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California Man Reunited with Stolen 1969 Camaro Bought Brand New By His Vietnam Veteran Father!

We hear about car thefts all the time, and have been victims ourselves, so when we saw this story on the national news this morning we knew we had to share it. In 1969, after returning home from the...

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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway Featured Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 2nd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check the out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Southeast Gassers Association 2026: First Drag Race of The Year from Shadyside Dragway

Here’s a livestream replay from the Southeast Gassers Association’s First Race of 2026 at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina. If you like traditional nose high gassers that still row the gears,...

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Craigslist Find: Flamed Ice Drag Racing Snow Machine

Next weekend we’re heading to the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont. It’s home to the Goldenchild Nationals, one of the premier ice snow machine drag races in the world. There are...

Carnage Video Pair: Hitting the Christmas Tree

It’s the ultimate drag racing party foul, running over the Christmas tree. Aside from being rare and usually pretty spectacular, it is a major pain in the ass for the track personnel. Once the...

World’s Smallest Procharger Supercharger

Earlier today we wrote about the new ShockWave air suspension for UTVs, and we started wondering if there was anything actually cool that can be done with one of those glorified riding lawn mowers....

Video Bonanza: Burnout Fail! (You’re Doing it Wrong)

After posting the tire explosion video earlier today, we were in the mood to find more videos of burnout related failures. As it turns out, searching for “tire explosion” on YouTube...

The History of the Detroit Autorama and the Ridler Award

The famous Detroit Autorama is coming soon to Cobo Hall on February 26-28, and BangShift Chad will be there to bring you the action. The Autorama is legendary today as a leading indoor car show, but...

Video: Ridetech Now Thrashes on UTV Suspension, Too

Our friends at BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech are always up for a good time, and “good time” at home base in Jasper, Indiana, usually means thrashing on new products and taking fun video...

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Caption this photo: Under Pressure

We’ll be the first to admit that this is a weird photo. In fact, we’d rank it as one of the weirdest ones we’ve taken, but it is ripe for awesome captions. This isn’t a...

New Pro Touring Competition, Run to the Coast at El Toro, California, sponsored by Ridetech

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational held right after SEMA is really kicking up the action in the world of Pro Touring fans who really like to beat on their cars. Bill Howell is a guy who...

A Site Worth Seeing: Texas Drag History and More

Once in a while when we are digging for news on the web we stumble into a great web site that makes us lose track of time for an hour or so. If we’re so dragged into the site, we figure that...

Photo Gallery: The February Long Beach Swap Meet Car Corral

It takes a lot to get us moving on a weekend morning before the sun begins to rise, but the legendary Long Beach Swap Meet is totally worth the effort. While BangShifters in most other parts of the...

Carnage Video: Camaro Ripped Open Like a Tin Can by a Tire Explosion

Imagine you innocently enter a sanctioned burnout contest and end up totalling your third-gen Camaro without ever moving an inch. That’s what happened to this guy, and his car suffered the most...

Barnstormin’: Mental Notes Just Shy of My 30th Birthday

Well, I’m facing down the reality that my 20’s are fast drawing to a close. In a day or so I’ll officially be 30 years old. That’s a fact that strikes me as both a little...

More Good Stuff From Be Cool: Be Coolant, Super Duty Antifreeze

After telling you about the new radiator that adds another piece to an already full product line we knew we had to pass along the information about Be Cool’s new Be Coolant, which is designed...

New Parts: Killer New 2005-2010 Mustang Radiator from Be Cool

As more and more hot rodders start wrenching more power out of late model Mustangs, the limitations of factory parts are becoming apparent. One of those weak links in the chain is the factory cooling...