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Day 6: Shannon and Jess Campbell’s King of the Hammers 2026 Daily Adventures: Watch All Of Their King of the Hammers 2026 Videos Right Here!

We shared some of Shannon Campbell’s history at King of the Hammers the other day, and you can use the link below to check that out, but here are Shannon’s Daily Updates from the Lakebed...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Every Man Challenge Is Today, Plus The Kids 170 Tonight! Here Is All Of Our King of the Hammers Livestream Action From Johnson Valley!

Off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026 continues right here! We’ve got the livestream rocking right here from start to finish, so make sure you tune in and...

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Nicole Baird’s Blue Ribbon 1932 Ford Roadster built by Squeeg’s Kustoms Win’s America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At GNRS 2026!

This year’s cars that were competing for America’s Most Beautiful Roadster were as diverse as I’ve ever seen, and while I thought all of them were beautifully done cars, there were...

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WILL IT RUN? Freiburger Is Fighting Ants, Moss, a Possum, and Shag in His Junkyard Van So He Can Road Trip This Beast!

I’ve bought some pretty nasty vehicles before, but by far the worst of my life was the C4 Corvette that I bought to make into the Vette Hack test car and that later became the Vette Cart that...

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How to Chop An All-Original 1932 Ford Tudor: Chopping a True Survivor – Nailing the Tricky Rear Profile on Our ’32 Ford Roof Chop!

Now that the most delicate welding and fitting is done on the A Pillars, it is time for the final stage of this top chop. To finish this bad boy up, the rear side windows have to come together to...

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Grand National Roadster Show 2026 Photos Continue: More Hot Rods, Customs, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Street Rods, Trucks, and More!

We’ve got another gallery of fun photos! Check them out below. (Photos by Chad Reynolds) Our newest gallery of photos from the 2026 edition of the Grand National Roadster Show features awesome...

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Destruction Video: Amazing Industrial Accidents

So far today, the BangShift Day of Destruction has been all about the wrecking of motor vehicles. But a lot of car guys like anything with an engine and power, and the ability to wreck things, and...

Destruction Video: Road Rage Gone Wrong

Not that we endorse road rage or acts of violence against the Man, but every once in a while some chucklehead combines the two with results that backfire right in his face. Like the gentleman in the...

Destruction Video: When Animals Attack Cars

Here’s something you probably didn’t worry about on your drive to work this morning, but there was a chance that your car could have been attacked by a pack of wild baboons, or maybe a...

Destruction Video: Worst Drag Car Fire Ever?

This is a nasty, nasty bit of video of a car that burst into a raging fireball in a matter of 1 second at one of the Big Dog races at Piedmont Dragway a few years back. We happen to know that the guy...

It Came from the Forums: Squishing Stuff in a Massive Press

Loren Krussow is a name familiar with regular BangShift.com readers. He writes a column around here called, “It Came From the Fab Shop.” Loren’s business is building stuff from...

Destruction Video: Stupid Burnouts Followed by Stupid Roll Overs

Burnouts are fun until someone gets hurt. Then they’re hilarious. Actually, we don’t think anyone really got hurt in any of the videos below, but it’s amazing how a little tire...

Destruction News Update: The Rest of the Story

A short while ago we told you about a wild Associated Press story out of Southern California that had a car flying off a highway and into a house. On the way into the house the car broke a gas main,...

Monday Time Killer: Funny Site Loaded With Mayhem and Violations

We have not had a Monday Time Killer installment in a while, but this one is very worthy. It’s ThatWillBuffOut.com, which is both a great name and a great site. It’s a blog with a never...

Destruction News Break: Shortest and Most Interesting AP Story Ever

We used a shot of the General Lee as the lead photo for this blog item, because it’s about a little five-line Associated Press story that sounds like something straight out of a Dukes of...

Destruction Video: Bus and Truck Crash Tests Gone Wrong

Planned crash testing for science and engineering is entertaining enough, but what happens when the crash testing becomes an accident in itself? These two videos answer that question. If you’re...

See the BangShift.com Photo Galleries

The photo galleries here on BangShift.com are the most viewed part of the website outside of the forums. For new or returning visitors, we wanted to make this post to send you to see some of the...

eBay Pick of the Week Destruction Edition: Own Your Own Car Crusher

In keeping with today’s stated theme of wall-to-wall destruction and carnage, we thought the ideal eBay pick would be the ultimate in automotive end-of-life technology, the car crusher....

Video: Day of Destruction Starts Now with Old-School Daredevils

As we announced on Friday, today, October 5, 2009, is the landmark first-ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction. We’ll bring you great compilations of automotive stuff getting trashed every hour...

Video: 7-Second AMC-Powered Gremlin!

BangShift member Eagle Kammback tipped us off to this Gremlin that just ran 7.91 at Milan with a 463-inch AMC motor that uses the stock block and stock-based crank! It also has a Liberty five-speed,...