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Bug Jam Festival 2026 Livestream: Epic Weather For One Of The Coolest Summer Events At Santa Pod In England! Plenty of Action!

I love VWs, and have always wanted one. So when I saw that Santa Pod was streaming their Bug Jam Festival again this year I figured I’d share it with all of you guys as well. Whether you like a...

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Drag Racing Livestream: Division 1 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series from Numidia Dragway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest on the east coast and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. Check it...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! The Fuel Tank Turned Out To Be Too Big, So It’s Getting Cut Up And Made Right!

Sometimes the best layed plans just don’t work out quite right. Take the fuel tank in this FJ40 for example. Shannon built this thing big, but just a bit too big. Unfortunately it...

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Dune Session Video: Wheelies, Jumps, and Pure Adrenaline From Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan!

We love playing in the sand dunes. For those folks who don’t live near them, you are missing out. And where the sand dunes are located dictates when people go play in them. In Michigan, where...

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Dylan McCool is SELLING IT ALL! Okay, Well Some Of It Anyway. So Buy His Junk And Make It Yours!

It seems like a lot of YouTubers have been on a purging mission recently, getting rid of projects and cars that no longer inspire them or are being use. Freiburger has been doing it for months, and...

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Unreal Adventure 2026 Dirty Dozen Announced! Who is your favorite for UA2026? Check Out Who Got In!

We talk about Unreal Adventure a lot because it’s just such a cool event and is run by such cool people. We’ve said for the past few years how much we’d love to go on this trip and...

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Missouri Man Finds Stolen Pro Street Camaro For Sale in Utah 16 Years Later!

Imagine that your first car is a 1969 Camaro that you eventually build into a bitchin’ Pro Street ride. Now imagine that very car being stolen right out from under you, probably disappearing...

Great Video: A 20-Minute Drag Week Retrospective from Hot Rod

This is the 2011 Drag Week video that tops them all. Put together by the guys over at Hot Rod it is a near 20-minute recap of the week, narrated by our old pal Freiburger. The video has some great...

eBay Find: A Never Run, Military-Spec Chrysler 361 – Still in the Nerf Crate!

Are we weird for getting all excited over seeing a 1960s era, never run Chrysler wedge motor in a nerf crate? Of course we are, but you knew that already. We got tipped off to this eBay auction which...

Wild Video: A Monster Lane Changing Wheelstand From a Small Tire Mustang

Now this is some wheels up action! This Mustang dead hooks at the hit of the throttle and it is full sky, full time from there on out. The guy driving this car has some serious stones because he...

Great Read: Bill Caswell Goes Mini-Cup Stock Car Racing

Last we checked in with our rally pal Bill Caswell, he was hamming it up over at the Goodwood Festival in England. Since then he’s been keeping busy working on some other projects which we have...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Approach to Selling an Old Car?

I was cruising down the road yesterday minding my own business when I spotted this cool old Buick Riviera for sale on the side of the road. The gigantic FOR SALE slathered across the windshield...

Racing Junk Find: An Awesome Early 1980s Off Shore Racing Boat With 3,000hp!

It has been said that a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That statement can be not more truthful than when applied to off shore racing boats, the mammoth boats that super rich...

Drag Gallery: The 2011 Pennsylvania Dutch Classic – Maple Grove, PA

For 40 years, NHRA Division One sportsman racers have descended on Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania to close out the season at the Pennsylvania Dutch Classic. This year was no exception....

Cool Site: Thunder V12 – Where the GMC 702 V12 is King!

One of the more amazing things to us is how many small companies pop up to fill niches in the automotive world. Thunder V12 is a small company that builds high performance versions of the old 702ci...

Show Gallery: The Burnout Houston 2011

The Burnout Houston 2011 was a rockin’ good time as BangShift Texas photo correspondent Charles Wickam found out. The show bills itself as being about, “Beer, Babes, Brats, Badass Rods,...

Cool Story: Washington State Bus Mechanic Wins Lottery – Buys Back Camaro Project

It is always nice to find a pearl of good in the sewer pipe of bad news that flows freely these days. A regular Joe bus mechanic named William Sitdham from Olympia, Washington recently won more than...

MSD Rolls Out a New Logo and a New Approach to the Aftermarket

MSD has announced that they’ve tweaked their familiar logo and more importantly that they are taking a fresh approach to the aftermarket in general, becoming a company that handles all aspects...

El Boom Video: Test and Tune Night in Vegas Goes Very Wrong For a Mustang Owner

The interesting thing about nitrous explosions is that their severity doesn’t necessarily line up with the seriousness of the machine involved. Basically, the street car guy is just as likely...

eBay Find: A Crazy Rare and Stupid Expenside 1937 Mack Jr Truck

While on family vacation last week, I was trolling eBay during some quiet time. My truck loving self search up Mack with the hopes of finding a stupid deal on an old Model B or something. Instead I...