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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 10 Racing Action! The 2nd Half Of Marathon Stage 2 And The Biggest Dunes YET!

Super soft sand and the biggest dunes of the race, all after spending the night in the middle of the desert in tents and working on their own rides, means Stage 10 is going to be a tough one. Speed...

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What Happens When You Take A Couple Of F1 Drivers And Tell Them They Have To Race 100 Years Of Ford Cars?

If you are used to driving modern Formula 1 cars, and someone throws you into a Model T Ford, you are probably scratching your head and wondering who thought to design things so backwards compared to...

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The LIWA Festival 2026 Hillclimb Was Epic As Always! The Rooster Tails, Stunts, And Carnage Start Right Here!

Well, it’s that time of year where the LIWA Hillclimbs are happening. This is some really fun stuff, where folks come from all over to race up an epic dune in Dubai. Located not far from the Liwa...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Surprise Ending Crash Video: Pay Attention to the Guy on the Motorcycle

Motorcycle “stunting” became a semi-big deal here in the US 5-10 years ago. I can remember announcing drag races and the motorcycle stunt riding “crew” would come out during...

Sad Junkyard Find: 1967 LeMans Destroyed in the Infamous California Lexus Car Show Wreck

Back in June, we showed you photos of a car show in California that turned into a horror show when a woman in a Lexus plowed directly into the side of a 1967 LeMans, destroying it and pushing it...

UPDATE: We Made It! A Quick Update on the Successful Completion of Our 500-mile, 6-MPG Road Trip!

By the time you see this, my wife and I should be an hour or two into a seven hour trek to Salmanca, NY to pick up BangShift’s newest piece of project iron, a 1968 C50 Chevy tow truck...

The Parting Shift: Flaming Camaro Edition

Jim Warter has some awesome videos of his Competition Eliminator Camaro on the interwebs. We think the best one is this clip that shows the car catching fire early in the run, but still sprinting to...

Caption This Photo: Have You Ever Driven Your Lawn Tractor to the Liquor Store?

Things have been weird around the area of the eastern BS HQ since hurricane Irene blew through last weekend. There are still towns without power, lots of people who have not showered in days, and...

Vigilante News: Driver Shoots Kid Who Was Throwing Rocks At Cars With Crossbow; Overreaction or Jusitifed?

An unidentified San Diego man is being sought by police after he pulled over and shot a boy who was throwing rocks at cars from a highway overpass with a crossbow. Outside of this news being totally...

eBay Find: An 8-Second AMX That’s AMC From Bumper to Bumper!

At the drag strip on any given weekend, you’ll see a handful of fast cars that appear to be truly unique. Maybe there’s a Duster running into to the 9s with 340 call outs on the rear...

Suspension Tech Videos from Detroit Speed – Camber/Caster Explained and Backspacing

With the explosion in popularity of Pro Touring cars, and more importantly, using Pro Touring cars, learning how to properly set up a suspension is super important. Years ago, a car with big wheels...

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The Romping, Stomping Rolls Royce From England With Drag Week Aspirations!

We were hanging out over at YellowBullet the other day when we stumbled upon a thread about a kick ass Rolls Royce drag car over in England. Even cooler was when the chassis builder revealed that the...

Leaked Test Video:Prototype Enderle Bug Catcher With Holley EFI!

Long established as the industry leader in high performance carburetors, the men and women of Holley are quickly becoming known as EFI ninjas as well. Their easy to use and tune EFI systems have...

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BangShift Project Spotlight: The Unholy Union of a Caddy V6 and a Fiat Spyder

BangShift member Aaron had a problem. He was arguing with his wife about fuel efficiency and how a light car with a modern engine could perform at a high level (50 mpg) and that electric hybrids...

Hot Six Video: An Aussie Ford Falcon With Turbo Straight Six Power Tears Up the Strip

While Aussie gearheads love the V8 engine as much as their American brothers and sisters do, the history of performance cars down under has been marked with some pretty bad ass six cylinder engines....

Killer Documentary Video Alert – Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary

Without question, the Buick Grand National is one of the greatest performance cars ever produced by General Motors. During a rather moribund time in the performance history of the Buick brand, this...

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Update: Epic Project Thread: Building a Twin Engine Dragster From Scratch

We have lots of respect and interest for all the projects that BangShifters have going on currently, but one has really got our tongue hanging out. BangShift member Toymaker is building a twin engine...