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SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS GO FOR THE $20K+ AGAIN!!!! LOSER’S BRACKET AT DIG OR DIE DIG DAYS 7 AT THE ROCK

If you like Dig or Die coverage as much as we do, then check out this race video from our friends at Spoold Media. Keep in mind, this race is worth more than $20,000 and it’s the losers bracket...

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Leroy Engine Teardown: Did Cleetus Tear Up This HED Beast? Or Is It In Great Shape Still And Ready For More Boost?

Anybody who knows Cleetus, knows that he can tear up just about anything. I can’t even begin to guess the number of engines he’s blown up over the years, but it’s an insane number....

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8×8 and 6×6 Truck Trials Competition: These Bad Ass Rigs Take On All The Mud, Climbs, And Obstacles You Can Throw At Them!

If you have never seen the Tatra truck trials, you are missing out. These 6×6 trucks are truly something special as they have insane suspension, locking diffs, and the ability to ascend and descend...

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Testing TikTok versus Instagram Tool Hacks: Testing a Fractal Vise versus a Dual Battery Behemoth. Are Either Worth Having?

You can imagine that being a tool testing channel on YouTube means digging through tons of comments telling you that you are wrong about the tools you test, or are testing the wrong ones all...

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Finally BIG TURBO POWER! Swapping a 500HP SRT4 Turbo Engine Into A Classic Dodge Caravan Wasn’t As Easy As They Thought!

In the previous installments of the SRT4 powered Caravan build, I said that I wasn’t sure there has ever been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine...

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INDYCAR NTT SERIES: EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix At NASHVILLE SUPER SPEEDWAY

Heavy rain meant the NTT INDYCAR SERIES couldn’t race on Sunday for the 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, but they were at it bright and early on Monday! If you missed the racing...

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State Troopers Stop Runaway Horse and Buggy, Neither Horse Nor Buggy Made By Toyota

We don’t think NHSTA will be getting involved in the investigation of this runaway vehicle because the root cause may have been an errant bag of oats, but Pennsylvania state troopers recently...

Caption This Photo: An Organically Grown Mustang

BangShift field photo agent and forum member Joe Grippo recently posted this hilarious photo of a Mustang springing forth from the ground. It’s totally ripe for some captioning action. We...

Dyno Video: A Boss 429 Screaming to Be Let Out

The Boss 429 was certainly a bad hombre from Ford back in the day. As we told you a while back, there are companies where you can now buy new crate versions of the blue oval monster to bolt in your...

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Kid Crashes Camaro, Gives Cops Flimsy Story, and They Seem to Buy It

When we read about two high school kids in a Camaro wiping out a fire hydrant in California we thought the kids were in for it legally. We then read the story that they gave the coppers about the...

Gag Us: Tesla Wins Lamest Auto Race In History

There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned, unabashed, stroke job news story. We found a great one touting the Tesla’s win at the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. The race is...

Insane Fail Video: How Not to Right a Tipped Over Tractor Trailer

This is one of the flat out nuttiest fail videos we have ever seen. It’s from a foreign country, which one we have no idea, and there’s lots of screaming and yelling in languages we...

New Sponsor: ProCharger brings Boost to BangShift.com

As you have undoubted noticed, BangShift.com has brought another new and exciting sponsor into the fold! We are proud to announce that ProCharger, The Ultimate Power Adder, has joined BangShift.com....

Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water

Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the...

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eBay Find: The World’s Most Expensive Quadrajet Carb

We like to torture ourselves by searching for our dream cars occasionally. One of the cars we like looking for among the fleet we’d love to have is the ’73-’74 SD455 Firebird. They...

Carnage Video: Guy Stuffs a Viper in a Line of Traffic

To set the scene, you’re out bombing around in your Viper, maybe even with a hottie in the passenger seat. Traffic is heavy, but you are slicing and dicing like Fangio. Life is good, and as...

Killer Parts: A Vintage Edelbrock SY1 Smokey Ram

When we recently got a call from our pal and fellow BangShifter Mike Casella of Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts, informing us that he had something we “needed to see”...

Ford Brings “One Ford” Concept to Drag Racing and John Force racing to Lead Contingent

In two related pieces of drag racing news from FoMoCo, it was announced that John Force Racing has signed on for another five years of corporate backing from the blue oval crowd, and that...

Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power

Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old...

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SEMA Action Alert: California Bill Could Expand Specialty Constructed Registrations

Some good news came to us by way of the SEMA newswire. It seems that there is a bill being considered by the California legislature that would increase the allowed number of “specialty...