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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Are These The Weirdest Monster Trucks Ever Produced: Taking A Look At Monster Jam Trucks, Big Foot Trucks, And More!

I’m old enough to remember when Monster Trucks just ran over parked cars, and didn’t fly through the air. Hell, back then nobody would have ever imagined they would be doing backflips and...

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The Best Rolex 24 at Daytona Finishes of All Time! IMSA Shares Their Favorite Finishes Of All Time!

IMSA’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is coming up in just over a week, with the Roar Before the 24 coming this weekend. If you aren’t familiar with everything that goes on during the month of...

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Larry Chen’s 240Z Final Gets Much Needed Suspension and Interior Upgrades, Plus Other Cool Stuff!

Larry Chen has some fun rides, but his 240z is “the one”. What I mean by that is that this is his forever car, the one that will never get sold and sent on its way to a new home. Larry...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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Photo Gallery: Donut Derelicts Cruise, January 2010

Back in 1986 a few buddies started getting together with their hot rods on Saturday mornings in Huntington Beach, California. Over the years, this weekly gathering of cool rods, muscle cars, trucks,...

Video: Camaro Outruns BMW in Insane Swedish Snow Race

This is one of the best races known to man. It happens in Sweden, where BangShift.com member Gasfot Sweden races his beater second-generation Camaro in events that are like road races or...

The Tale of the Hot Rod Murder Case in 1949

The St. Petersburg Times in Florida has posted on its web site a story written recently by the reporter who was on the beat way back in 1949 when a hot rod was used to identify the murderer of a...

Vintage Drag Video: Legendary American Racers Running at Santa Pod Raceway in England

Santa Pod Raceway in England opened up as the first permanent drag racing venue in Europe on Easter, 1966. It has been going strong ever since as the awesome video we have unearthed proves. It was...

Gallery: Great Historic Car Photos from the Library of Congress

As it turns out, you can get free stuff from the government. In this case, that something is a bunch of great old historic photos that are available through the Library of Congress. We spent many...

GM Offloading Pontiacs and Saturns at Near Fire Sale Prices

GM is doing everything in its power to get all the remaining Saturn and Pontiac models left on dealer lots sold. There are currently insane discounts being offered up to dealers so that they’ll...

Hot Rod Magazine Challenges Show Cars to Drive on Power Tour 2010

It seems like a good new year’s resolution to decide to drive your car instead of just polishing it. The guys at Hot Rod magazine are trying to push show-car owners in that direction with a new...

Totally Bitchin’ Video: 1952 Hot Rodding Propaganda Film Starring Santa Ana Drags and El Mirage Dry Lake

Here’s a neat film from 1952 that tells the story of Mel, a street speeder who gets a ticket, then loses the girl when he tries to recover his manhood by racing a jalopy, and loses, at CJ...

BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!

Out with the old and in with the new! It’s now 2010, and since we have a digital lampshade on our head right about now and don’t have a way to share the occasion with you personally, we...

Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!

In an amazing showing of bowling-ball sized stones, 26-year-old Travis Pastrana set the world record for a rally car jump on New Year’s Eve, flying his Subaru 269 feet over water and landing on...

Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California

Travis Pastrana has done so much bat-poop crazy stuff with cars that it reminds us that we should do a video compilation of it all. Until then, watch ESPN tonight to see if he succeeded with this...

Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965

It was very good to be Carroll Shelby in 1965. Hell, it is very good to be him now, but in the mid 1960s the man had the world by the stones. Bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company, Shelby was building...

More Changes At The Top Level of General Motors Management

Interim GM CEO Ed Whitacre is at it again. He’s made more changes at the top of the GM food chain by announcing that he would be replacing GM’s “Head of Government Relations”...

GM to Change Discount Policy for Employees

GM will make significant changes to their policy of giving employees who want to buy a GM model big discounts. In the current version of the plan, no vehicles are off limits, so the hot selling...