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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 3 Rally Racing Action From The Insanely Rocky and Dangerous Conditions in Alula

Stage 3 action, highlights, and more are below! This was some carnage filled action! If you missed the previous video, use the link below. Dakar Rally 2026 is on! The worlds longest, toughest, and...

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Making Fenders From Scratch With Cornfield Customs: Metal Shaping Starts With Wood… Fenders Part 1

Shaping metal doesn’t always start with metal. In fact, it rarely does. In fact many metal shaping projects start with wood or paper, as templates, bucks, and forms are required for many metal...

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Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2025 24/7 Livestream: Relive All The Action From Goodwood’s 2025 Edition Of Their Famed Festival of Speed

If you haven’t seen anything from the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the years, you must live under a rock. This is an automotive event of epic proportions, held on an insanely beautiful British...

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Buying a Brand New 1989 Camaro in 2025: Fluffy’s “New” IROC-Z Is Getting Driven On Jay Leno’s Garage

We have some friends with crazy, crazy, crazy low mileage muscle cars and classics, so we know they exist, but it still blows my mind when I see one. In the video below you’ll see Fluffy and...

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Wanna Watch A Dude Engine Swap A Big Ford Wagon In The Snow? Good, Cause Here Is The Video!

I’ve told folks for years that if you pull a small block out of a car, and immediately replace it with another small block, you’ll spend $1000. Hell, it’s 2025 and that number might...

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IHRA Donates $10,000,000 To St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital And Vows Continued Support And Collaboration!

Now this is some special news. While all of IHRA’s recent announcements about new series, new track associations, and new track purchases are great, this one here is truly amazing. IHRA just...

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Wild March Meet Photo Sequence – An Altered Launches Itself Completely Airborne!

One of the wildest runs at the 2013 March Meet came during Sunday eliminations and it involved the altered below. The blown, alcohol burning big block Chevy makes some big power and when all of that...

MARCH MEET 2013 – Video Replay – Click Here To Watch All Of Our 2013 March Meet Video

The race is in the books, but we’ve got the replay! BangShift will be broadcasting the 2013 March Meet, March 7-10th from world famous Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. In what has...

March Meet 2013 – Live News And Updates From The Track And The Pits!

While Chad stands atop our spacious and luxurious broadcast tower on the side of the strip bringing you all the live video you can handle from the 2013 March Meet, I’ll be running around the...

Tune In: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational TV Show Airs Sunday March 10th At 11AM On Speed!

That’s right kids, the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational TV show airs this Sunday at 11AM on SPEED. Pro Touring’s ultimate showdown is held every year the weekend directly following...

Bonus Action Coverage: 100 So Cal Challenge Photos From Jason Wilcox At TCI Engineering

Last weekend’s So Call Challenge season opener was bitchin. Great racing, great people, a great facility, and incredibly tight action. In fact, when James Crosby won it in the Ridetech...

Video: Where They Raced Episode 3: Part 1 The Road Races

We are fully addicted to the “Where They Raced” video series now. Episode 3 is a two parter, and here is Part 1 for you to enjoy. Not only do we enjoy the hell out of each one, but we...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s The Ugliest American Car?

So this one may ruffle a feather or two. We’re interested in hearing your opinion on the ugliest American car of all time. There’s the low hanging fruit of blurting our something like the...

Video: A Tattered Sleeper Chevy Truck Runs DEEP 10s In Texas And Makes Us Weep With Joy

There are videos of the red Chevy farm truck with the cap on the bed pulling wheelies and roaring down the track, blowing flashier and newer cars into the weeds and those are nice, but this thing is...

The Greatest Craigslist Ad Ever – The Entrepreneurial Spirit Lives In Tennessee

Tennessee has recently become a gold mine of Craigslist finds, but this one beats all with a spartan simplicity that has us smiling from ear to ear. The ad is only one line long and we can’t...

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Totally Sweet: An Example Of Jet Hot High Performance Coatings New Custom Graphics Program

We’ve been telling you about the new custom graphics program that Jet Hot High Performance Coatings rolled out during the SEMA show last November and now they’re showing off their mad...

Gallery: SoCal Challenge Action Photos – Pro Touring Cars, Trucks, and Hot Rods Tearing It Up!

(Photos by David Moore) – Last weekend’s SoCal Challenge, held at Adams Motorsports Park in Riverside had both good and bad elements. The good was a great group of killer pro touring cars...

Gallery: A Look At The LeMay Museum By Nate McGrew – Funny Cars, T-Buckets, And More!

(Photos by Nate McGrew) – Tacoma Washington’s LeMay Museum is one of the places we have long had on our bucket list to visit. The place is legendary for the stuff they have inside and...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Amazing Royal Crowns – 1965 GTO (1997)

By the end of the day today Chad and I will be at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California setting up our scaffolding and getting our gear ready for the live broadcast of the 2013 March Meet. I...

AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!! Who Won Ridetech’s ’33 Ford Gets Air Caption Contest? I KNOW I KNOW!

We have a WINNER!!! Fastbak390 made up the winning caption, and will take home a pair of Ridetech Smooth Body shocks, plus 6 Ridetech shirts to share with his buddies. There were tons of great...