power Than Buford!

In our never ending quest for putting together a nice, comfortable, and capable tow rig, without spending piles of cash, and without having a new car payment, we continue to thrash on the $200 Hauler...

The 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming – Race Cars! Fuel Altereds, Sprint Cars, Stock Cars

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we showed you the cool stuff outside of the buildings at the Pomona Fairplex at the 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming car show. Today we’re taking you inside...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Classic Or Modern? Which Is Your Favorite Kind Of Wheel?

Almost a year ago Brian wrote a BangShift Question of the Day that asked “What’s The Coolest Wheel Ever?”. The results are what most of us would expect, and include all the...

Massive Shop Tour Gallery: The Hot Rod Barn – Morris, Illinois – Muscle Car Restorations, Drag Builds, Killer Shop!

(By Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Just west of Morris, Il. on Interstate 80 is what looks like an old Stuckeys. And with good reason, it was an old Stuckeys. Instead of Pecan Log Rolls and...

Incredible Video: Watch The Grave Digger Monster Truck Leap and Land Directly On The Turtled Maximum Destruction Truck and Then Jump Over It!

Mock me if you wish, but damn do I love me some modern monster truck action. This video is proof of the capability that these amazing machines have. The trucks can fly and articulate like desert...

Amazing eBay Find: A Real Deal 1965 Fiberglass Trends Cheetah With Its Original Chassis! Drag Cheetah Greatness!

Our love for the short lived and even shorter produced Bill Thomas Cheetah race car is pretty well known. It was a bit of a back door project that Chevrolet was helping to fund in order to come up...

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Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Black Sunshine – Rob Zombie (1993)

One of the most requested songs we have had from readers to be featured in our BangShift Daily Tune Up items is Rob Zombie’s 1993 song Black Sunshine. If you are familiar with Rob Zombie you...

Epic News: The ChumpTruck 2014 Series Announced – Budget Big Rig Road Racing!!! Greatest Idea EVER!

I have never, in my 33-years of living, been more excited about anything automotive related than I am at the knowledge that there will be a budget big rig road racing series coming to the USA in...

Caption This Photo: Scott Liggett Tries To Get A Sneak Peek At Grumpy Jenkins’ Secrets!

BangShift contributor Scott Liggett crushed his assignment of covering the 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming show at the Pomona Fairplex last weekend. We’ll be sharing photos and mini-features on cars...

Rocket Racing Wheels Expands Igniter Offerings – New Sizes and Popular Bolt Pattern Options

The fine dudes and dudettes at Rocket Racing Wheels have announced that they are expanding their popular Igniter series of wheels by offering 16″ diameter versions of the popular design and...

Hot Rod Homecoming 2013 – Muscle Cars, Race Cars, Gassers, Vans, Rods!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We’ve never been more jealous of ace LA BangShift contributor than we are right now after reviewing all of his great photos from the 2013 Hot Rod Homecoming...