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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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Watch FREE Live Streaming Video of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Here!

We are LIVe from Bowling Green for the NHRA Holley National Hot Rod Reunion. Click on the arrow in the middle of the player window below and that’s all there is to it. We’ll be live at...

Quick Gallery: 2011 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion Thursday Night Cruise

We had our faces buried in the camera all day for the live streaming broadcast of the 2011 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, so we are way light on photos. We busted out our camera at the Thursday...

Project FatCad Update 5: The Sawzall Come Out and Bites Into the 2011 CTS-V Wagon!

    FatCad Installment 1 FatCad Installment 2 FatCad Installment 3 FatCad Installment 4   It’s been less than 2 weeks, and the weight is dropping faster than I allowed myself...

Car Show Gallery: The Automobile Driving Museum Charity Car Show – El Segundo, California

Saturday morning was foggy and drizzling when we sent our man Scott to El Segundo with his camera. He was tasked to cover the 4th Annual Car People For Education Benefit Car Show at the Automobile...

eBay Find: A Blown Hemi Powered ’57 Chevy Gasser

We’re getting excited to see the old school gassers at the 2011 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, so excited in fact, we decided to go day dreaming on eBay to find a nose bleedin’,...

Massive Gallery: The Carlisle All Ford Nationals

Joe Grippo is a lot of things to us here at BangShift but first and foremost, he’s a Ford man. That being said, it should come as no surprise that he nearly wore the shutter button off of his...

Tire Thrash: We Hammer BMWs and Test Out Bridgestone’s Latest Performance Tire Offerings

Recently, the fine folks at Bridgestone Tires invited us to attend one of their “Drive and Learn” events. These events are primarily designed to educate sales people and distributors...

Legit Classic Gassers to Race Heads-Up at This Weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!

As if you needed another reason to attend this weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, here it is. There will be a special eighth mile, heads-up eliminator...

Cool Video: Ride Along in a Blown, 44ci Crosley Powered Dragster

We can say with a degree of certainty that this is the only 18-second drag car that will ever be featured in the BangShift blog. Ironically, it is that 18 second time slip that makes it so damned...

Event Gallery: The Tri-Cities Drag-Way Reunion – Endicott, NY

We’re officially in the era of the drag strip reunion. If you are a “glass half empty” person you see it as being sad because it reminds us of just how many strips have closed down....

Video: Tom and Jack Lohnes Pull out a Tree With Goliath!

After Dad Brian scored them a killer new Go Kart, the Lohnes boys, Tom and Jack, decided they needed more room on the Lohnes family homestead to create their own racetrack. Since Brian had also told...

Cruise Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise – Halifax, MA – June 2011

It was a fun night when we loaded the kids up and headed south from BangShift East Coast HQ in Goliath to the Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise Night last week. It was especially cool when we were...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Vicksburg, Michigan Old Car Festival

We’ve been taking you all over the country with our car show coverage today, and we’re not stopping! This time we head to Vicksburg, Michigan for the 2011 Vicksburg Old Car Festival, a...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise – June 2011

With the temperatures sky rocketing in Texas at this time of the year, car show season hits a bit of a lull from the frenetic pace of the early Spring. Luckily, cruise night season is still going...