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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 5 Rally Racing Action! The Carnage Continues As The Desert Fights Back Harder!

Stage 5 action, highlights, and more are below! Bodies and vehicles are being put to the test and the carnage and emotions are real! This tough and technical stage was toughernastier than many...

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Orlando Speed World Dragway BANS ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES From Competing At The Track, Effective Immediately. What Do You Think?

Citing a long list of concerns, many of them the common ones on most folks minds, Orland Speed World Dragway has officially closed their doors to Electric Vehicles. The ban does not apply to hybrids,...

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How to Chop An All-Original 1932 Ford Tudor: Chopping a True Survivor – This Untouched 1932 Ford Is Becoming A Hot Rod!

Here’s a video showing just what you’ve got to do in order to chop the top on a 1932 Ford Tudor. This is where the cutting begins. There’s no turning back now! The last video showed you...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 4 Rally Racing Action, And A Night In The Desert With No Support, Is Taking It’s Toll!

Stage 4 action, highlights, and more are below! Bodies and vehicles are being put to the test and the carnage and emotions are real! This overnight stage was tougher than many expected. Dakar Rally...

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Unreal Adventure 2025: Unreal Adventure Hits The Pacific Northwest! Episode 7 – Part 1 Razor Sharp LAVA ROCK vs 4x4s: Oregon’s Rim Butte Trail

Unreal Adventure is back and we’ve got Part 6 below! Don’t worry, if you missed the previous videos we’ve got links to those as well.  In the last episode, drivers and crews learned what...

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This Guy Is Asking Strangers to Paint THEIR Car… What Would You Say If Approached By This Guy?

It’s one thing to have a driveway cleaner or mowing guy come to the door and ask if they can mow or pressure wash for free. I mean they do the work right there at your place. But what if...

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BangShift Garage of the Week: Joe Grippo’s Awesome 1970 Mach 1 Mustang

If you have been a BangShift reader for any stretch of time, you recognize the name Joe Grippo. Joe’s a drag race and general gearhead fiend who hits a ton of events every year, with his camera...

Event Gallery: Mud Drags Action From Texas

Last weekend our intrepid Texas photo master, Charles Wickam snuck through a hole in the fence and photographed a pretty bitchin’ looking mud drag race event down near where he lives. Between...

Racing Junk Find: An Ultra Rare and Ultra Fast 1968 Plymouth GTX With Factory Hemi Power

Just yesterday we took our first ride of the year in our father in law’s Plymouth GTX. That particular car sports a 440 and an automatic, unlike this machine we found for sale on Racing Junk....

Car Feature & Video Re-Run: Gary and Pam Beineke’s Serpent SRT-71 Dodge Charger

We featured several cars from the collection of Gary and Pam Beineke in 2009. Gary and Pam have made a name for themselves in the Mopar community by creating so-called, “what if?” cars....

EuroDragster.com to Provide FREE Live Streaming Video From England’s Santa Pod Raceway This Weekend!

Our pal Tog, over at Eurodragster, Europe’s leading source for drag racing news and information, told us that they will be doing a live webcast from historic Santa Pod Raceway in England, this...

BangShift Rolls Out New and Improved Forum Section!

Yeah,yeah we know. Something can’t be both, “new” and “improved”  but it just sounds right. Our new forum section is live and humming along with dedicated...

Quick Peek: A 572ci, 1130hp, Naturally Aspirated Kaase Big Block Ford Powered 2004 Mustang Mach 1

We’ve been spending a fair amount of time at our local neighborhood chassis shop, Tube Chassis Designz lately. Jon and his crew have been replacing the cab floors in Goliath, and recently we...

Historic Drag Video: Footage From the Long Dead Golden Triangle Drag Strip

Golden Triangle Drag Strip, which was located just outside of Beaumont, Texas, has been dead for years. The former air strip is now crossed over by a highway, and serves as the backdrop of a little...

eBay Find: A Blown, Pro Street Lil Red Express Dodge Truck (With Video)

Oh hells yes. Our general fondness for the late 1970s Dodge specialty trucks like the “Lil’ Red Express” had us searching the hallowed halls of eBay for one a short while back. The...

BangShift Project Car: Chad’s Reher Morrison Powered Nova Rebuild Starts Now

BangShift.com has two in-house Chevrolet Nova project cars, and they should be called Yin and Yang. You see, “Yin”, owned by Bob Lohnes, father of my intrepid partner in crime Brian...

BangShift.com to Undergo Major Forum Section Upgrade on Wednesday and Thursday

Over a year ago, we decided that our rapidly growing forum section needed to be upgraded and modified to better suit hardcore BangShift members. The time for that much needed upgrade his finally...

Chadmouth Poll: Road Tripping Your Hot Rod Rules! How many states have you hit?

With rare exception, your hot rod started out as a mode of daily transportation. I know, I know, some of you think they are ONLY there to look at and this realization may be a bit of a shocker for...

Event Coverage: 350 Photos from the 2011 Fabulous Fords Forever Car Show at Knott’s Berry Farm

Living in Southern California means there are car shows each and every week, regardless of the time of year. But when spring rolls around, the car show scene really starts jumping. Last weekend,...

Upcoming Car Show Alert: The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College Motorsports Association Car Show

I don’t run a lot, ok any, car show announcements here on the BangShift blog. I get deluged with them and would never be able to keep up. As in all parts of life though, there are exceptions....