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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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REAL STREET CARS BATTLING ON NO PREP!!!! EXTREME STREET AT DOD CHRISTMAS CLASH 6 AT ROCKINGHAM

Dig or Die Christmas Clash 6 is in the books but boy was it fun! In the video below you’ll get to see all the action from the 2025 race thanks to our friends at Spoold Media. Check out all the...

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Billet, Custom Graphics, Tweed And More: This 1993 Buick Roadmaster Is 1990’s Custom Greatness And Can Be Yours!

The 1990’s were awesome for the custom car and truck scene because horsepower was just starting to come back and everyone was into making big visual changes to their rides in order to keep them...

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Goodwood Revival 2025 24/7 Livestream: Relive All The Action From Goodwood’s 2025 Edition Of Their Famed Revival

Goodwood puts on some really cool events, and there Revival and Festival of Speed are two of the most famous. They recently showed this year’s Festival of Speed livestream replay, and now...

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Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #3 – Mack Midliner

Here’s the third video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Mack Midliner that would make a cool hauler! Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission for a few months as...

Fiberglass How-To: Using Foam And Glass To Form A Custom Dash For A 1967 C10 Pickup. Shaping And Glassing!

Here is the third video in this cool custom dash series. I happened upon this video series the other day and knew I had to share it. After recently posting a video of Brent at Halfass Kustoms doing a...

Are Cheap Drill Bits Just Junk? Who Makes The Best Drill Bit Set? $11 vs $200 Drill Bit Sets? Let’s Settle This!

Drill bits are one of those things that people either seem to spend no money on or all the money. I know I’m guilty of buying cheap drill bits and then when I buy that one specialty size, in a...

The Land Rocket That Never Was: Could Donald Campbell’s Bluebird Mach 1.1 Have Broken The Sound Barrier?

There was nothing easy about being a record setter in the 1960s and Donald Campbell’s life proved that. Driven by a near  obsession to not only match his famous father Malcom but to exceed him...

Hear The Legend Speak: This Awesome 1980s Profile Of Art Arfons Contains A Great Interview of The Man Himself

There are few people that I idolize in the cannon of hot rodding history but Art Arfons is one of them. I have written lots about him, I have made a long, long episode of my Dork-O-Motive podcast...

Awesome Video: The History of Super Modifieds Is Incredible And Flat Out Awesome

We love Super Modifieds around here and we have posted saying that for years. You can catch them racing on the regular in the Northeastern quadrant of the country during normal racing years and they...

Historic Drag Racing Video: NY National Drag Strip Action Circa 1969 – 4 Wide, Jungle Jim and More!

In the realm of old school drag racing videos this footage from the summer of ’69 at the now dead NY National Drag Strip on Long Island is in the top 1%. The video itself is crisp and clear...

New Years No Prep Photos From Maple Grove: Our Final No Prep Racing Gallery From Pennsylvania

We’ve got our fifth, and final, batch of photos from the New Year’s No-Prep at The Grove, and want to thank Joe Grippo as always. If you missed any of the previous photos, we’ve got a link...

Finnegan Is Building A 3,000 Horsepower LS Engine! Exclusive Billet Engine Build For a Mystery Project Car!

Finnegan is back at it, this time with another engine build that is something extreme and exciting. I mean who wouldn’t be excited by a billet aluminum LS engine, let alone one that is going to...

Chemical Dipping a Rare 1969-1/2 Plymouth Roadrunner A12. Check Out How Dipping Works!

If you have ever done a full build on a car that required stripping the paint in order to prep for replacement panels, or just a complete paint and body restoration, then you know that there are few...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A One-Off Custom Bed For This Pickup.

Now that the chassis has been shortened up to get the proportions right, it’s time for Brent to start focusing on the bed. He wants something completely different than stock, so he’s...

DIRT CHEAP, EBAY, AMAZON, SLOPPY LS CAM TEST…SLOPPY STAGE 1 VS STAGE 1.5 VS STAGE 2 VS STAGE 3

It’s time for another LS Camshaft Test with Richard Holdener. No matter how many he tests, folks always want to see back to back to back testing of camshafts on one engine and that is exactly...

AA/FUEL DRAGSTER – TULSA NITRO NATIONALS 2023. FULL COVERAGE FROM THE NHRA HOT ROD HERITAGE SERIES

Les just sent us the link to his new AA/Fuel Dragster video from Tulsa Raceway Park, and we knew we had to share it right away. If you loved all our March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion...

1320Video Is In Japan For Tokyo Auto Salon And The Japanese Police SHUT DOWN Their Car Meet at Daikoku PA!

Kyle and Matt and the crew are in Japan for the Tokyo Auto Salon and have been running around hitting up as many fun car things as possible. One of them is Daikoku PA, one of the must attend car-meet...