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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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eBay Find: A Mint 1975 GMC Motorhome – Is The New BangShift Mobile Command Center – It Has An Air Raid Siren!

Chad and I have long joked that we need a BangShift mobile command center. We need a vehicle capable of serving as our live broadcast station, living quarters when Daphne and Kerri get pissed at us...

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eBay Find: A 1966 Charger Body From The Dawn Of The Funny Car Era – Vintage Perfection

Today’s modern funny cars are cool with their 300+mph speeds, 8,000hp engines, and big league sponsorships. Nostaliga nitro funny cars incorporate the feel of the old days with some new tech...

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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Ancient Behemoth And Today’s Weirdo Component

I went full on weirdo with yesterday’s engine because I was hoping to cause the BS readership to throw up a goose egg in the guess department, but no, you went ahead and nailed it. The engine...

Photos: Action and Bits From The Pits At The NMCA Drag Week Shootout In Houston

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was an Unlimited Drag Week reunion of sorts last weekend in Houston, Texas as the NMCA invited a load of the heaviest hitters that competed at Drag Week 2012 to...

Vintage Coolness: Another Collection Of Ads From The 1964 New York International Auto Show

It has been a while since we delved into our treasure trove of ads from the program of the 1964 New York International Auto Show. We’re jumping back in with both feet today with a neat...

Gallery: The SCTA El Mirage November Meet – LSR Action In The California Dirt!

(Photos by Zane McNary) – The SCTA held their final meet of the season at the famed El Mirage dry lake last weekend and as is normally the case, the action was fast and dusty. BangShift’s...

Help Hurricane Sandy Victims, and Yourself, With 40% Off Superwinch Promotion!

We just got word from the guys and gals at Superwinch that they have started a special promotion that is going to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy get back on their feet again while also saving...

FREE LIVE VIDEO: The 5-Day Bracket Championships LIVE NOW From Palm Beach International Raceway

Mark Walter is once again on site bring you guys great drag racing, and this weekend it is the PBIR 5-Day Bracket Championships. One of the most revered races in the bracket racing world, it is also...

Epic Video: Les Mayhew’s 2012 California Hot Rod Reunion Video Right Here

While we are standing on the scaffolding bringing you all the live nostalgia drag racing coverage you have come to love here at BangShift.com, Les Mayhew is on the ground shooting his ass off getting...

Buy Now: Summit Racing Equipment Is Taking Orders For MSD Atomic LS EFI System

When MSD Announced the Atomic LS EFI System at SEMA a couple weeks ago, we told you it was going to be a big deal. And it is. Summit Racing Equipment knows it’s a big deal too, and has them up...

More Carnage Video: Watch A 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang Pull A Huge Wheelie and Then Crash Hard At Cecil County

We were tipped off to this video by BangShift reader Jack Stetson that shows a 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang factory drag car crashing hard at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland. The car launches hard and...

Carnage Video: Watch Outlaw 10.5 Racer Mike Kimmis Suffer A Huge Wreck and Explosion At Ozark Raceway Park

There’s lots of cool classes that make up the “small tire” drag racing world but for our bucks, the insanity that happens in the Outlaw 10.5 class totally takes the cake. With twin...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Inline Answer and the Toughest Challenge Yet!

Yersterday’s inline six was correctly guessed as a GM 4200 series engine. The 4.2L mill was installed in a variety of cars and trucks like the Trailblazer, Envoy, Buick Rainier and other GM...

Bonus Junkyard Gallery: Even More Coolness from Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, NJ

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday, we brought you the first of two galleries from within the confines of Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, NJ. Joe Grippo snuck off into the wilderness...