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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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FREE, LIVE, BIG MONEY BRACKET RACING: Great American Stars and Stripes New Year’s Spectacular – Saturday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2024 is going to be awesome, 2023 isn’t done yet!...

Fantastic Video: This Old Ad For A Fiat 127 Features One Of The More Incredible Driving Sequences Ever

The Fiat 127 was one of those cars that people instantly ate up. Fiat sold ’em like they were free beer from the early 1970s right into the 1980s with little more than cosmetic upgrades. The...

Track Freaks: Check Out This 1990 Video With A Mini-Van Tank and The Crazy Super Trax Peterbilt

Molalla, Oregon is the spot where this video was captured about 30 years ago and it’s a pretty neat watch if you are a fan of monster trucks from the 1980s and early 1990s. The video shows a...

Cool Video: Watch A 1927 Atlas-Imperial Diesel Tug Boat Engine Start Up – So Many Valves, Knobs, and Handles!

There’s something about watching massive old engines start up that we cannot get enough of. While this engine is certainly not the largest thing we have ever showed you and some may even argue...

Listening To Dave McClelland Call A 1980s Stadium Off Road Race Will Make Your Day

Mickey Thompson’s Off Road Warriors was a film produced the 1980s to act as a promotional tool for short course off road racing, a sport that the man had himself invented and was promoting...

It Was A HOT ROD CHRISTMAS ! The 3rd Annual Fort Worth CHRISTMAS CRUISE 2023 Made For A Fun Christmas Night!

We hung out with our friends on Christmas night for the 3rd annual Christmas cruise to Fort Worth, and it was a fun time had by all. Racers and hot rodders hanging out and bench racing before hitting...

They Hit The Walls, And Each Other Trying To Win What Has To Be One Of The Most Epic Winged Sprint Car Races You Will EVER See!

I grew up in Northern California in a drag racing family. We went to Fremont Dragstrip quite often when I was growing up, and drag racing was what we did. We didn’t autocross, or road race, or...

Edd China Is Dunking A Rusty 1986 Range Rover Chassis in 1935 Litres of Evaporust. Will It Actually Work?

I’m a fan of Evaporust, I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been using it since it came in a jug with a label that barely had a logo on it and have used it to repair and clean rusted tools,...

Jay Leno Takes Us For A Ride In Boyd Coddington’s 1989 Chopped Sport Truck – This Truck Helped Shape The Sport Truck Movement!

This Boyd Coddington built 1989 C1500 GMC is one of the most iconic custom trucks built in the last 35 years. This truck has been credited with starting the sport truck movement that we all know and...

Weird No More: The Saab 900 Turbo Wasn’t An Oddball In The 1980s, It Was A Window Into The Future

Before General Motors got their hooks into Saab and drove it straight into an iceberg, the Swedish auto manufacturer was an unlikely and awesome success story in the industry. An airplane...

Watch Two Steam Locomotives Work To Plow The Tracks On The Cumbres and Toltec Line

We love us some steam locomotives here at BangShift and have run hundreds and hundreds of pieces of content over the years showing them doing their thing in various configurations and settings. This...

Video – The Great Achievement: In 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary Drove To The South Pole On A Tractor

In 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary lead the first motorized expedition to the South Pole. His choice of vehicle? Massey Ferguson tractors and these were not huge Massey Ferguson tractors but pretty humble...

Video: Crash Testing A Golf Cart At 31mph Ends About As Badly As You’d Expect

Here’s a weird thing. Of all the races I have been to as a journalist, a spectator, or an announcer, the number of injuries and deaths that have happened in the pits dwarfs the number I have...

The Experts Said It Couldn’t Be Fixed. Jared Did It In Two Hours. For Free! Have You Ever Been This Lucky?

The Questionable Garage is usually doing fun stuff, but they are also usually kind of wacky. That’s not a bad thing, but sometimes a project like this one is what we really need to inspire us....