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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Get Your Stop On: Baer Brakes New Catalog Makes Stopping Your Hot Rod Even Easier

Baer Brakes may be new to the BangShift family of sponsors but they are arguably the biggest name in performance braking and their newest catalog certainly reinforces why. If you thought that Baer...

eBay Find: A Super Clean and Totally Awesome 1974 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty

As the domestic high performance car was all but dead on the operating table after a gas crisis and draconian legislation in the early 1970s, one small glimmer of light managed to escape the clutches...

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Evil Golf Cart Video: Sick N Twisted Designs Drag Race Electric Golf Cart

Saturday night we went to Irwindale for a little test and tune session with our boys Bill Fowler and Scott Clark, and not only were we impressed with Bill’s 1000hp PUMP GAS, NATURALLY...

Question of the Day: Now We’ve Seen It All! Rent An Excavator For Fun? Would You Do It?

I’m pretty sure this counts as a “Now I’ve seen everything” moment. I know that a lot of cool stuff comes up as Groupons, but this one takes the cake on weird. I guess the...

The Top 11: Greatest Wheelstanders

When Chad and I settled on making a list of the top 11 Wheelstanders we knew it was an impossible task and that we’d get roasted for leaving off some hella cool cars. We had a list of nearly 30...

Watch A Massive Buick Wheelstand Result In A Dead Buick (Driver OK) — Two Videos!

BangShift reader Nick Lingua sent us a tip on this video from last weekend’s “Night of Fire” at Cedar Falls Raceway in Iowa. The event is a totally bitchin’ match race that...

Caption this Photo: How the Hell Does This Happen…Seriously…How in the Hell Does This Happen?

Right off the bat we have to admit that we don’t know who shot this photo, where it was taken, or the scene that led up to this big rig having it’s front end torn off. We’ve never...

American Powertrain Hydramax Clutch Systems Now Available for Mustangs

American Powertrain’s new Hydramax Clutch System is bad assed, and is now available for first-gen Ford Mustangs. This system, which is available for GM and Mopar vehicles as well, provides a...

Question of the Day: Are LS Engines Chevrolet, General Motors, or Generic?

The longstanding battle between Ford, Chevy, Mopar,, or any other manufacturer you are getting pissed at me for not including, will always be there. And people will always freak out when you put a...

Ebay Find: A 1971 C50 Chevy Tow Truck That Will Give Brian Lumber and His Wife a Headache

Brian is out of town announcing yet another race at New England Dragway this weekend so in honor of his absence I’m going to run a really cool Ebay find that he would die to own. Not that he...

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Video: Big Rig Crashes into Cool Old Building: Building Fights Back When Truck Is Removed!

Chris Stinehelfer sent us the tip on this crazy truck vs. building fiasco. The truck gave it to the building for sure, but the brick building made sure to get in a few licks before they hauled the...

Epic Burnout Video: Brasher Burnout Nationals… Held In His Backyard… Literally

Whoever the hell Mick Brasher is, he rules all. Every time Brian leaves town I have to run some Australian burnout video, and this one rules more than any other burnout video ever. The best part is...

VOTE NOW!!! Help The D&Z Customs Built AMX Of “Hollywood” Jimi Day Win Car Craft Pro Builders Award

Randy Johnson, owner/builder at D&Z Customs, and AMXess car owner “Hollywood” Jimi Day are looking for some BangShift support, and we are going to give it to them. They have been...

Question of the Day: What is The Most Dangerous Thing You Have Ever Driven?

With the pulsejet powered motorcycle earlier in the day and the multiple nitro Harley wrecks in the last blog item we’re thinking today is danger day. We’ve all nursed a new project home,...