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Finnegan’s Body-Dropped 1961 Caddy Coupe DeVille Got Custom Seats and More Rollcage Bars!

Finnegan’s Caddy is one of the more talked about projects from the Finnegan’s Garage channel, and is also one of the projects he’s most looking forward to. The plan is for this...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Prologue And Stage 1 Racing Action From The World’s Biggest And Baddest Off-Road Rally

Dakar Rally 2026 is on! The worlds longest, toughest, and most infamous off-road race has started and we couldn’t be more excited! Famous racers and teams, well known for their prowess in the...

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IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2026 Preview Special Video: Road Racing Greatness Going Down!

The 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was a great one, with lots of door to door racing action all over the country. The racing was hot and heavy, but Mercedes was once again able to take...

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2026 New Year’s No Prep Drag Racing at Maple Grove Raceway! Cold Temps Don’t Scare Racers Ready For 2026!

BANGshifter extraordinaire Joe Grippo was at it again this New Year’s Day for Maple Grove Raceway’s annual New Year’s No Prep where they run both frontside and backside no prep...

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Best of 2025: Motorcycles, Quads, and More FAILING To Get To The Top Of The Hillclimb Hill! Crazy Action!

These people are crazy! Motorcycles and quads are two of the things that are the scariest when it comes to hillclimbs. When things go right, which almost never happens, these are brutal runs up the...

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2025 ABAC Fall AET Amateur Truck & Tractor Pull-Tifton GA: Stock Diesel Trucks, Semis & Tractors Pulling Big Weight!

It’s time for some awesome pulling truck action, but this is not what you would normally expect. We’re talking amateurs and their drivers trying not to pitch the drivetrain out of it....

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Funny Wreck Video: A Rally Car Hit and Run

This video combines all the elements we love. There some surprise, some humor, and some one-in-a-million carnage. You’ll see a Toyota Celica coming hauling into a corner way too hot for the...

Caption This Photo: A Home Engineered Battery Repair

We got this photo from our buddy Jay Spinella. Jay’s brother Tom bought a riding lawn tractor from a co-worker and upon the initial start up noticed that the motor was making some bad noises....

Book Review:The Street Machines Idea Book by Sue Elliot

The latest in Motorbooks’ popular “idea book” series, Street Machines: classics, muscle cars, and modern, by Sue Elliot touches all the bases in the current world of street machines...

Memphis Motorsports Park Sold for $1.9M to PBIR Owner

USA Today is reporting that Joe Lubeck, the managing partner at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida purchased the former Memphis Motorsports Park at a public auction on Tuesday. The reported...

BangShift Christmas Wish List Pick of the Day: A Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Equipped Lenco

Back at SEMA, Gear Vendors President and CEO Rick Johnson did the impossible. He made us crave a Lenco transmission even more than before! With the engineering and release of a Gear Vendors...

eBay Find: A Real Yenko ZL-1 That Still Has Never Been Run!

How about a super rare $50,000 aluminum big block Chevy for your project car? That price may not be accurate though. The starting bid on this amazing 1970s era Yenko ZL-1 engine is $50K so if there...

Video: Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel says “We Drive Our Junk!”

  We love the guys over at Ridetech, and the fact that everything they own gets beat on. We’ve always said that their products are Bret Tested which means you can’t possibly be...

Video: Mooneyes Christmas Party Drags and Cacklefest 2010

We already showed you the 400 plus photos that we took at the Mooneyes Christmas Party and Drags, but now we are bringing you the video. We’ve got Factory Experimentals, Gassers, and Top Fuel...

ADRL Releases 2011 Schedule, Adds Two New Venues

The American Drag Racing League has released the schedule for its 2011 tour. The series will visit two places it has not seen before, Maple Grove Raceway in PA and Palm Beach International Raceway...

BangShift Christmas Wish List Pick of the Day: A 2012 Mustang Cobra Jet

With less than two weeks before the fatty in the red suit squeezes down our chimney, we decided to list off some of the stuff we’re asking for this Christmas. We’ll drop one item on you...

Video Bonanza: Weird, Wild, and Cool Russian Off Road Vehicles

We have no idea what the Russian word for redneck is, but some of the stuff show in the videoswe dug up was certainly built by Russian rednecks. Yes, there is a military truck or two in there defying...

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eBay Find: An Awesome 1962 Twin-Engine McCulloch Racing Kart

Racing go-karts are nothing new. Karting has been a popular motorsport for more than 50 years now. While karts are an awesome starting point for youngsters looking to someday advance into the ranks...

Magnuson Products Bought by Private Equity Firm

Magnuson Products, the California based supercharger design and manufacturing firm has been acquired by Pendergast Partners, and Banyan Mezzanine Funds, two private equity firms, according to a press...

Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Party 2010

This weekend was the 2010 Mooneyes Christmas Party which is held every December at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. We have been going to this show for the past couple of years, but were hit with really...