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Merry Christmas From BANGshift! We Hope You Enjoy Christmas With Your Loved Ones And That Santa Is Good To All Of You!

Every year the message is pretty similar, and on behalf of the Reynolds family, along with our amazing BangShift.com sponsors, I’d like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry...

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CHRISTMAS TREES GOING 6 SECONDS IN THE 1/4?!?!? MORE CHRISTMAS TREE DRAGS FROM BRADENTON!!!!

Spoold Media was on hand at the Christmas Tree Drags at Bradenton, and we’ve got their video right here. We’ve already shared the video from 1320Video and KSR, but this one is different...

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MOONEYES Christmas Party 2025 Video: Classic Cars, Hot Rods & Models Together Celebrating 75 Years Of Mooneyes!

The Mooneyes Christmas Party is always one of our favorite events of the year, and I really do miss it now that I live in Texas. It was one of those annual shows that we really looked forward to each...

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Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras: DETROIT DIESEL Dually Squarebody! Will It Make It 600 Miles Home or Leave Him Stranded?

This thing is cool! Well it looks cool anyway, even though I’m not a big fan of the 6.2 liter diesel under the hood. And before all you 6.2 and 6.5 fans start bitching, know that I grew up with...

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Stop Telling Me How To Drive! They Might Be Good At Instructions, But What Happens When a Rally Co-Driver Takes the Wheel?

Have you ever been driving down the road and had a backseat or passenger seat driver telling you how you should be doing it better? Or telling you straight up that you are doing it wrong? Worse yet...

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Is This Even Savable? THE FRAME REPAIR MASTER TACKLES THIS INCREDIBLY COMPLEX MERCEDES TRUCK FRAME REPAIR

I don’t know that most frame shops would even want to repair this thing, or that the condition of the wrecked truck would be worth saving. But that’s what is happening in this video here...

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Vice Grip Garage: Forgotten Old Chevrolet Service Truck – Will it RUN AND DRIVE Home?

In typical Derek fashion, he’s having to get another ride up and running and ready to see if it can possibly make it home. The fun part about this square-body Chevy pickup is that he had never...

Weird Science: Watch These Guys Spool A Turbocharger With A 60,000 PSI Water Jet And Fill A Weather Balloon With It!

This is one of those things that makes absolutely no sense but is really kind of interesting and fun to watch. You are going to see some guys who have a huge industrial water jet mount a turbocharger...

The Corvette Game Changer: 22 Years Ago Chevrolet Brought Back The Z06 Name In A Big Way

As much as everyone geeked out at the debut of the C5 Corvette in 1997, the hysteria seemed to grab another gear in 2001 when the Z06 was debuted. The public knew that there was some sort of awesome...

BIG BLOCK MALIBU MAKES IT’S FIRST PASS @Redlineraceway Caddo Mills TX

Our pal Ryan Wing, Street Car Chronicles on YouTube, was out at a charity car show and race at Redline Raceway just east of Dallas and decided that Mike Honcho, his big block powered Malibu, needed...

HOW TO MAKE BIG BLOCK FORD POWER PART 2! 514, 521 AND 557 CUBE BBF STROKERS. 700-1,100 HP COMBOS!

Big Block Fords can make big power! I know, it seems like nobody talks about them, but it is true. We recently shared Richard’s series on simple power combos that make up to 600 horsepower with...

NOT A BOAT! 1000HP On Water – SWAMP BUGGY Racing in Florida With 1320Video!

Back when Diamond P and TNN covered Swamp Buggy Racing in Florida they would have a whole “season” of racing coverage. The truth is that they only had a couple races each year, but with...

Daddy Dave’s Audi Hits The Track: Insane 1st Hit In His New Audi Race Car!

Dave is back with the Audi again. Last week we showed you dyno testing the new car and now he’s at the track with it! I love this car, it looks so cool on camera and in person, and the color is...

Who Makes The Best Ratchet (Round 2)? Let’s Settle This! Snap On, Proto, Matco, FACOM, Gedore, Nepros, Crescent

In the US these are called ratchets. Some places call them ratchet wrenches, which gets confusing here because there are ratcheting wrenches, like the ones made popular by Gear Wrench several years...

FINNEGAN STRESSING OUT! BOUGHT HIS WIFE A CAR FROM AN ONLINE AUCTION!!

Uh oh…. Did Finnegan buy a lemon while trying to buy something nice for his wife? He bought a super clean looking CRX, that I assume she liked before he started bidding, but is it all the...

Huge Muscle Car And Truck Restoration Parts Warehouse Auction May 17! 1960’s And 1970’s Chevrolet, Mopar, Ford, Pontiac, And More!

If you are in the market for muscle car restoration parts, including a ton of sheet metal parts, for GM Cars and Trucks, plus Mopars, and Fords, then this auction right here could be for you! Check...

The 1955 Chevy Apache Pickup Rebuild: Firing Up The 6.8 LS3 For The First Time!

The gang has been back at it, and in this video, they are finally getting the truck to actually run! Will it be ready for the trip and actually make it? There have been some great videos and lots of...

Milwaukee’s New Line Wrenches vs Professional Tools Mac, Snap-On, Proto

Line wrenches, are one of those tools you don’t think you need until you screw up a line fitting because you only have an end wrench. I have a bunch, from a few different brands, and can tell...

Laguna Seca Hosts The Ultimate Street Cars: Part 2 – We Get To The Points On OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Series

(Words by Jim McIlvaine) There are seven events that make up OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car presented by Advance Auto Parts. Once those events are run, the top contenders are...

NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Sportsman Drag Racing Photos

Our next gallery of photos from David Whealon are all Sportsman drag racing action shots. We started off the week with nothing but Nitro action, moved to Pro Mods, and now we’re moving into these...