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Incredible Transformation: Grandpa Cries Seeing His 1964 Impala SS 409 Cleaned For The First Time in 18 Years!

We’ve all pulled our car into the driveway and broke out the car washing stuff and thought “man this thing is dirty”. It’s those wash days that make you smile because of the...

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Drag and Drive Fun Continues! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 | Race Day Three | Pueblo Motorsports Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Three video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! Day Three AND Four are both at Pueblo Motorsports Park...

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New Junkyard Inventory! GMC Trucks! 1953 and a Seldom Seen 1954! Check Out The Interesting Differences Between Them!

We’ve got more fun junkyard inventory from our friend Chad Ehrlich at Nobody Else’s Auto in Great Bend Kansas. This week Chad is sharing these vintage GMC pickups, and you might be suprised by...

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Check Out This Killer Custom Home Built RV! They Bolted a Wrecked RV to a Retired Firetruck (Full Tour)

Firetrucks are awesome, and so are RVs, so when you take a retired firetruck and put a wrecked RV body on it then you’ve got something that could be really, really, cool. In the video below, we...

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OG SMALL TIRE RACING IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! KILLER STREET AT ELK CREEK DRAGWAY JUNE 2026!!!!

Oooh yeah! Elk Creek Dragway is something special, and with racing like this we understand why. In this video you’ll see Killer Street 275/28 and more as the 5.30 and 6.30 index classes take...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Carnage Video: Crazy Catastrophic Engine Failure Now in High Def

The engine explosion of the European Maid pulling tractor has graced this website a time or two, but never in high quality television footage. This is the one where the motor explodes and the block...

BangShift.com’s favorite Mustangs from SEMA 2009

One of the biggest surprises for us at the 2009 SEMA Show was the number of cool old Mustangs. We were expecting nothing but late models, but much to our delight, we found Trans Am racers, Cammer...

BangShift.com’s Top Five 2010 Camaros from SEMA 2009

Public opinion going into the 2009 SEMA Show was that the 2010 Camaro was going to be the car of the show, even if Ford was the sponsor this year. The public was right. There were literally dozens of...

BangShift.com Members Get Exclusive Discount at Speed Shop!

BangShift.com forum member and speed merchant extrodinaire Rich Dodrill (SpeedJunkee on the forums) has taken up residence at a new speed shop in the greater Indy area. He’s now employed at the...

Bangshift.com Picks Our Top 5 Street Trucks of SEMA 2009

There were a huge amount of trucks being displayed at the 2009 SEMA show. They ranged from slammed down mini-trucks, to humongo, high-riding, blinged out monsters. We’re fans of stuff that...

Event Coverage: 2009 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational

BangShift.com was there for the 2009 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational on November 7, but yours truly was jamming hard announcing the event and could not get out there and take photos or video....

Roadside Find: A Laid Out 1998 Chevy Truck

The weekend before we headed off to the SEMA show, we were running errands on a Sunday morning and crossed paths with this bad ass, totally laid out Chevy truck. We’re thinking it is a 1998 as...

Ebay Find: The World’s Quickest 1960 Chevy Bel Air

Hey! We know this car! This 7-second monster belongs to BangShift.com forum member Mike Casella. He’s been having tons of fun with its big 707ci, nitrous fed Donovan motor for a few years now...

Book Review: Motion Performance, Tales of a Muscle Car Builder by Martyn Schorr

Motion Performance is rightfully known as the wildest of the specialty muscle car builders of the 1960s and early 1970s. With the infamous Phase III Camaros and Corvettes, Joel Rosen and company...

Ridetech’s SEMA 2009 Experience: Awards, Drama, and More!

Longtime BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech seems to be everywhere at all times, and the 2009 SEMA show was no different. Ridetech not only launched thier incredibly trick new line of Select Shocks and...

Video: The 40th Anniversary Ignition from MSD

Earlier in the week, BangShift.com showed you the new MSD 40th anniversary 6AL ignition box in a cool retro-style look. Power TV was also there in the MSD booth and got this video of our friend and...

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Event Coverage: SEMA 2009 Friday Photo Bonanza

Here’s our last big gallery from the 2009 SEMA show. This one was shot on Friday and looks at some parts and lots of cars and trucks. One of the neatest parts of the show is the major traffic...

2009 SEMA Show According to Cherry Bomb

While we BangShifters were out covering the SEMA Show last week, so were all of our site sponsors. Wild man Matt Graves at Cherry Bomb had some cool projects in the works that we’re not going...

Breaking BangShift.com Project Junk News: Our 1966 Chevy C50 Comes Home

It’s been a wild weekend for us around here. First we winged home from the 2009 SEMA show on Saturday, then got all wound up for our trek on Sunday to officially score our new 1966 Chevy C50...