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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 7 Racing Action! We Hope They Got Good Rest, Because The Desert Isn’t Playing!

It’s Stage 7, after a full day of rest, but the desert didn’t take a break. It’s ready to rock each and every day, and Stage 7 is no different. In the video below you’ll see Stage...

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WORLDS WORST Corvette! Will It FINALLY RUN and ROAD TRIP? Derek At Vice Grip Garage Has Got His Work Cut Out On This One

I’m a fan of a C4 Corvette, but I’m not sure that this one isn’t cursed. When Derek got it and started working on it, the problems became bigger and bigger and bigger. It had an...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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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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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Weird Fact of the Day

David Reutimann’s name will be etched in the history books because, when he won the rain-delayed Coca-Cola 600 yesterday, he became the first driver in NASCAR history to win a points race with...

Video: Blown Doorslammers in Action at the 2009 March Meet

And the hits just keep coming! Heavy hitters, that is, like the supercharged A/Gassers from the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series race that opened the 2009 season at Famoso Raceway near Bakersfield,...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: We Enjoyed a Jeremy Clarkson Column

Normally, Jeremy Clarkson, made famous by the BBC hit show Top Gear, is known for bashing the daylights out of American cars and anything that has to do with them. He comes off as arrogant, elitist,...

Video: 1,400 Horsepower 565ci Rat Motor on Nitrous!

You want to see some real big-boy power? Check out this 565ci big-block Chevy with Big Chief heads, twin Dominators on a sheetmetal intake, dry-sump oiling, and something like 650 hp worth of...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The Oscar Meyer Weinermobile

If you’ve read the BangShift.com Motorized Freak column long enough, you knew this was coming at some point. One of the most recognizable vehicles in the history of vehicles, the Oscar Meyer...

CraigsList Pick of the Week: Cool 1971 Chevelle Wagon

This week we head up north, way the hell up north, to the permafrost of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We scouted out a beautiful, big-block powered, 1971 Chevelle wagon that is the perfect mix...

FAST Rolls Out a New Catalog

Looking for EFI stuff? Want something to leaf through when you are supposed to be working at your desk? FAST has just the thing for you. The company has just rolled out a new 32-page color catalog of...

Video: Vintage Nitro Funny Cars from the 2009 March Meet

On Monday we blogged up the fact that we’ve got more video coming and told you that a bunch of drag racing action was headed your way. We started off with a general action reel, then posted a...

Great Garage Sale Coming to the San Diego Area

Our computer guys at Namtra Media are tight with the rod builders at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff, a shop that won the Ridler award a few years ago and that cranks out tons of killer iron. And...

It Came from the Fab Shop: The End of Cheap Old Car Parts?

(By Loren Krussow) – A few weeks ago, BangShift.com member Rebeldryver (Scott) posted a link to a CraigsList ad for a ’59 Chevy bench seat. For a tattered original with nothing usable...

Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Dodge Custom Lancer

Chevy seems to get all the design credit for the 1957 model year, and don’t get us wrong, the 1957 Bow Tie offerings were great looking pieces. But many people forget that the late-1950s Dodge...

Mayfield Lawyers Up in an Attempt to Clear His Name

Jeremy Mayfield, the NASCAR driver indefinitely suspended for violating NASCAR’s drug testing policy, has hired a lawyer in an attempt to clear his name. Apparently he has also acquired a copy...

Gearhead Destination: The Sand Hills Open Road Challenge

The bustling metropolis of Arnold, Nebraska plays host to The Sandhills Open Road Challenge, a unique event that is part road course time trial and part top speed challenge. The 55-mile course is a...

Video of the Week: Naked Pro Mod Burnout, on the Street

We’ve heard old timers tell us a million stories about working on their race cars at the local gas station and making the occasional trip up main street to try out their latest parts or tuning...