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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: Testing And Qualifying Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 2026 BMW M Endurance Challenge, Michelin Pilot Challenge, And Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE 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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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Quick Car Show Gallery: The 2011 McRee Ford Quick Lane Car Show – Dickinson, Texas

The hit parade of car shows from Texas continues! This show was held at a Dickinson, Texas Ford dealer and showcased a majority of Ford products, aside from the few Chevy models organizers had to...

BangShift Reader Garage Spotlight: Tony Field’s Killer 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback

This week, we’re hopping on the train to Moparville with our peek into a Bangshift reader garage. The car is a really menacing 1967 Plymouth Barracuda owned by BangShifter Tony Fields. Wearing...

Racing Junk Find: An Overkill Homebuilt Utility Vehicle

Small utility vehicles, sometimes called “side by sides” have really become popular over the last couple years. Initially coveted by farmers and ranchers, they are now popular as toys and...

BangShift Question of the Day: Can You Identify This Weirdo Homebuilt Junkyard Find?

BangShift member Matt was recently patrolling a junkyard near his abode in Wisconsin. While cruising the yard for parts, he came across a strange, Jeep-like homebuilt creation. Speaking in terms of...

BangShift Tech Video: Size Matters…Exhaust Collector Length Testing Part 1

If you hang out at any racetrack, car show, or dyno shop for long enough, you’ll hear all kinds of stories. Old wives tales about this thing or that thing making big power, cars that guys used...

Event Gallery: The 2011 SSC Spring Car Show

As we’re just starting to entertain ideas with what the heck we should do this summer, one thing became really clear, we need to hit as many shows and cruises in Goliath as is humanly possible....

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise – April 2011

The great American cruise night is alive and well, despite pressures from high fuel prices, shrinking job opportunities, and a general case of the blahs that has been hovering over the USA since the...

Lunatic Fringe Video: Helmet Cam Footage of The World’s Craziest Bike Race

We believe that this is the first (and most likely the last) time that bicycle racing will ever be featured on BangShift but holy smokes, this is crazy. The video shows the entire downhill run of a...

Author Scotty Gosson Interviews BangShift’s Chad Reynolds and Cole Coonce

Automotive author, and all around cool car guy, Scotty Gosson recently asked myself and BangShift Contributor Cole Coonce if he could interview us on his blog page, Scotty Gosson Exposed. The request...

Event Gallery: Shelbys at the Hershey AACA Museum

Just this past weekend, the Hershey Antique Auto Museum hosted their big Shelby show and luckily for BangShift nation, our Pennsylvanian photo contributor, Joe Grippo was on the scene. When...

Big News: BangShift Blog Commenting Now Open to All!

As part of a recently completed site upgrade, readers are now able to comment on BangShift blog items without having to be BangShift.com forum members. We’re sure that there are thousands of...

Fantastic Drag Film: A Kick Ass Ride Along With Pro Mod Racer Danny Rowe

This is one of the coolest drag racing short films we’ve seen in recent memory. It follows Danny Rowe and his team during the Las Vegas NHRA event while they prepare for and make one lap. This...

Car Show Gallery: 500 Photos from the 2011 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender

The traditional hot rodding has once again descended on Las Vegas for the 14th version of the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender, a huge pre-1963 car show, that also celebrates the culture and music...

The Parting Shift: AMC Edition

This video is pretty neat. The guy driving the car is quite skilled in the ways of the five-speed transmission and has no fear of doing a little no lift boogie down the drag strip. HIs technique...

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