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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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Gallery: Wild Drag Strip Photos from Saturday at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

On Saturday morning there were hundreds of hopeful drag racers in the pits awaiting their shot a glory when eliminations rolled around at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling...

Gallery: Header Flames at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Cacklefest

The highlight of every NHRA Hot Rod Reunion is the Saturday night Cacklefest. A living history tour of significant and cool drag race iron, the Cacklefest brings old nitro, gas, and alcohol burners...

Gallery: Hemi Car Wheelie Action from the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Charlie Westcott Jr vanquished the field at the Mopar Hemi Challenge, contested at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. His infamous “War Fish” 1968 Plymouth Barracuda managed...

Event Coverage: 1,000 Photos from Friday at the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Friday at the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion was hot as hell and the action on the track was equally as intense. The car show area was packed wall to wall with early arrivals to the action as...

UPDATE: BangShift.com to Provide Wall to Wall coverage of the 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

BangShift.com will be on-site for all the action at the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Our crack team of photographers will be on hand June...

Historic Drag Video: Door Slammer Action from Hallsville Drag Strip in the 1970’s

This vintage drag racing video takes us to Texas in the 1970s. The race is being held at Hallsville Drag Strip, which is still under operation but now called Hallsville Dragway. As you’d...

Retro Galleries: Revisiting our 2009 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Galleries

We’re gearing up for the BangShift.com visit to this weekend’s 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, so to get your juices flowing we thought that we’d throw our collection of...

Ford Introduces Mustang Model Aimed at Drifting Crowd

Of all the special versions of the Ford Mustang that have come and gone over the years, none have been aimed at the drifting demographic. Ford has decided to fix that with the introduction of the...

Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Dodge Daytona in the A2 Wind Tunnel

Gary and Pam Beineke’s series of 1971 Chrysler wing cars are all based on early 1970s Chrysler documents that showed the company had tested scale models of aero ’71 cars in the wind...

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CraigsList Find: A Crazy T-Bucket Dragster Rod

Of all the wacky junk we have ever seen for sale on Craigslist, this “1921 Ford T-Bucket Dragster” that’s for sale in California may take the cake. The seller seems to be indicating...

Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

The dudes over at Motor Trend are reporting that high level GM executives are thinking about pulling the 4.5L diesel, dubbed the “mini-Duramax,” off the shelf and offering it as an option...

Historic Drag Video: Gassers at Indy in the Late 1960’s

After finding the killer gasser-style truck this morning we decided to go on a YouTube trolling mission for good vintage gasser footage. We found some neat stuff that was shot at Indy during the US...

So-Cal Racing Heavy Les Richter Passes at 79

Les Richter, the man who led Riverside Raceway and later oversaw the development and operation of California Speedway in Fontana, California, has died. He was 79 years old. Before getting into the...

Event Coverage: The 2010 Carlisle All-Ford Nationals

The 2010 Carlisle All-Ford Nationals took place on June 4-6 at the 102-acre fairgrounds in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The show packed thousands of cars, massive numbers of vendors, burnout fun, test...