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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit 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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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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DD Speed Shop And Newbern Thrash On The ’57 For Power Tour Part 5 – Maiden Voyage In A Car Built In Three Days!?!?

Okay, so in this video it really is almost done. Except for all the other stuff they have to finish that is! Watch and enjoy cause this is going to be fun we promise. Besides getting it buttoned up,...

The Crew Cab Died, So Vice Grip Garage Bought This Ford F100 Sight Unseen! Will It RUN And DRIVE 640 Miles Home?

After the crew cab square body decided it wasn’t happy anymore, the prospects for Derek and the gang to make it to the next three days of Power Tour were looking pretty slim. So in typical Vice...

The Brumos Collection: This Collection Is Bad Ass, And The Photos Below Show It All!

Here’s gallery number two from this killer collection. We can’t thank Grippo enough for all the great content he shares with us here at BANGshift.com so that we can share it with all of...

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: Wally Parks NHRA Nostalgia Nationals Saturday

The Wally Parks NHRA Nostalgia Nationals, formerly the NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, is live all weekend thanks to the fine folks at NHRA. You can watch right here if you want to see killer...

Free LIVE Drag Racing: TB Promotions Twin Fifties Big Money Bracket Racing – Saturday Sunday Combo

More big money bracket racing coming to you LIVE right here thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. WWT Raceway, aka Gateway, is one hell of a racing facility and they are poised to make some racers a...

Free LIVE Drag Racing: 9th Annual Mutt and Jeff Big Money Bracket Race – Saturday

This is one of THREE live drag races happening this weekend and you can watch them all right here. If you like Nostalgia Drag Racing, then watch the NHRA Nostalgia Nationals. If you like NHRA...

National Tractor Pulling Association Photos From Galot Motorsports Park!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) The National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) opened their 2023 pulling season with a trip to the spectacular Galot Motorsports Park pulling track for the 9th...

DD Speed Shop And Newbern Thrash On The ’57 For Power Tour Part 4. First Start And Drive Before 1,000 Road Trip?

It’s almost done, except for all the other stuff they have to finish! Watch and enjoy cause this is going to be fun. We told you how DD and Newbern ganged up on Brandon’s ’57 Chevy to...

The Brumos Collection: The Grippos Tour The Entire Museum And Are Sharing It All With Us!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) I was vacationing in sunny Florida a few months ago attending the Amelia Island Concourse d’Elegance and NHRA Baby Gators among other adventures. While staying in...

The Vice Grip Garage Crew Cab Chevy Is Broken Down On Power Tour! Now What?

It’s never a dull moment in the Vice Grip Garage world, and sometimes that means the car you least expect will be giving you trouble. In this case it is the truck that is questionable. The crew...

Bolt Up Your LS Or Gen V LT Engine To A T-56 Or T-56 Magnum Transmission With Lakewood’s Bellhousing

If you have an LS or LT and want to bolt a T-56 to it, this new aluminum Lakewood bellhousing is just what the doctor ordered. These brand new parts make this installation a breeze! Watch the video...

OPTIMA BATTERIES RETURNS TO PIKES PEAK TO SUPPORT THE FIRST-EVER RIVIAN TO COMPETE, TANNER FOUST’S ONE-OFF RADFORD TYPE 62-2 AND OTHER LEGENDARY RACERS

MILWAUKEE (June 15, 2023) – OPTIMA Batteries, a leading brand of Clarios, is returning to the 101st running of Pikes Peak to charge the first-ever Rivian R1T to compete in the fabled hill climb....

Show Photos From The 24th Annual Brothers Truck Show Presented by Holley

(Photos by Tim King) It’s awesome to see that dedicated truck shows are on the rise once again. With a resurgence in the minitruck and custom truck scene, it is amazing to see just how many...

Glorious Noise: Watch This 20V149 Detroit Diesel Fire Up And Then Get Run At “High” RPM!

There will come a time in human history where people will look back at the era of internal combustion as curiously as we look back at the era of steam. We employ internal combustion engines to do so...