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IHRA Names Dustin Farthing New President Of The International Hot Rod Association

IHRA Names Dustin Farthing President of the International Hot Rod Association FAIRFIELD, OHIO — The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is proud to announce the appointment of Dustin Farthing...

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Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Testing And Qualifying Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND’s HELLA 2026! COURSE 3 RACING ACTION

If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look to be...

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Camden Murphy Sets Monster Truck World Speed Record at Monster Jam at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Monster Trucks are awesome machines, and the things they are capable of doing are mind boggling at times. But as fast, and crazy, and high flying as they are, top speed is not the thing you think of...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 3 of 5 – What’s Wizardry Is Going Into This Beast? The Science Behind Better Handling

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Coolest Video Ever: A German Dude Runs a 1970 Challenger At Full Tilt on the Autobahn

Holy friggin’ awesome. This video ranks in the top three of the coolest we’ve ever spied on YouTube. It’s in-car footage of a guy taking his very healthy 1970 Dodge Challenger out...

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Event Coverage: Walneck’s Motorcycle Swap Woodstock, Illinois

The newest member of the BangShift.com photo militia, Greg Rourke, recently attended the Walneck’s Motorcycle Swap Meet held in Woodstock, Illinois, and sent us back a photo dispatch from the...

Craigslist Find: A Homegrown 1976 Ford Monster Mudder Truck

Massive homebuilt trucks have a strange appeal to us. Take this giant ass 1976 Ford that was constructed by someone in the Omaha, Nebraska, area. It has half a mile of lift, a body that appears to...

AutoTrader Classics Find: A Neato 1962 Corvette Vintage Road Racer

We were recently chatting with a buddy about Corvettes. The topic of conversation gravitated to the classic American sports car and which variation of it we’d want to own. That one came in like...

Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed

With a total production of about 30 cars, it’s rare to lay eyes on a real 1971 Olds 442 W30 convertible, so seeing one of these cars get thrashed on a road course, spun out, and thrown through...

Pay Up Sucka: GM Repays US and Canadian Loans, Optimistic That Tax Payers Will Be Fully Repaid

Ed Whitacre was working the media channels hard core yesterday, announcing that GM had paid Canada and the US back their 8-billion in loans and then jetting (remember when that was a bad thing?) to...

Carnage Video: Violent Sprint Car and Midget Wrecks

It was bought to our attention that Sprint Car and Midget racing season was cranking up and this video was tipped off to us as a way to mark that. You may think it odd to mark the start of the season...

Old Stock Car Goodness: The Historic Grand National Stock Car Association

We find old cars to be exceptionally bad ass. There are few things neater in our nostalgia lovin’ hearts than the big iron that raced on road courses and ovals during decades past. We’ve...

BREAKING NEWS: Tasca Ford’s 2010 Cobra Jet Mustang Runs 8.97/153mph!

Carl Tasca, wheeling 2010 Cobra Jet #27, made the first run in the eight-second zone for the limited edition factory drag cars today at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. As best we know...

Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump

Tuff Truck races are normally a good time. The competitions are basically an off-road style obstacle course complete with jumps, mud, and other impedances. The trucks are all home-built creations and...

Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell

It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe...

NASCAR Track Operator Calls Start and Park Drivers Thieves

The president of Texas Motor Speedway accused start-and-park NASCAR teams of “stealing money” and said that NASCAR needs to find ways to stop the practice. Eddie Gossage, the guy in...

Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989

After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some...

Great Save Photos: Elllis Vial Does Some Unintentional Stunt Driving at VMP

We were cruising through the website of the wildest drag racing series in America, ADRL.us, the other day and came across an item on their blog we had to share with you. Ellis Vial, a racer in the...