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Massive 1200+hp Turbo-Diesel powered Race TRUCKS attack the Goodwood Festival of Speed!

It’s amazing what you can do with a really big truck. After highlighting one of the world’s fastest mini trucks in a video today, now we are highlighting absolutely huge trucks, doing...

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Is This 1,400 horsepower Toyota, The Fastest Land Speed Racing Mini-Truck In The World? Larry Chen Check Out This Bonneville Speed Week Machine!

I’ve loved this truck since I first saw it on the salt at Bonneville a few years ago, and it continues to impress me every time I see it. It’s not just that it is fast, because it’s...

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SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS GO FOR THE $20K+ AGAIN!!!! LOSER’S BRACKET AT DIG OR DIE DIG DAYS 7 AT THE ROCK

If you like Dig or Die coverage as much as we do, then check out this race video from our friends at Spoold Media. Keep in mind, this race is worth more than $20,000 and it’s the losers bracket...

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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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Watch The Real Chrisman’s Comet Make A Run At Oxford Plains Dragway – Blown Ford Cammer On NITRO!

One of the coolest cars in drag racing history not only still exists, it still thunders just like it did when it blew crowds back into their seats at the 1964 NHRA Nationals with a half track...

The Smallest Project We’ve Ever Covered: Here’s The Mini-Max – A Scale Model With A Twist

Readers of BangShift know the name Mike Casella from his awesome work at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mike is the guy who makes stuff from scratch and saves unobtanium parts...

Watch A 1936 Chevy Pickup With A Turbocharged Chevy 292 Inline Six Make Nearly 900-HP At The Tire And Run 160-MPH At The Drags!

This is one hot little ’36! The classic Chevy pickup you see below is powered by one of the strongest Chevy inline six engines we’ve ever heard of. It is built to the hilt with a lot of...

Gallery: A Peek Inside DMC Racing At Paul Major’s Corvette And Tim Meagher’s Mustang

Yesterday we showed you the awesome twin turbo Oldsmobile that the guys at DMC are updating and improving for its owner so he can really lay the lumber to it this Spring. That certainly isn’t...

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...