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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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WEIRD WRECK VIDEO: A HONDA MOUNTS A CADDY INSIDE A PARKING GARAGE!

You’ve got to feel bad to the owner of the Caddy that was totaled in this strange Massachusetts crash. It was reported the woman drove her 2011 STS to the office, parked in a garage she never...

BANGSHIFT QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT YOU’VE EVER DONE TO AN ENGINE?

After seeing the photo of that nuked Hemi, it naturally made us think of crap that we have blown up or been directly involved with the destruction of. Back in college when running the VW road racing...

COOL VIDEO: ACTION FROM THE GOODGUYS DEL MAR AUTOCROSS AND CHAD GETTING ATTACKED WITH PIE!

So there I was, digging on this really neat video featuring action from the Goodguys Del Mar autocross and BAM! Right there at the end Chad gets attacked with pie. Is there anything better in the...

SAD NEWS: PONTIAC-OAKLAND CLUB INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT DAVID BENNETT PASSES

Sad news from the world of Pontiacs today as POCI President David Bennett passed away unexpectedly after taking a fall last week. Bennett has been the president of the organization since 2008 and had...

BANGSHIFT EXCLUSIVE: INAUGURAL LINGENFELTER PERFORMANCE NATIONALS TO HAPPEN AT NORWALK IN SEPT 2012!

Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, one of the most fabled and respected high performance car builders in the nation has announced that they will host the Lingenfelter Performance Nationals on...

CHEVY CALLING ALL 8,000 VOLTS BACK TO DEALERS FOR STEEL PLATE INSTALL TO PROTECT BATTERIES

GM has announced that they will have all 8,000 Chevy Volts currently on the road return to dealerships for the installation of a steel plate that will help to prevent a fire like that which occurred...

AWESOME IN-CAR VIDEO: A THREE GEAR WHEELSTAND!

Lisa Caldwell is a California bracket racer who loves her Mopar and loves wheelstands. We’re not talking weenie little one foot jobs either, we’re talking bumper dragging, bang a couple...

MOVE OVER SMALLEST, CRAPPIEST CAR IN THE WORLD – THERE IS A NEW SMALLEST, CRAPPIEST, CAR IN THE WORLD

The Bajaj company of India has introduced a car that is smaller, crappier, slower, and appears to be more unfit for human travel than the current king of those categories, the Tata Nano. Measuring...

BREAKING NEWS: BRANDON BERNSTEIN NAMED DRIVER OF MAV TV/LUCAS OIL DRAGSTER

One of the most prominent rumors floating around the professional drag racing scene over the last couple of weeks had Brandon Bernstein taking the seat in the second Morgan Lucas Racing team car for...

CRAZY VIDEO: AN IN CAR VIEW OF A HUGE HIGHWAY PILE UP – WARNING BAD LANGUAGE!

The guys over at Jalopnik posted this wild video earlier today and we were tipped off to it by a reader. WARNING – THERE ARE MULTIPLE F-WORDS USED AND YOU CAN HEAR THEM CLEARLY – WARNING....

RACING JUNK FIND: A TURN-KEY 1966 MUSTANG ROAD RACER

Hey, if we’re talking about suspensions that make classic American cars carve corners, let’s look at one that has been set up to do just that! This 1966 Mustang has been a competitor and...

GLOBAL WEST SUSPENSION SIGNS ON FOR 2012 WITH BANGSHIFT.COM!

The name Global West needs no introduction, but there may be a few things about them that you didn’t know. Like the fact that they have been in the suspension business for over 30 years. Global...

NOVEL IDEA: FORD TO BEGIN TRANSPORTING NEW CARS TO DEALERS ON TRUCKS IN NEPAL

There are certain things we take for granted in the automotive world. Stuff like, factory fresh new cars being loaded onto trucks and trains for transport to dealerships. As it turns out, this is...

DRAG GALLERY: THE 2011 BYRON DRAGWAY HANGOVER NATIONALS

It is the second day of 2012 and we’re already hitting you with race galleries! Thanks to lunatic BangShift photog Greg Rourke, we have a nice gallery of photos from the 2012 Hangover Nationals...