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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Video: 20 Minutes Of Awesome… In Car Footage From Bathurst’s Bill E Bad Ass Track… In An Imp!

“What the hell is an Imp?”  That’s what I said, when BangShift Web Nerd Scott Payton sent me this video yesterday. It turns out a Hillman Imp is an 875cc aluminum four cylinder...

Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: But It Was Cheap! Oh Those Famous Last Words…

In the last installment of Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, Rodney brought us to the present with some inspiring words about a driving school that he had recently attended. In this installment of...

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eBay Find: A 1967 Chevy C-10 That’s Really The Bomb!

No we really mean it, the freaking BOMB baby! With a 125-gallon gas tank mounted right behind the cab, a shortened up chassis, and some nice cab patina, this truck could become Sputnik’s cousin...

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Drag Video: Watch A Sleeper Turbo 460 Ford Powered Maverick Thunder Down The Strip – Street Sweeping Perfection!

Our buddy and BS photo contributor Tommy Lee Byrd unknowingly tipped us off to his buddy’s beyond bitchin’ sleeper Maverick the other day. This thing is a pretty basic combo that is still...

Action Gallery: Tug of War, Rock Crawling, And Pit Photos From The 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog

(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Yesterday we showed you killer mega-truck action from the 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow bog and today we’re coming back with a bunch more action...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Gotsta Get Paid – ZZ Top (2012)

(Editor’s note: We highlighted this one last year, but it is stuck in my head so here it is again!) The guys in ZZ Top recently released a new tune called, “I Gotsta Get Paid” and...

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...