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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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Bizarre Fatal Crash at Sebring International Raceway

A man was killed Friday when he snuck onto the racing surface at Sebring International Raceway, in Sebring, Florida, and crashed his pickup truck. The man went into the track under cover of darkness...

The Top 11: Never Made Special Edition Ford Mustangs

If you are a BangShift.com forum dweller than you may be familiar with the posts of of Speedzzter. He’s always got interesting takes on the automotive world and is willing to engage in healthy...

Creepy Crazy Fun With a 1974 Dart

Dave Belau is a blogger and Mopar enthusiast over on the CarDomain.com blog. CD editor Rob Einuadi tipped us off to this great read from Dave. It seem to blur the lines of fact and fiction, is...

Mayfield Backing Down?

It looks like the defense has blinked first. Jeremy Mayfield who recently was courting top celebrity attorny Mark Geragos as potential legal representation, has apparently retreated from his...

Great Read: Ohio Man Reunited with Mopar Factory Racer He Bought New

Man this is cool! Harmon Friend walked into a Dodge dealer in 1965, threw down $4,600, and drove off with a genuine factory killer. It was a Hemi-powered lightweight Coronet. Ma Mopar built just over...

Book Review: Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman by Matt Stone and Preston Lerner

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman by Matt Stone and Preston Lerner is the latest in a very strong line of releases from Motorbooks. This book chronicles Newman’s career as a hard running...

HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS OF THE 2009 CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION

BangShift.com’s live streaming video of the 18th California Hot Rod Reunion presented by the Auto Club of Southern California and held at Auto Club Famoso Raceway is finally over after a very...

Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Sunday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion, With ‘Chutes!

The last day went out with a bang at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California. It was an amazing weekend of nostalgia drag racing with a great car...

Photo Gallery: Even More Drag Action from Saturday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

On Saturday night after the Cackle Fest at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion, the BangShift.com crew was so wrecked from producing the live feed all day that we did not upload all of our photos. We...

Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Saturday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Today was major Funny Car day at the 18th California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Auto Club of Southern California. They had 30 floppers in the show, plus a huge pack of Gassers, Altereds, Top...

Photo Gallery: Giant Cackle Fest at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

A couple years ago if you told us that people would fill the grandstands just to see a dragsters fire up and idle, we’d have called BS. We would have been way wrong. The Cackle Fest events,...

Photo Gallery: Saturday Car Show and Pits at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Saturday at the Hot Rod Reunion is the big day, with more show cars, more action in the pits, and more spectators than any other day. On Friday we covered most of the show cars, but there were so...

Photo Gallery: Drag Racing Action from Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

Nostalgia car shows are great and everything, but one of the best things about the California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Auto Club of Southern California, is that dudes are out there actually...

Photo Gallery: 200 Pics of the Car Show Friday at the 2009 California Hot Rod Reunion

It’s not just that the California Hot Rod Reunion has awesome nostalgia drag racing. The event also has a huge car show held in The Grove, the area just behind the grandstands at Auto Club...