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Leroy Engine Teardown: Did Cleetus Tear Up This HED Beast? Or Is It In Great Shape Still And Ready For More Boost?

Anybody who knows Cleetus, knows that he can tear up just about anything. I can’t even begin to guess the number of engines he’s blown up over the years, but it’s an insane number....

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8×8 and 6×6 Truck Trials Competition: These Bad Ass Rigs Take On All The Mud, Climbs, And Obstacles You Can Throw At Them!

If you have never seen the Tatra truck trials, you are missing out. These 6×6 trucks are truly something special as they have insane suspension, locking diffs, and the ability to ascend and descend...

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Testing TikTok versus Instagram Tool Hacks: Testing a Fractal Vise versus a Dual Battery Behemoth. Are Either Worth Having?

You can imagine that being a tool testing channel on YouTube means digging through tons of comments telling you that you are wrong about the tools you test, or are testing the wrong ones all...

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Finally BIG TURBO POWER! Swapping a 500HP SRT4 Turbo Engine Into A Classic Dodge Caravan Wasn’t As Easy As They Thought!

In the previous installments of the SRT4 powered Caravan build, I said that I wasn’t sure there has ever been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine...

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INDYCAR NTT SERIES: EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix At NASHVILLE SUPER SPEEDWAY

Heavy rain meant the NTT INDYCAR SERIES couldn’t race on Sunday for the 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, but they were at it bright and early on Monday! If you missed the racing...

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More Photos From The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! We’ve Still Got Carlisle All Ford Nationals Photos To Share!

Here’s our fiftfh gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. Joe Grippo was on hand like every year, capturing amazing finds...

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Question Of The Day: What Would The Hot Rodding And Aftermarket World Look Like If The LS-Engine Never Came Out?

Kind of an interesting thought, right? The Pontiac guys are probably still boiling about the Trans Am we posted earlier, the Mustang guys see red when a Fox body has an LS in it and then there are...

Video: A Look At Year One’s Awesome Brewster Green McQ 1973 Trans Am – Twin Turbos, Baer Brakes And A Bunch More!

The guys over at Year One have been cranking out gnarly projects for years and their latest, a 1973 Pontiac Trans Am that’s done as a sort of modern pro touring tribute to the car that John...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Passenger – Iggy Pop (1977)

Iggy Pop is one of rock and roll’s all-time road warriors. The dude has been touring like a mad man for decades and if we were guessing that’s what this tune is about, traveling over the...

HOT ROD MAGAZINE DRAG WEEK 2013 DATES CONFIRMED

Big news kids! Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 will be contested 9/8 -9/13 with a September 14 rain date if necessary. Hot Rod has not released the tracks for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 yet, but...

Watch A Nova Fly Through And Then Off The Course At Last Weekend’s Run To The Coast Four!

Last weekend at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California the American Street Car Series held their Run To The Coast 4 event. This is one of the premier pro touring gatherings in the...

Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?

Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some...

Craigslist Find: A 100% Bitchin LS Swapped 1978 Chevy Bonanza Pickup Truck – SO SO GOOD!

Lately our Craigslist finds have been strange contraption but this is a literally thing of beauty and it is priced right, too. We often joke about “if we had the money” but really, if we...

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Carnage Photos: The Aftermath Of The Incredible Folding Plow Truck Video

Yesterday I stopped by DMC Racing in Halifax, Massachusetts to catch up on some of their bitchin’ projects, new products, and to catch a glimpse of their famously dead yard truck that we dubbed...

Video: Watch A Late Model Aussie Ford Falcon With A Turbocharged Straight Six Make 1,000hp At The Tires – Aeromotive Products On Board!

GM got the memo that the Aussies get some cool RWD cars and that we should get them too, hence the G8 and the upcoming Chevy SS. Ford still has not answered the pained cries of its fans to bring over...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Rev On The Redline – Foreigner (1979)

Here’s a good listen from the late 1970s in the form of the Foreigner tune Rev On The Redline. We’d never heard this one before digging it up completely by accident on YouTube. The song...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Off-Road Race Would You Most Want To Drive In?

I’ve been to Baja, have been a Paris Dakar fan for decades, think WRC drivers are awesome, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing rules, and know that most all of the drivers at any of these, or countless...

Video: What The Hell Is Breslau? Apparently It’s The Most Bad Ass Rally On Earth. And Some “Creative” American’s Are Trying It.

We’d never heard of Breslau either. But now that we know, all we want to do is go race in it like these lucky dudes. The rally starts in Poland, and ends in Germany, after driving through crazy...

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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