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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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eBay Find: A Rare Cross-Ram Hemi Rat Roaster Intake Manifold With Carbs

Yeah, yeah, we know. There are more modern, efficient, better working intake manifolds for the classic Chrysler Hemi than the old Edelbrock “Rat Roaster” but few have the reputation and...

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...