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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Race of Kings Is Today! The Biggest And Baddest Machines Of King Of The Hammers Are Racing LIVE Today Right Here!

This is it, the biggest and baddest of the bad attacking the rocks, sand, and dirt at Johnson Valley’s King of the Hammers! This is what all the week leads up to and is what many say is the...

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Sick Week 2026 Video With KSR and Alex Taylor Racing: 370 Miles And Then Rain Was Not How This Stop Was Supposed To Go!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 3 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are...

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Sick Week Day 3 Video: The Fast Cars Got a Surprise on Day 3 of Sick Week – Rain Delays And 40 MPH Winds!

After a long drive that really put everyone’s street manners to the test, Day 3 at Bradenton Motorsports Park was a wet and windy one. I know that lots of folks were excited about Sick Week...

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Sick Week 2026 Video Coverage: Drag, Drive, Repeat’s FULL Day 2 Video Coverage Is Right Here! All The Action!

The Drag, Drive, Repeat crew are in the house and ready to rock and roll through the rest of Sick Week 2026. And while we already shared their Day 2 points special, this video here is one that shows...

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Sick Week Drive Day Video: 370 Street Miles Prove Too Much For Some Racers And Brings More Bad News

370 miles is a real drive, and apparenlty more than a few of these racers could handle during Sick Week 2026. The drive from South Georgia all the way to Bradenton is a real drive and sometimes...

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Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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Hilarious Video: Kid Fails Driving Test Five Times in One Day

Yes, this video is old and has been viewed nearly two million times, but we had to watch it three times just to hear everything because we were laughing so hard. This is a hidden camera deal and the...

New Product: American Powertrain’s Hydramax Full Hydraulic Clutch Conversion For Fox Bodies

If you’ve got a stick shift Fox-bodied Mustang, a couple things are inevitable. The first is that you’ll probably destroy a T5 at some point in your life and the second is that...

Video: A Wacky Chevy Truck Ad From 1972 – Watch the Dummy!

New car television commercials suck universally. There’s the once-every-couple-year gem like Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” Charger ad, but even that one pales in...

Dyno Video: A 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated LSx Rip Saw From The School of Auto Machinists – Awesome

It is weird that we live in an era when you can be cruising YouTube and see so many videos of 1,000-2,000hp turbocharged engines that it gets boring. That’s why we almost skipped over this...

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eBay Find: A Dead Nuts Awesome KITT Replica With Two Issues – The Price and The Location

There’s nary a BangShifter among us who didn’t love them some hot KITT action during the 1980s. Sure, David Hasseelhoff was the headline talent, but it was the Trans-Am he drove that...

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What Would You Build? Big or Bigger? We Keep Drooling Over The RHS LS Aluminum Race Block

We have several engine builds that are about to start here at BangShift, and they will range from 400+ to over 1000 horsepower, but every time we talk engines we can’t seem to get the super...

New Cars: The 2013 Ford Escape – We Drive It…and It Drives Itself!

Recently I was invited by the fine people at Ford to spend a morning checking out, driving, and climbing over the all new 2013 Ford Escape. If you’re wondering what I’d be interested in...

More Day Of The Drags Photos! Max Cackle Sent Us Some Super Sexy Shots You Can’t Miss

We should have dubbed this “Week of the Drags” here at BangShift because we’ve had so much great coverage from the Koninentals Day of the Drags event this week, and we’re not...

Nitro Video: A BangShifter’s Home Built Nitro Harley Fired Up and Sounding PISSED OFF In The Shop!

Chuck Noble’s name is no stranger to the pages of BangShift, Chuck is one of those cool guys with a welder and a plan. He’s been working for a few seasons now on completing a Nitro Harley...

Studebaker, Skoda, Jawa, and More Great Ads From the 1964 NY International Auto Show

The hits just keep on coming from the program we recently got our mitts on dating to the 1964 NY International Auto Show. We’re scanning the interesting old ads out of the book and posting them...

BS Approved Norwegian Video: An Old Ferguson Tractor Fitted With A Jag V12 – Screams Loud! Goes Fast!

We have to tank Norwegian BangShift Arild Guldbrandsen for tipping us off to this video featuring one of his fellow countrymen who took an old Ferguson tractor from (eyeballing it) the 1940s and...

Roadside Find From France! – A Crossover SUV Built Decades Before The Concept Existed

(Editor’s note – One of the neatest things about BangShift, in our eyes anyway is that people from all over the globe tune in each day to see what’s happening here. French reader...

Firebird International Raceway to Cease Operations In April 2013 – All Hope Not Lost Though Track May Reopen With New Management

It appears our grim speculation from late February 2012 is coming true. Word coming out of Arizona and from a well placed source are agreeing that Firebird International Raceway will cease to operate...

WOW!!! Epic BangShift Photo Exclusive: Andy Green And Mike Cook Jr. Run 190 In A Bentley

You ain’t gonna find this anywhere else boys and girls. Mike Cook Jr. texted us this photo yesterday from a private Cook test session at Bonneville and that is none other than Andy Green...