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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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Bangshift Mini-Feature Re-Run: Bigfoot

Every BangShifter out there has one vehicle that strikes at the heart of his gearhead self. For us, that vehicle is Bigfoot 1. Unbeknown to us, Bigfoot 1 and a 35th anniversary Bigfoot truck were on...

Racing Junk Find: The Only Blown Alky Jeep Cherokee on Earth

When an awesome idea gets fed to a professional that can execute it, great things happen. This Jeep is without a doubt the coolest Jeep we have ever seen. We know about the drag race Wranglers and...

Caption This Photo: So the Brakes Were Making This Odd Noise…

We’ve all been there. A friend, sometimes a girl, asks you to survey some issue they are having with their car. You do the good thing and take a look (remember, the road to Hell is paved with...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Cruise – Kemah, Texas – April 2011

To round off today’s bonanza of galleries, we’ll take you back to Texas, thanks to Charles Wickam and his well used camera. This time we’re dropping by the Kemah Cruise,...

Quick Gallery: Vintage Tractors on Display in Alabama

Here’s a quick little gallery of about 30 photos submitted by BangShift member Charles Schryver from the Baldwin County Strawberry Festival, held in Loxley, Alabama. A local antique tractor...

Drag Race Gallery: BangShifters at Lebanon Valley Dragway’s 2011 Opening Day

The official sign that Spring has arrived in the Northeast happens when racing starts, well that weekend finally arrived and a few BangShift forum members decided to celebrate by getting together and...

Show Gallery: The 2011 Bayshore Fine Rides Car Show – Baytown, Texas

The Bayshore Fine Rides Car Club certainly knows how to throw a party! For 23 years they have been holding a big car show in Baytown, Texas that draws everything from lifted mud boggers to killer...

Book Review: Pontiac – The Performance Years by Martyn Schorr

We recently finished reading Pontiac: The Performance Years by Martyn Schorr. This book is a collection of stories and articles that highlight the golden age of Poncho performance, roughly 1959-1974....

UPDATE: A DIY Classic Car Restoration From India

When we received an e-mail with the link we’re sharing below about a guy restoring a classic car in India, we were very leery of what we’d find. Rather than seeing lots of bizarre fixes,...

Update Video: The Radial Engine MR2 is Running Like a Top

Last Sunday we showed you video of a Toyota MR2 that has been re-powered with an old radial airplane engine. Go ahead and re-read that if you need to. That first video showed the engine running, but...

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Bitchin’ Bill Thomas Nova To be Sold at Mecum in May

One of the cars that will be sold at the Mecum Auction in Indy this May is a super cool 1965 Chevy Nova, built by racing legend Bill Thomas. The car is being listed as a Funny Car and that may...

Video: More Bad Ass Amphibious Military Truck Action, Bonus Splash Down!

Yesterday’s video of the old Army truck driving around the bottom of a lake was pretty great. We were then tipped off to some far more modern military truck action, this time featuring a...

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Ridetech Street Challenge Kit: So easy a girl can do it! Check out the install here.

Now ladies, don’t get mad at us, at least we didn’t say “So easy a chick can do it!” We’re really impressed with Michelle Harvey and here Camaro install that is up on...

Bangshift Mini-Feature: The Piss’d Off Pete 1960 Peterbilt

One of the coolest projects to hit the airwaves and webwaves over the last couple of years is Randy Grubb’s creation known as the Pissed Off Pete. This is a 1960 Peterbilt truck modified in the...