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Dirt Track Racer Charged With Assault After Ramming Other Car In The Pits: On Track Contact Leads To Race Rage Incident and Ban From Racing.

Every racer and fan knows that in the heat of competition emotions and adrenaline run high. We’ve all seen it, when a couple of drivers bump and bang and then it continues off track. But...

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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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Ancient Tech Video: A WWII-Era Training Film on Hydrovac Truck Brakes

We spent the weekend in two places basically. The first was parked in front of our computer monitoring the live video feed from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas that we broadcast and...

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Event Gallery: Hot Rod Revolution 2010 – Austin, Texas

For the first time in the history of the event The Hot Rod Revolution was held in Austin, Texas this year. After gaining a great reputation in Southern California, event organizers decided to switch...

Baja Ate Bill Caswell’s BMW

The good news is that Bill Caswell actually made it to the Baja 1000 and started the race. The bad news is that the desert jumped up and bit the BMW, cutting the trip far short of the finish line....

2010 Street Car Super Nationals Final Results: Find Out Who Won!

Here’s the place we’ll be posting the most up to date and current results we can get our grubby mitts on from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals held on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor...

Video Replay: Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas

BangShift.com is bringing you the biggest and baddest doorslammer drag racing action live as we broadcast the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals from Las Vegas November 20th and 21st. Lucas Oil, Chris...

URGENT: SEMA needs help to legalize racing in Michigan!

Land Speed Racers, Drag Racers, Autocrossers Unite! This Legislative Alert from SEMA will change your life. SEMA is supporting a Bill in Michigan that will allow any municipality to issue a permit...

Pat Musi heads to Las Vegas hoping to hit the jackpot in Pro Street.

Anyone who has had the pleasure of talking to Pat Musi in person, or who has seen him interviewed on TV knows that he’s one hell of a character and competitor. For this year’s Street Car...

AutoTrader Classics Find: 4-Speed Pro Street 1970 Mustang

Is Pro Street Dead? That’s a question that still gets enthusiasts riled up, but one thing is for sure, people still can’t stop staring at them. You might not be a fan, but we dare you to...

All-Star Lineup set to go head to head in Pro Street Competition at the Street Car Super Nationals in Vegas

An All-Star lineup of Pro Street Competitors is funneling into The Strip at Las Vegas Motorspeedway in preparation for this weekend’s Street Car Super Nationals VI. Names like Renteria, Musi,...

Memphis Motorsports Park to be Auctioned on December 14th

Memphis Motorsports Park, the former NHRA National event drag strip and circle track racing complex is going to the auction block. The track has been closed since 2009 when parent company Dover...

Backdraft: Neil Young’s Converted Electric 1959 Lincoln Blamed for Warehouse Fire

Neil Young made a big deal about having a 1959 Lincoln convertible converted to a hybrid drivetrain. We were so skeeved out by the project we didn’t even report on it. The whole thing reached a...

Hilarious Video: Ken Block Ride Along Turns Adults Into Screaming Eight Year Old Girls

While this video is about a year old, the laughs you’ll get are timeless. Media darling Ken Block is the star of this one as he takes some unsuspecting rally video game players on a real life...

Project Car Spotlight: A Killer Stripper 1967 Chevelle 300

One of the neatest project cars in the BangShift.com universe is the 1967 Chevelle 300 of forum member 67pete300. The car is ultra clean, straight, and nice. We dig it more for what it isn’t...

Austin Coil Resigns From John Force Racing

Austin Coil, the mechanical mastermind behind every single one of John Force’s NHRA National event wins and championships has resigned from the team for unspecified reasons only days after he...