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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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Barnstormin’: These Guys OWN Low-Buck

Dave Nutting was full of questions on the way to the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog last weekend and I was full of hypothetical answers. As many of you loyal readers out there know, I love trucks....

Video: Crazy Saudi Bastards Try To Change A Tire On A Moving SUV. The Key Word Is Try!

The Saudis take car stunts to new levels, and we’ve all seen them driving down highways on two wheels with dudes changing seats, climbing onto running boards, and all kinds of antics. But this...

Have You Checked Out Racing Head Service’s New Website? Do It Today!

When it comes to heads, intake manifolds, and blocks, RHS is on the bleeding edge of the market for small blocks, big blocks, and LS-engines. Their line of aluminum LS blocks has been hailed by many...

Watch A Totally Pissed Off Duramax Diesel Break Itself Off Of The Dyno – Torque MONSTER!

Know what happens when the dudes from Keeter Performance and Nitrous Express get together? They build a pissed off Duramax so bad ass that it literally breaks itself off of a dyno. The capability of...

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Gallery: The 2013 Race and Performance Expo – St. Charles, Illinois

(Photos by Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – All the industry insiders get SEMA , PRI and other shows that are not open to the general public. With the midwest mid-winter deep freeze...

Vermonster 4X4 Snow Bog 2013 Action Gallery – Mega Trucks Action – Jumps, Donuts, Spills!

(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – This is the first of a few galleries we’ll have this week from the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog which went down last weekend in Bradford,...

Texas Wreckage: Out Of Control SUV Crashed Through Two Houses And Lands On Roof

We’ve got to thank Charles Wickam for being an unknowing tipster on this one as we saw the link on his FB page and had to share it. A drunken driver in Texas took what looks to be a Ford Flex...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Race – Charlie Ryan (1955)

Forgive us for being out of order, but on this one we are. Last week we featured the classic tune Hot Rod Lincoln here. That tune is actually an answer song for this one and sung from the...

Things You Don’t See Every Day: We’re Not Sure What To Call It, But The Reverse Wheelies Look Way Too Fun

The title of the video calls this thing a wipkar, and we aren’t sure if it’s British or Redneck fabrication that created it. We say that, because the hunters of the south are very well...

Things You Don’t See Every Day: Video Of A Chevy Truck That Sticks The Landing, But The Russian Judge Still Boned Him

This has to be one of the most brutal truck jump landings since Travis Pastrana thought that backflipping a monster truck would be just like doing it on a motorcyle. Dumb ass. Anyway, despite...

Things You Don’t See Every Day: Video Of Greyhound MCI Bus Crash Testing. The Slow Mo Is Excellent

We dig crash test videos, but never have we seen one of a bus. And not a BangShift style short bus, we’re talking full size Greyhound bus here. There are several camera angles, and plenty of...

Things You Don’t See Every Day: Video Of A Ferrari Enzo Tearing It Up Rally Style

We didn’t know what to think of this when we saw it, but I can tell you there are a few funny pucker moments in this video. Including one time where the driver of the Enzo starts honking at the...

Sunday Daily Tune Up: “Monkey Business” by Skid Row (1991)

Skid Row’s first album, appropriately named “Skid Row”, featured hits like “18 and Life” and “Youth Gone Wild”. And although I loved that 1989 debut album,...

Day Of Freaks: One Of The Coolest Sleeper Wagons Ever – A 1987 K-Car Town And Country With An Entire SRT-4 Drivetrain

If you lived in the 1980s, chances are you rode in or (unfortunately) drove a Chrysler K-car at some point. The “good” thing about the K-car was that they were cheap and sold like free...

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