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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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Someone Finally Made an RX-7 Cool…By Shoving a Jet Engine Up Its Backside (w/Video)

Mazda recently announced that they were finally putting a bullet into their rotary engine program, marking the beginning of the end for the weirdo little engines. We know that they can be made to run...

RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!

When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously...

BangShift Sponsors Kick Ass in Columbus Goodguys Autocross Competition With Video

While Chad was running his mouth at the worlds hottest Goodguys autocross this past weekend in Columbus Ohio, John Jackson from Not Stock Photography was taking killer photos and lent us a few to...

Tune In: Live Streaming Sportsman Drag Racing This Weekend – The World Footbrake Challenge!

This weekend the World Footbrake Challenge goes down at Bristol, Tennessee. Thunder Valley will have a field of nearly 400 of the deadliest, most cold blooded footbrake drag racers in the world and...

Awesome Video: An In-Depth Look at RideTech and “Why Shocks Matter”

This video from RideTech is pretty damned cool for a number of reasons. The first is that it is filmed in a killer documentary style that we really like, the second is that it is chock full of really...

eBay Find: A Bitchin’ 1949 Mack Type 45 Fire Truck That Looks Good Enough to Road Trip Home (Slowly)

Starting in the war years of the mid-1940s and right through the 1950s, if you lived in a small to mid-sized town in America you thought of a Mack Type 45 when someone mentioned the words “fire...

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Video: Depth of Speed “High Mileage”… John Jackson of Not Stock Photography

Not only does John Jackson of Not Stock Photography take killer photos of some of the baddest hot rods, customs, and cruisers around, but he also drives one himself. And while some folks would argue...

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Epic eBay Find: Wild Willie Borsch’s Fake Arm From His Revell’s Wild Man Funny Car!

This is freaking awesome. Up for sale on eBay right now is the fake arm that Wild Willie Borsch had mounted into the window of his “Revell’s Wild Man” Funny Car in the early 1970s....

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Tune In: Watch Live Nostalgia Drag Racing From Santa Pod This weekend!

Our brothers from another, uhhh, continent at EuroDragster.com will be live broadcasting live (and FREE!) from Santa Pod this weekend during the Dragstalgia event. This is the second year of the...

Check Out Our Huge Gallery From the 2012 ALMS New England Grand Prix – Exotics and Prototypes in Action!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Our main function for being at the 2012 ALMS New England Grand Prix, contested at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut last week was to observe, hang out with, and report on...

Great Video: The Profile of A Totally Unrestored and Running 1970 USAC Open Wheel Car

Holley has been cranking out some truly kick ass video content lately. We’ve been keeping up over the last couple of weeks and this one may be their best yet. In this piece, you’ll hear...

eBay Find: An All Aluminum 215ci Buick V8 With A 4-71 Blower and Ingelese Carbs!

Just the other day, I was having a conversation with a friend regarding the willingness we both had over buying a complete engine from eBay. At the end, both of us were thinking that we didn’t...

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Question of the Day: What Cars Have Been Unfairly Labeled As Massive Piles Of Junk By History?

Automotive history is dotted with lots of punching bags. Some of them seem fairly obvious. The German Trabant for example is a car that people openly mock around the world and for good reason. The...

Incredible Photos: Mercedes Skewered By 90ft of Guardrail in Denmark, 22 Year Old Driver Not Killed!

BangShift reader and forum member Arild Guldbrandsen lives in Norway and he posted up one of the wildest links we have seen in some time on the BS forums the other day. This link shows photos taken...