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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for 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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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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Music To Your Ears: Watch, And Listen, To The Best Sounding Cars From Goodwood’s 83rd Members Meet Right Here!

Whether you love the sound of a great American V8 at full song, the shreak of a V12 Aston Martin, or the songs that Ferraris and F1 cars make, you’ll love this video. This is nothing but on track...

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EPIC FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 4 and 5 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat. It’s all big...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Mission Raceway

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Check Out The On Track Action and Checkpoint Photos Right Here!

When BANGshifter Neal Sabo said he was going to head down to Buckeye Skips 2025 Drag and Drive, to snap pictures and check out the cool stuff going on, we were like “Hell yeah!” He hit...

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Goodguys Del Mar Car Show Photos: Hot Rods In The California Sun

(Photos by Wes Allison) When the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association comes to the Del Mar Fairgrounds near San Diego, it is always a great show. The fairground end right at the beach on the Pacific...

Hot Rodding 101: Ford Flathead Ignition Buyers Guide – From Stock To Race Magnetos!!!

The guys at Iron Trap Garage started a Hot Rodding 101 series a couple of years ago that we’ve watched, but we never shared it with you guys until now. They just put up a new one today so we looked...

Video: Know What A 1,200hp AWD VW Golf Looks Like On The Drag Strip? A Fuel Altered, That’s What

When it comes to stuff on the drag strip, very few vehicles rise to the level of what I would call, “wicked”. This is one of them. You are about to watch a MkII VW Golf that has all wheel...

Victory Lap: This 1960s NASA Video Celebrates the Mercury Program’s Success And Is Awesome

We here at BangShift have never been quiet about our live for the US space program and the incredible magic it produced for decades. The famed Mercury Seven were perhaps the most brave and heroic...

Gallery: Vintage Truck Ads From 1966 

America was booming in the middle 1960s. There were massive construction projects going on all over the country, industry was consuming resources that needed to be cut, moved, or mined out of the...

The Alfarrari Project: Making A Crank Position Sensor, And Figuring Out How To Mount The Injectors.

How hard can it be to make a crank position sensor work in an Alfa Romeo that has a Ferrari engine in it? Who the hell knows! Good thing Jeff has it figured out because that is what one of the two...

Classic Car Interiors: Basic Customization Of Seat Foam – Getting The Shape You Want For Your Seats

Sometimes you can swap a modern set of seats into your hot rod, custom, or muscle car and they look right. Other times the size is wrong, the bolstering is too extreme, or they just don’t...

Make It Kustom Designs A Custom Split 1932 Grill For A Hot Rod Roadster

After installing a cool Duvall windshield on their 1931 Model A Ford Roadster, Karl at Make It Kustom wanted to do a split grill shell as well. The car is running a ’32 Grill Shell, which stock...

American Powertrain Introduces Complete Square Body Chevy/GMC 4×4 TREMEC 4050 Transmission Kit for 1973-1987 Pickups

You know that we love our square body, 1973-1987 Chevrolet trucks around here, and that’s not only because they look awesome but also because there is so much aftermarket support for them...

Testing TikTok Tool Hacks: Surprisingly Amazing, Or Just Stupid?

If you are like us, you laugh sometimes at the tools you see on TikTok or Facebook, or even YouTube for that matter. Sometimes they are in ads, and other times they pop up as people who are just...

The American Powertrain Monday Shift: 1980s Gear Jamming Drag Racing Perfection!

Oh yes. Ohhhhhhh yes. This is an awesome American Powertrain Parting Shift because we are going to take you back about 30 years or so to Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina. Here we are going to watch...

Cordless Impact Gun Tests – Bosch’s New Mid-Torque vs M18: The Most Underrated Impact Ever

The cordless impact battles between brands is a lot like the diesel truck battles that Chevrolet, Ford, and RAM are in. Tool makers are constantly throwing out new models and new specs. When one of...

Finnegan’s Garage Update Video: REVEALED! ALL THE DIRT, 10MM SOCKETS AND FUN!

Video Description: This is Episode 240 of Finnegan’s Garage and right now I’m on the road so today’s drop is a fun video where I tell stories, open fan mail, and give you inside...

CARBURETED HO 8.1L GEN 7 496 TEST. HOW TO RUN A CARB ON YOUR 8.1L EFI, GEN 7 BBC? WHAT IS IT WORTH?

It’s time for more Gen 7 Big Block 8.1 testing. This time it is a special setup where an 8.1L is getting an intake and carburetor, plus a distributor! Yep, a distributor. It’s going into...