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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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Chute Fail Video: Jeff Lutz Stops His 200mph Shoebox With No Parachutes

Jeff Lutz’s 1957 Chevy is completely bad ass and gave ol’ Larry Larson a big run for his money during  Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week last year. On one of Jeff’s best runs, a 7.11...

Friday Update: Team BangShift Puts the Wraps on the Road Tour Express

The first Road Tour Express of 2011 is underway and BangShift has fielded a team of crack operatives to kick some ass, win some prizes, and drive the hell out of their junk. The Road Tour Express is...

Site of the Week: No One Rides For Free.com

NoOneRidesForFree.com bills itself as “Boogie Vans and One Night Stands”. It is a blog that celebrates the free and wild culture culture of “vanning” in the 1970s. For decades...

Alan Johnson Develops Bad Ass Pro Mod Hemi Engine, Incredible Head Flow Numbers

Most people know Alan Johnson as one of the greatest nitro drag racing crew chiefs of all time. Many however, do not know that Johnson is one of the leading developers and suppliers of top level drag...

Baldwin-Motion is Back: 2011 427ci and 454ci Camaros to Hit the Market

Every BangShifter worth his big block knows the names of Joel Rosen, and Baldwin-Motion. Rosen built and tuned the burliest, most well thought out super cars of the 1960s and early 1970s until he was...

AFCO introduces cool new products for 2011

BangShift.com has spent the last couple days hanging out with the finest companies in the automotive aftermarket at SEMA’s Motorsports Parts Manufacturer’s Council and have been checking...

Crane Cams is back and bigger and better than ever before.

After a dramatic 2009 that found all their assets for sale on the auction block, Crane Cams rose from the ashes like a Phoenix and spent 2010 dusting themselves off and getting back to work. The...

Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip

This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers...

eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt

One of the most infamous car and engine combinations in the history of drag racing was the deadly match of a Chrysler Hemi and the tiny Dodge Colt in the early 1970s. Prompted by the ass kicking laid...

New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle

Dick Maskin and the rest of the Dart team are back at it with even more great SHP combos for both Ford and Chevy fans. With 427 cubic inches of small block power available for the Blue Oval and...

Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution

When the Comp Performance Group brought back the Racing Head Service RHS brand, the aftermarket, and Car Junkies world wide, were excited to hear that a brand name associated with killer performance...

The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina

We realize that this is completely random, but we simply had to post this photo. The picture turned up in our forum section when a discussion thread made a left hand turn into van-ville. The fact...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Northeast Motorsports Expo – Philadelphia, PA

Indoor car shows and expos keep northern BangShifters from going completely insane during the icy clutches of winter. Recently, Joe Grippo hit the 2011 Motorsports Show held annually in Philadelphia,...

BangShift Question of the Day: Is This Honda Cool?

Honest question, is this Honda cool? The little Civic has a turbo and intercooler hanging off the front of it, has big drag slicks fitted to the front end and it shoots fire like a mother. Kevin...