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Cleaning Up A Dirty Rear! – Resto How To: Repainting a Rusty Rear Axle on a 1980 Trans Am

Sometimes technique is everything, and using the right products can be a game changer. When combined, the right methods and techniques, along with the right chemicals and coatings, can make all the...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: 3rd Annual Christmas On The Coast Jr. Dragster Races – Saturday

With big money bracket racing going bigger and bigger each year, it’s about time the Jr. Dragster races start stepping up as well. This race here, in it’s third year, has big money up for grabs...

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Inaugural FTD Customs End of the Year Extravaganza – $25,000 Saturday

Is this the final big money bracket race of the season? It is at Immokalee anyway, and thanks to our friends at MotorMania, we’ve got all the action live for you to check out right here. This...

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Swap Meet Photos: Grippo Hit The Junkyard At Fleming’s Pumpkin Run And Look At What He Found!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Location, location, location. The old adage relating to real estate holds true many times for car events. The Pebble Beach Concours, Amelia Island Concours and even...

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Grinding Disc Testing: The Ultimate Grinding Disc Shootout Requires A Pretty Trick Grinding Disc Testing Rig

Jason at Fireball Tools is doing the ultimate grinding and flap disc shootout, and because he only does stuff as scientifically as is reasonable, it means that a very special testing rig is required...

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Happy Holley Days Is On, Big Deals On The Brands You Love! Intakes, Exhaust, EFI, Ignition, Brakes, Resto Parts, And More.

Happy Holley Days are on, and their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have been great. But Happy Holley Days continues now through December 25th with their biggest deals of the year! If you want to...

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Dare To Be Different: Check Out This Caterpillar 3208 V8 Converted To Run On Methanol With A Massive Turbo!

When it comes to getting different with power plants there is not a motorsports on Earth that holds a candle to tractor pulling and that is doubly true in Europe where everything from radial engines...

Eight Tires And Two Stacks Make For A VERY, VERY Smokey Burnout – Watch This Western Star Smolder The Tires, Drift, and Spin Donuts

The name of the guy driving this very powerful Wester Star rig is Jacques Lafleur and as you’d probably guess, ol’ Jacques is one of the many French-Canadian hot rod big rig enthusiasts...

This 1970 Lincoln Mark III Is An Epic Road Trip Machine! Low Miles, Looks Mint, And It Could Be Yours! Someone Buy It For Power Tour 2025.

This bad boy came up in a group chat I have going with some friends, and while I’m not a Ford guy I couldn’t help but fall in love. I don’t like green cars, and this one still looks...

Build A Pretty Cool Welding Fixture Table At Home For About $100! It Is Cheap, And Doesn’t Require Any Specialty Tools!

I know, I know, it’s another welding fixture table. But this one is ultra cheap, portable, and easy to store! So you don’t need a bunch of room to store it, you can move it to wherever is...

Ever Wonder What 144 MPH Looks Like On The Salt At Bonneville? Ride Along On The Cornfield Customs Roadster During Bonneville Speed Week 2024

We’ve been sharing tons of Bonneville Speed Week photos with you guys over the past 10 days, but seeing what the salt and speed are like from a car actually racing down the salt is something...

Larry Chen Feature Video: This VW Frankenstein Lupo Drag Car From Hell Has TWO, YES TWO!!! VR6 Engines In It!

This thing is nuts! In the world of import drag racing, VW isn’t the first name you think of, but it might be the last because this is about one of the most insane race machines we’ve...

Check Out Even More Of Our Long Lost Chicago Auto Show Photos From Earlier This Year! Jim Hrody Got The Goods!

Here’s our second gallery of Jim’s photos from the Chicago Auto Show. If you missed the previous gallery, use the link below to check them out too. (Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) After...

Check Out This Great Video Of Test Running The 1980 Miss Budweiser Offshore Race Boat During The 2024 Apollo Columbia Cup!

Regardless of the era, Miss Budweiser has always been an impressive boat, and arguably one of the most famous off-shore race boats ever. So when I saw this video of the 1980 version of Miss...

We Don’t Know Why But We Like It: This 7-Cylinder Briggs and Stratton Sounds Good!

Thank God for people who just do stuff to entertain themselves or at least do stuff to prove to themselves that they are capable of actually doing it. In this case we’re talking about someone...

A Study In Balance: The 1998 Kenny Brown 289 RS Mustang Coba Wasn’t Cheap But It Sure Was Good

There’s the old adage that you can have cheap or you can have good, but you cannot have both. That’s been true forever with cars (for the most part) and this video from 1998 shows that...

Here’s Two Minutes Of Unimogs Doing The Kinds Of Things That Only Unimogs Can Do – Fun Stuff

Over the duration that BangShift has been around we’ve showed dozens, maybe hundreds of videos that highlight the incredible capabilities of the Mercedes Unimog. From their military uses to...

Check Out This Awesome Old 4×4 GMC Army Truck In Brazil – Diesel Power And Big Capability

In the never-ending quest to prove that gearheads are pretty much the same in every corner of the world, we have found a group of guys who restore and beat on vintage military trucks in Brazil. These...

1969 Road Runner Walkaround with Steve Magnante: Another One Of Plymouth’s Coolest Muscle Cars Could Be Yours

As many of you know, our friend Steve Magnante nearly died from a brain infection he got last year, but has been making big improvements over the past few months. We would have loved seeing Steve...

Broader Performance Shows Us How To Check An Automatic Transmission Dip Stick For Accuracy. You’d Be Surprised How Off They Can Be!

Most of you have probably never found your engine or transmission dipstick to be off, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t. When you mix aftermarket dipsticks, tubes, and oil or transmission...