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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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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Too Cool! Vintage Gremlin Stock Car on eBay

This is totally BangShift.com approved! A guy in New Jersey is selling his vintage Gremlin modified stock car. We’ve seen Pinto bodies and such, but never a Gremmie bodied model like this one....

Aussies Love Tony Stewart: Smoke to Race Sprint Cars Down Under

Tony Stewart is big stuff here in the USA, but apparently his stock is high all over the globe. Stewart will be racing sprint cars in Australia on December 26th at Parramatta City Raceway. This will...

NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Drag race Schedule Announced

Earlier this month, our friends at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum and the NHRA announced the Hot Rod Heritage Series race and show schedule for 2010. The official release and schedule is...

Don’t Cry for Milwaukee: New Life for North Wilkesboro Speedway

While we were crying about the seemingly imminent demise of the legendary Milwaukee Mile, we failed to realize that there is actually some good news shaping up on the race track front. That news, as...

Did The Real NASCAR Die with Dale Earnhardt?

The New York Times has been looking back at the “Decade in Sports” as we come close to entering the year 2010. A recent story in the series was devoted to looking at NASCAR and what has...

Just Because: China Daily Reporter Wants Monster Trucks in Beijing’s

Remember the famous “Bird’s Nest” stadium that the world was fawning over during the Beijing Olympics? Well the place is sitting dormant these days without a whole lot happening. We...

WTF 2: Government Giving Thousands in Tax Credits On Gussied Up Golf Carts

The government has a bunch of wacky credits available to people who buy plug-in electric vehicles. These credits were granted in the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, and we presume they...

WTF: Ford Festiva Dump Truck

We have to thank(?)BangShift.com forum member SpeedService for the tip on this one. Long story short, someone in Brazil, Indiana, took a Ford Festiva, which is one of the weeniest little cars ever to...

What This is All About: Idaho Men Band Together To Build Hot Rod for a Dying Friend

If you can make it through this whole story without having your heart strings tugged, you’re tougher than we are. This story totally sums up what the gearhead life is all about. Carrigan Brown...

GM Names Chris Liddell New CFO

GM has named 51-year-old Chris Liddell, the former CFO of Microsoft, to the same position at GM. Liddell may be the bravest man in America, taking on what has to be one of the most daunting jobs in...

Another Historic Track Dead: The Milwaukee Mile, With Video

It is claimed to be, at 106 years old, the oldest continuously operating race track in the country. It appears there will be no 107th season at the historic Milwaukee Mile. No national touring series...

Don’t Miss It: 32 Car Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Field at the 2010 March Meet, and BangShift.com Will Be There

We got slipped a note by our pals at DragRacingOnline that it has been decided the 2010 March Meet will showcase a 32-car field of Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars. This orgy of horsepower will be brought...

2010 Camaro to Pace Indy 500

Just a couple of days ago it was announced that a 2010 Chevy Camaro would be the pace car for the 2010 Indianapolis 500. The car is reported to be an RS/SS model. We have no idea who will be driving...

Proposed Social Circle, Georgia, Drag Strip debated at Town Meeting

A while back we let you know that the town of Social City, Georgia was trying to decide whether or not it would allow a businessman to build an 1/8-mile drag strip on some land that he purchased....