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More Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: Mini Trucks, Full Size Rigs, Lifted Bro Dozers, And A Camaro In The Texas Sun

We’ve got another fresh gallery of photos from the Lone Star Throwdown, a Texas sized show that never disappoints! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because we’ve...

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Free Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA Drag Racing From The Season Opening GatorNationals at Gainesville.

Catching all the testing action from Gainesville Raceway on March 3-4 right here, ahead of the legendary season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 at the historic racing...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: More Build Updates, Including Axle Prep, Four-Link Mounts & Major Floor Replacement.

If you missed this FJ40 project that Shannon Campbell is working on, we’ve got a link below, but if you are back for the next installment in this build series you are in luck as well. In this new...

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Vice Grip’s Cheap Cadillac Comeback! Derek Bieri’s Allanté Gets Paint, Brakes & Ice Cold AC In An Effor To Make It A Fun Driver!

My dad worked for Cadillac for years when I was a kid growing up, and he grew up in a Cadillac family. We’ve had Cadillacs in the family since the 50’s, so I do have a special place in my...

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This Freshly Restored 1969 440 Six-Pack Dodge Super Bee Is Greatness! It’s Up For Auction, So Check It Out Now!

In 1969, Mopar was doing it right. Whether you were talking about Chryslers, Plymouths, or Dodges, they had you covered with awesome muscle cars and hot rods that you just couldn’t help but...

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I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026 Photos! This Indoor Drag Racing Showcase Features Some Amazing Race Cars, History, And More!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Here in the northeast section of the country we are in the deep freeze so most of the fun stuff moves indoors. We took a break from off season race car upgrades and...

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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,...

Video: Swingin’ 1961 Chevrolet Commercial

This is a mind-blowing, nearly 2-minute commercial from back when GM was in a good mood. The piece from 1961 looks more like the opener for a Doris Day comedy than it does a car commercial, but it...

The Parting Shift: Getting it Done With a Five-Gear

Here’s a new weekly feature that we’ll use to lower the curtain on a week’s were here on the blog. Each week we’re going to fearure a video of someone really rowing a...

Who The Hell Owns Richard Petty Motorsports?

It seems that every other week we’re hearing news about Richard Petty’s NASCAR team and none of it ever seems to be good. There was the rumor of Dodge leaving them high and dry, a rumored...

Carnage Video: Nasty Mazda Rotary Tumbles in the Lights

You may think that import cars are weak sauce, but the guys in Puerto Rico figured out the Mazda rotary engines long ago and they have some insane action there on the country’s four drag...

Exhaust Violation May Lead to Capture of Murder Suspect

Can a pair of oddly placed exhaust stacks on a truck that has no business having exhaust stacks lead to the capture of an Illinois murder suspect? Authorities hope so. The truck was spotted in...