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California Man Reunited with Stolen 1969 Camaro Bought Brand New By His Vietnam Veteran Father!

We hear about car thefts all the time, and have been victims ourselves, so when we saw this story on the national news this morning we knew we had to share it. In 1969, after returning home from the...

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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway Featured Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 2nd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check the out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Southeast Gassers Association 2026: First Drag Race of The Year from Shadyside Dragway

Here’s a livestream replay from the Southeast Gassers Association’s First Race of 2026 at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina. If you like traditional nose high gassers that still row the gears,...

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Check out Classic Trucks’ Ridetech Air Ride Install

The guys over at Classic Trucks spend time on the dyno building and testing engines, believe hot rods and trucks should be driven, and are fun guys to hang out with. In the September issue of Classic...

Video: Super Sexy Goodguys Columbus Show Coverage

The Goodguys PPG Nationals show in Columbus is the biggest of the year. The Street Rod and Street Machine of the Year awards are presented, every area of town is like a car show each night, and it...

Chadmouth: Substitutes. aka Tofurkey, Light Beer, LS Engines?

This Chadmouth is a short one, but I just got done watching Anthony Bordain’s No Reservations show on TV where, while eating a fried pork chop gracefully placed between two halves of a soft...

The True Story Behind The Fake Racetrack in Chrysler’s Latest TV Commercial

Dodge’s latest television commercial is a spot plugging their Durango SUV. Rather than showing the vehicle backing over a flower bed or slowly ambling up a crushed stone driveway, the spot...

Mega Show Gallery: The 2011 Turning Back Time Car Show – Sycamore, Illinois

We decided to pull the pin on this photo grenade last today. Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke knocked this baby out of the park! The dudes attended the 2011 Turning Back Time Car Show in Sycamore,...

AMC Gallery: The Kenosha Homecoming 2011

BangShift member and Wisconsinite Mikes343Sharpstick is a dude who loves his own bitchin’ AMC Javelin and has recently picked up an old IMSA racer AMC project as well. When he let us know that...

Cool Gallery: Mega Moto Demo Day at the Simeone Museum – Unobtanium in Action

The Simeone Museum is an incredible place when you consider that virtually everything in it belongs to one dude, Dr. Fred Simeone. Not one to just allow everything to sit and collect dust, Simeone...

Drag Gallery: The Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion – Englishtown, NJ

Joe Grippo braved incredibly oppressive heat to bring us an awesome gallery of nearly 200 photos from the Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion at Raceway Park in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. The...

Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, MA

We finally managed to get ourselves, and Goliath down to the massive, 2,000 car, bi-weekly cruise event at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts last week. With our two boys strapped...

BangShift Exclusive A 13-Original Mile 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 Emerges

We were recently tipped off to what may be the lowest mileage Third-Gen Firebird on Earth by our pal Berserko Bob. The car was bought brand new with the intention of being turned into an NHRA Super...

The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!

Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...

Killer Video: Mike Ryan Wheels His Freightliner Up Mount Washington!

Jason Lewis has done it again. The first time we saw Lewis do his thing with Mike Ryan we fell in love with the video, called “Size Matters”. It is Ken Block meets a hot rod Freightliner...

Vote for Kyle Tucker! BFG “Select the Seats” Baja 1000 Voting Starts Now

Detroit Speed’s Kyle Tucker is once again in the hunt for a seat in the famed Baja 1000 and thanks to BFG you can help him get there. Voting has started on BFG’s Facebook page, and there...

Feedback: Take the MSD Survey and Tell ’em How They’re Doing!

Proud BangShift sponsor MSD Ignition is a company that spends lots of time interacting with their customers. From scouring the country with their massive tech trailer at NHRA events, truck pulls, and...