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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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Event Coverage: SEMA 2009 Wednesday Early Gallery

We’re here at SEMA 2009 and we’re not making up stories when we tell you that this deal is massive. Here’s small sampling of some cool cars, parts and people we saw while making the...

Event Coverage: 2009 SEMA Show Tuesday Gallery

The 2009 SEMA show is now in full swing with all of the parts, cars, trucks, and even semi tractors loaded into place and polished up. We were running around like a chicken with it’s head cut...

Memphis Motorsports Park Closing: Here are the $ Numbers

On a Monday conference call, Dover Motorsports, the parent company that owns the freshly defunct Memphis Motorsports Park, shared the financial information for the facility and the picture was not...

Live Video of the GMPP Emissions-Legal Crate Engine Announcement from SEMA

Just 5 minutes ago, BangShift.com broke the news of four new GM Performance Parts crate engines that are emissions legal to install in any pre-OBD2 car or truck. Now watch below as Dr. Jamie Meyer...

GM Performance Parts Reveals Crate Engines up to 550hp, Smog Legal for Any Car!

Here’s the big news that GM Performance Parts has been teasing us with for a week or more with sneaky videos on YouTube and other rumors that have been going around: 4 new crate engines will be...

Event Coverage: 2009 Jalopyrama Car Show from Annapolis, Maryland

The sixth annual Jalopyrama took place on October 31st in Annapolis, Maryland. Lucky for us, our intrepid east coast lensman, Joe Grippo was on hand to capture all the hot rods and action. He got...

Jeremy Mayfield’s Former Lawyer (and Boss Hogg look-a-like) Claims He Has Not Been Paid

Bill Diehl, the attorney who was formerly the lead man on suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield’s defense team, claims that he has not been paid for the services rendered to Mayfield during...

NHRA Blocks AHRA Reunion Races from Happening at Tracks They Sanction

The 2010 revival of the American Hot Rod Association has run into a serious and potentially crippling snag. The NHRA has informed the tracks that they sanction that they may not run AHRA events....

Roadside Find: Killer 1972 Chevy Ramp Truck

Strange to say, but these days, towing a race car has become sort of a luxury experience. There’s massive pusher motorhomes, stacker trailers, and all different kinds of trick appointments one...

BangShift.com Live Streaming Video Webcasts from SEMA 2009

BangShift.com is doing two live webcasts from SEMA next Tuesday, November 3rd. The first will be from the GM Performance Parts press conference at 10:40 am PST. GM is promising a crate engine that...

Live Video: GM Performance Parts News from SEMA Coming on Tuesday at 10:40 Pacific Time

BangShift.com has finally landed at the 2009 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, and we’ve already snuck into the show to create a small photo gallery you’ll see soon. The big news is that we crashed...

Speedfactory’s Blown, All-Aluminum 440 Hemi Challenger to Debut at SEMA

Do you want a 700-horsepower Challenger of your own? SpeedFactory is debuting their latest creation at the SEMA show, and it includes some bad assed parts that will make any Mopar freak happy. We...

New Video from Ridetech.com features our old pal, the crew cab Chevelle!

<!–[endif]–> Bret Voelkel and the rest of the Ridetech crew are not only sponsors of BangShift.com, but also good friends. Besides having some of the coolest suspension systems...

Hotchkis debuts Handlebars for your Camaro!

It sounded funny to us too, but after opening the press release, we get it. Hotchkis’ new first-gen Camaro Handle Bars are designed to tie the firewall of your Camaro into the sub-frame to...