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Vice Grip Garage Annual Father Son Trip! ATTEMPTING 3,000 Miles In A VINTAGE BIG BLOCK RV! Cooking, Fishing, Museums and more!

A couple of weeks ago we shared the video of Derek picking up this machine and getting it ready to drive 850 miles home. Seemed like a pretty stout trip in an unknown RV, but that was nothing when...

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Freiburger Takes Us On A DRIVING TOUR of HISTORIC HOT ROD SPOTS Around Los Angeles! Too Many To Count!

There are tons of historic spots around Southern California that impacted hot rodding, racing, and custom car building over the last 80 years or so, but no matter how many you can think of there are...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Featured Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s gallery #3 from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed gallery #1, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by Mike...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Turbo LS Chevy Sleeper Van For Sale – Runs 12s and Looks Bone Stock

BangShift contributing photographer Bob Chiluk tipped us off to the fact that the legendary Las Vegas based sleeper van is for sale. This is the full sized Chevy van you have seen eating up...

Watch Jim Oddy Fire Up the Blown 392 Hemi in The Actual Austin Gasser He Raced More Than 40 Years Ago!

Some videos aren’t cool because of trick camera work, killer sound, or zooty stuff like that. Take this one for example. It shows drag racing legend Jim Oddy firing up the very Austin gasser he...

Caption This Photo: What is Larry Larson Saying to Steve Matusek?

(Photo by Charles Wickam) – When I was at the ADRL event in Bristol, Tennessee I ran into Larry Larson in the pits and staging lanes a couple of times of the weekend. Larry was there working...

Seattle Man Not Named Freiburger Steals Camaro SS From Hertz Hits 150mph During Police Chase

You always have to worry about internet videos spawning copy cats, so when we read about a man in the Seattle, Washington area who stole a brand new Camaro SS from a Hertz office and later hit 150mph...

Racing Junk Find: A Complete, Turn Key, Modern Front Motor Top Fuel Car

While trolling around RacingJunk.com and oogling stuff we cannot afford and have no business owning even if we could, we stumbled upon an ad that has a complete front engine top fuel dragster, of the...

Question of the Day: What is the Worst Automotive Innovation Ever?

We live in an age where cars are packed with some incredible technology. From anti-lock brakes to active cruise control that will automatically slow your car with traffic, to cars that can literally...

Top 11 Best Ever Race Car Paint Schemes

Modern race car paint jobs can’t hold a candle to the classic, care-free stylings of generations ago. There were classy, subtle schemes, and gaudy, loud, attention-grabbing hues slathered down...

Project Buford T Justice Will Be Saved For About A 100 Bucks With a 15 Year Old Transmission

By now you know that I blew up my Project Buford T Justice Caprice on the dyno at Performance Auto and Dyno in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Monday. After the car spit the driveshaft at us, broke the...

Watch Helmet Cam Video of a Guy Crashing His Quad Into a Cow at Full Tilt!

We have seen lots of wacky helmet cam videos over the years here at BangShift but this one is on another level entirely. The video shows a quad rider running full speed down a dirt road in God knows...

Drag Racing Pioneer Jim Nelson is Dead

For the third time in less than two weeks we are sad to report the passing of another legend in the world of drag racing. Jim Nelson, one of the pioneering chassis men in the sport, a member of the...

2012 Canfield Swap Meet: BS Approved Cars and Stuff Gallery

(Photos by John Milk) – BangShifter John Milk hit the 2012 Canfield Swap Meet in Canfield, Ohio with his camera, too much cash, and all the good intentions in the world to take photos, buy a...

Good News: Two Drag Strips Are Officially Undead – Irwindale and Capitol Raceway Up and Running Again

Here’s a quick follow up note on two race tracks that were in serious limbo over the past couple of months. Happily we can tell you that both the drag strip at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale,...

eBay Find: The Nicest 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro on Earth

The 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro marks the final effort from muscle car legend Don Yenko to take a normal factory high performance car and elevate it to “super car” levels. Starting with...

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Epic Fail: Man Shopping For New Car After Crashing in Police Chase Crashes Car in Dealer Showroom

This  is certainly one of those “fact is stranger than fiction” stories. Ender Durgut was involved in a high speed chase back in March which saw him drive over spike strips and continue...