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Merry Christmas From BANGshift! We Hope You Enjoy Christmas With Your Loved Ones And That Santa Is Good To All Of You!

Every year the message is pretty similar, and on behalf of the Reynolds family, along with our amazing BangShift.com sponsors, I’d like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry...

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CHRISTMAS TREES GOING 6 SECONDS IN THE 1/4?!?!? MORE CHRISTMAS TREE DRAGS FROM BRADENTON!!!!

Spoold Media was on hand at the Christmas Tree Drags at Bradenton, and we’ve got their video right here. We’ve already shared the video from 1320Video and KSR, but this one is different...

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MOONEYES Christmas Party 2025 Video: Classic Cars, Hot Rods & Models Together Celebrating 75 Years Of Mooneyes!

The Mooneyes Christmas Party is always one of our favorite events of the year, and I really do miss it now that I live in Texas. It was one of those annual shows that we really looked forward to each...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: DETROIT DIESEL Dually Squarebody! Will It Make It 600 Miles Home or Leave Him Stranded?

This thing is cool! Well it looks cool anyway, even though I’m not a big fan of the 6.2 liter diesel under the hood. And before all you 6.2 and 6.5 fans start bitching, know that I grew up with...

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Stop Telling Me How To Drive! They Might Be Good At Instructions, But What Happens When a Rally Co-Driver Takes the Wheel?

Have you ever been driving down the road and had a backseat or passenger seat driver telling you how you should be doing it better? Or telling you straight up that you are doing it wrong? Worse yet...

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Is This Even Savable? THE FRAME REPAIR MASTER TACKLES THIS INCREDIBLY COMPLEX MERCEDES TRUCK FRAME REPAIR

I don’t know that most frame shops would even want to repair this thing, or that the condition of the wrecked truck would be worth saving. But that’s what is happening in this video here...

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Tune In: The 48 Hour Camaro Build is LIVE on BangShift.com NOW!

BangShift.com, Route2Media, and the crew from Ridetech, Lingenfelter, Holley, Gearvendors, Comp Cams, and more, will be LIVE! Monday May 16th to start the build of the 48 Hour Camaro. We will be...

Car Show Gallery: The Frontier Days Car Show – Alvin, Texas

The 35th annual Frontier Days celebration in Alvin, Texas was a smashing success with chamber of commerce weather. Our own Charles Wickam was on the scene to cover the car show end of the event and...

Dumbass in Georgia Stabs Man Over Ford VS Chevy Argument

The immortal Roger Alan Wade is credited with one of the best titled songs of all time with, “If you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve gotta be tough”. Two morons in Georgia are the...

Roadside Find: One of the Rarest Dodges Ever!

Not all that many people know that for three years in the mid-1970s Dodge was in the big rig business with their Bighorn trucks. They got out of it pretty quickly because they sold virtually none of...

Pay Up Sucka: Honeywell to Pay Borg-Warner $32.5-million over Turbo Patent Lawsuit

While turbochargers have been a part of the automotive landscape for decades, they are becoming integral parts of new engines and designs from OEMs across the globe. No longer is the turbo just a...

Larry Larson Enters Nova in Comp Eliminator at NHRA Topeka National Event, Will Drive Car to and From Track!!

Just when you thought that Larry Larson could not elevate himself to another plane of coolness, this happens. In what has to be a first in the modern era of drag racing, Larry Larson has entered his...

BangShift Reader Garage of the Week: A 1972 Plymouth ‘Cuda With Lots of Family History

BangShift member BKBridges has set up several garages in the newly formed up section of BS.com. Most of the cars have a common theme that we’ll get to in a minute, but this one in particular...

1971 Foyt Coyote Indy 500 Racer to Hit the Auction Block This Weekend

With the 2011 Indy 500 rapidly approaching, we got word that one of the neat old cars that competed for glory decades ago is set to be auctioned this weekend. The car in question is a 1971 Foyt...

Get Caught Up With the 48-Hour Camaro Here With Video Updates!

If you need to get yourself caught up on how the 48 Hour Camaro project has progressed to this point, we’ve got you covered! Throughout the day, along with the live streaming broadcast of the...

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eBay Find: An Awesome and Fully Functional 1958 Mack B-61 Crane Truck

After spending the weekend driving our Goliath truck around with the kids and admiring some other old pieces of iron we saw, we were cruising eBay and stumbled across the ultimate prize for any lover...

Explosion Video: The Most Violent Nitrous Explosion We Have Ever Seen

No hyperbole, no bullshit, this is the craziest nitrous explosion we have ever seen. The footage comes from somewhere over in Europe, possibly the Nordic region. It shows a Top Sportsman/Pro Mod...

Horrendous Fire Video: A Nitrous Pro Mod Burns to the Ground in a Worst Case Scenario

The tip box was hot this weekend and we mean literally hot. The previous video, featuring the nitrous explosion from across the pond was followed by this pair of videos showing one of the most...

Site of the Week: Source of all AMC Matador Knowledge

One of the best things about the Internet is that it gives freaks a place to gather and celebrate the objects of their freakosity, then lets us outsiders drop by to share in the scene. As borderline...

Mini-Feature: Barb Hamilton’s 1937 Willys Gasser

Barb Hamilton is a woman who truly blazed a trail for females in drag racing. As much credit as Shirley Muldowney gets for “running with the boys” and becoming the first female to...