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Did Project Farm Really Improve Gas Mileage by 22.4%! Don’t Get Scammed and Do What Works!

With average gas prices in the country in the $4.50 range today, it’s no wonder folks are trying to get better gas mileage right now. For many of the drivers across the country it is going to...

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FIA World Endurance Championships Highlights From TotalEnergies 6 Hours of SPA – Wheel To Wheel Racing Action

Round 2 of the FIA World Endurance Championships was held at SPA, aka Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, and did not disappoint. This is an epic race track, and the action here is always great,...

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Capturing Car Culture With Larry Chen: First Cameras Allowed in Toyota’s GR Factory: Minimal robots & More Humans

This is a cool episode of Capturing Car Culture if you are like us and love to see factory and how its made videos. I’ve been on several automotive assembly plant tours and can tell you that...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 1 of 5 – His Bandit Trans Am Needs Some Love!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In the...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND! THIS IS HELLA 2026, COURSE 1 ACTION

If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look to be...

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Car Show Video From The 13th Annual LoneStar Deluxe Hot Rod and Music Festival in Texas City TX

Our friend John Jackson is back at it with more cool video from another great Texas car show, and this time it’s got a twist. This is the 13th Annual LoneStar Deluxe Hot Rod and Music Festival...

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Event Coverage: Another 198 Photos from the 2009 March Meet

It’s been tough to sit here at the Easy Coast bureau and watch the photos roll in from afar, but it sure looks like the kickoff to the 2009 NHRA Heritage Series lit off like a barrel of TNT...

Event Coverage: 2009 March Meet Pits, Swap Meet, and Car Show

First we brought you a photo gallery of action from Friday at the 2009 March Meet, and today we’re going to have two more sections of event coverage. This one here is all photos from the swap...

Event Coverage: The 2009 March Meet, 100 Friday Photos

Today, Friday, March 6, was the kickoff day of the 2009 March Meet at historic Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. It’s actually in McFarland, but no one really cares....

Chadmouth: I Want to be the Guy with the Mullet

While walking through the Long Beach Swap Meet last weekend, I saw some guy in a tube-chassis Duster cruising the parking lot on his way to the car corral and it got me pondering the fact that you...

SEMA Scholarship Deadline Coming Soon

We got this press release from SEMA today alerting us to the fact that the deadline to enter their scholarship application process is drawing nigh. If you are a student in an automotive discipline...

Cars and Skateboards Go Together

It’s my opinion that cars and skateboards go together. I may get raised eyebrows for saying that but I believe it’s true, at least in Southern California. Surfing and cars work,...

Thread-Jack: Every Known Photo of the F-Bomb Camaro

The old boss (David Freiburger) certainly has a collection of neat junk, but in our book, none is neater than the infamous F-Bomb. Apparently we’re not the only ones who feel this way because...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: GM Considering Bankruptcy

With body blows coming on a nearly daily basis, GM has begun the process of letting us, the motoring public, know that it is mulling filing for bankruptcy. There are serious doubts from internal...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Killer 1936 Ford Truck

Normally we don’t go all ga-ga over straight resto’d pre-war cars and trucks but this one is just too neat to pass up. It is a wonderfully done truck powered by a factory...

Cool Old Press Photos: The 1957 Buicks

Buicks were certainly a hot GM ticket in the late ‘50s. With an economy that was rebounding from a bit of a slump, many people were aspiring to own one of the General’s intermediate...

Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster Streamlined for the March Meet

With the March Meet coming this weekend we got a neat press release from our pal Mike Bumbeck regarding the Champion Speed Shop team and their Nostalgia Top Fueler. This car is powered by a...

Gearhead Destination: The Studebaker National Museum

OK kids, if you are going on the 2009 Hot Rod Power Tour you have absolutely no excuse to not check this place out as the tour is running through South Bend, Indiana, the ancestral home of Studebaker...

Video of the Week: Dinah Shore and Elizabeth Montgomery sell Chevrolets

As car junkies we often find ourselves reminiscing about the old days. This week’s videos are commercials from Chevrolet’s past and show the American spirit of the automakers of old....

NHRA versus ADRL on Nitro Pro Mods

Proudly, we were one of the first news sources to bring you the inside story on the ADRL allowing injected, nitro-powered Pro Mods at their races. When the story broke and news came that cars were...