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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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The Parting Shift: Three Minutes of Cruising a Jeffco Planetary Transmission on the Street

We’ve made it clear in the past that we find few things more awesome than street driven cars with planetary transmissions like Lencos and Jeffcos. We’d be lying if we knew the intricate...

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BangShift Question of the Day: Are you doing any car stuff this weekend?

While the weather has sucked for large portions of the country over the last couple weeks, things appear to be making a gradual turn for the better. It won’t be chamber of commerce weather, but...

Bill Caswell Video: Hauling Ass and Grabbing Air During the 2011 WRC Mexico

During our recent dinner with Bill Caswell, BangShift’s adopted bucks down rally hero, Bill told us the tales of his adventure to the 2011 WRC (World Rally Championship) Mexico. It was his...

Massive Junkyard Auction in Nebraska Coming in July!

We were recently tipped off to a huge by large auction happening in Maxwell, Nebraska during the mid-July time frame. The entire contents of a junkyard are being sold off piece by piece. The cars and...

Caption this Photo: Chad’s Deluxe Accommodations During the 48hr Camaro Build

The 48 Hour Camaro build was a huge success this week. Between the live broadcast, the collaboration from virtually every heavy hitter in the performance aftermarket, and the parking lot burnouts...

Racing Junk Find: A Restored Fuelie 1957 Chevy

Back in 1957, if you were a forward thinking BangShifter, you would have headed into your local Chevy dealer and thrown cash down for one of the hot Chevrolets with fuel injection. Since we’re...

BangShift Exclusive: Guidelines Established for Restored/Recreated Drag Cars

With the explosion in popularity of nostalgia and historic drag racing over the last two decades, many historic drag racing cars have been restored, recreated, or been honored with so-called...

Wreckage Video: The Hardest Wreck in the History of Autocrossing

This video proves two things. The first is that the Nissan VQ engine that powers virtually everything in their product line up, in one form or another, is the most awful sounding engine in the world....

Project FatCad: The Pleasure (and mostly) Pain of Acquiring Project FatCad

Click here to read the introduction of Project FatCad    I decided I wanted a new Cadillac because I met all of their requirements. I just turned 50. Hey, that’s young by Cadillac...

Great App: New MSD App for iPhones Provides Wiring Diagrams and Tech Guide to Your Phone!

MSD has come up with an awesome new app for iPhone users that places all of the company’s wiring diagrams and the Tech Guide book right in the palm of your hand. Stuck in the shop and stumped...

Spectre 341 Challenge Registration Nearly Full – Register Now!!

The Spectre 341 Challenge is one of the most challenging, thrilling, and daring open road races in the world. Set in Virginia City, NV on Nevada Highway 341, the course is a 5.2-mile, 22 turn ribbon...

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...