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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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Gallery: Cool Cars and Hot Parts at the Long Beach, California Swap Meet – July 2012

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – California correspondent Scott Liggett had one heck of a busy weekend. On Friday night he was at the SoCal Bob’s Big cruise and sent us this gallery. On...

Shop Invasion: DMC Racing – Eddie Kraewic’s Camaro and Alex Vettros’s Mustang Inside!

Last week I put a note on Facebook to my local gearhead homies asking if I could steal a compression tester for a couple days. One of the first guys to answer the call was Dennis MacPherson the owner...

Watch a Massive “Mega Truck” Leap To Incredible Heights and Distances For No Apparent Reason

There are times when asking, “why?” just isn’t necessary. Consider this video one of those times. In it, you’ll see the massive classic Chevy truck of one Daniel Mundy...

Check Out Our Gallery From The Famous Bob’s Big Boy Cruise in SoCal!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Bob’s Big Boy Restaurant in Toluca Lake, California is the home to what has to be the most famous cruise night in America each Friday night. While it is not a...

Question of the Day: What Has Been Your Scariest First Ride In A New Project Vehicle?

Recently, I was having a conversation via e-mail with a BangShifty pal that I’ll name only as Bob J. Bob mentioned that he had a good topic for the BS Question of the Day and I was interested...

Great Read: Check Out All of Comp Performance Group’s New Products For 2012 In One Easy To Read Place!

One of the reasons we’re so proud to have several members of the COMP Performance Group here as part of BangShift is because they’re all companies that innovate and introduce new products...

Top 11 Funny Acronyms for Car Brands

We happened to stumble into a page on CarBuyingTips.com that lists a LOT of funny acronyms for car brands. We’ve all heard Fix Or Repair Daily or Move Over People Are Racing, but that link...

Watch A Gnarly 1972 Corvette Tear Through the Goodguys Autocross – This Car Rules

As you all know, Chad is the announcer for the Goodguys autocrosses that happen all over the country. Last weekend he was in Columbus, Ohio calling the action on a challenging course that had...

The Sound and the Fury: A Day With Corvette Racing at the American LeMans Series

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It was all too fitting to be at Connecticut’s beautiful Lime Rock Park road racing facility on Friday July 6th to see the factory Corvette Racing team practice...

Ken Block’s Gymkhana 5 is LIVE and It Rules Pretty Hard!

The fifth installment of the DC Shoes/Ken Block Gymkhana series went live this morning and it is a great watch. The last one was kind of cheesy in our eyes but Block brought the high heat for this...

Event Gallery: Chryslers at Carlisle 2012 – Huge Gallery of Killer Show Photos!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It was a sweltering hot weekend in Carlisle, PA but the turnout at the yearly Mopar gathering at the Carlisle fairgrounds was no worse for it. Joe Grippo spent a day...

Watch Freiburger and Finnegan Take a Conversion Van and Buick LeSabre Wagon and Thrash Them to Pieces

Freiburger and Finnegan are back in their latest installment of Roadkill and this seems to be the most destructive one yet. According to the duo, the Dodge van and Buick LeSabre in this episode were...

Event Gallery: The 2012 SOVREN Northwest Historics – Killer Vintage Road Course Iron

(Photos by Nathan McGrew) – When our Washington state based photo contributor Nathan McGrew shot us a note saying that he had a load of photos from the 2012 SOVREN Northwest Historics to share,...

Watch Robby Gordon’s New Super Stadium Trucks Tearing Up and Flying Over the Dirt!

When we first heard about Robby Gordon’s plan to revive stadium truck racing and kick it up to a crazier level, we were a little skeptical. His “Super trucks” sounded great on paper...