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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

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 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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This 1970 Chevelle Pro Mod Could Be Yours! Moran Hemi Power In A Bickel Chassis Sounds Fun To Us!

This is one bitchin ride, and in 2013 when it first debuted there were not a bunch of Chevelle bodied Pro Mods running around. Now you see them on occasion, but back then this was not the case. This...

Finnegan’s 1961 Caddy Is Back For A Tight Fitting Cage And An Awesome Rearend!

This 1961 Cadillac project that Finnegan is working on really turns our crank. With the goal being Caddy comfort with 8 second drag strip ETs and the potential for 200 mph in the standing mile, this...

UTV Takeover At Sand Hollow Utah Is One Bad Ass Event! Watch This Crazy Action!

When Blake Wilkey goes to an event and says it is amazing, you know it has to be good. When he says that it is one of his favorite spots, you know its really, really good. Such is the case with UTV...

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Comedic Towing Failure Video: You Think You Know What’s About To Happen But There’s A Plot Twist

(WORDS BY GREG ROURKE) – File this one under “Apparently we don’t spend any time on Youtube and see that this happens EVERY DAMN TIME.” This appears to be India or Pakistan,...

Best of 2020: This Guy Built His Own Prosthetic Hand Setup With Aluminum!

Call it a toll of war, call it experience by years, but it is just a true, frank statement: I know way too many people who are missing limbs. Many have lost hands, feet, legs, eyesight and in many...

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Best of 2020: The Ultimate Overshoot Accident At Rallye Coeur de France

Seeing rally racing crashes isn’t anything new. Fast little machine on narrow track usually equals some mangled sheetmetal and wounded feelings at some point or another. We’ve shown you...

Best of 2020: Street Car Takeover Bowling Green: For A Moment, All Was Right With The World

So here’s the full disclosure on how Friday went down: for some reason my heat-soaked brain didn’t comprehend that racing happened on a Friday for the first time in decades and I left...

Best of 2020: The Republic XF-84H “Thunderscreech” In Action

By nature, any aircraft is going to be loud on the outside. I’ve got a decade of experience in that world…APUs, turbines, propellors, rotorcraft, name it, it’s loud. Earplugs were...

Best of 2020: Racing Up The Derebasi Turns in Turkey!

It’s known as State Road D.915 and it’s a north-south route in northeastern Turkey, from Of, Trabazon to Askale, Erzurum. It’s 111 miles long and it crosses over some rugged,...

Best of 2020: Devin Taylor’s 2014 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon

It’s always fun to debate the merits of a street car that has performance numbers far and above what it should, isn’t it? Somebody says their car has “X” amount of horsepower,...

This 1969 Valiant Pacer Has A 380ci Stroker 340 with a Single Turbo And It Runs 9s At 8psi In Australia (W/Video)

Oh, we forgot to mention that it is a four door as well! How ’bout dem apples?! The 1969 Valaint Pacer looks a lot like a 1969 Dart but with a slightly different front end. It looks like this...

Cool Video: This Computer Recreation Of The Red Baron’s Last Dogfight Is A Neat Look Into Old School Military Aviation

Being that it is Saturday we thought it was OK to stretch the bounds of our normal wide scope a little and share with you this video that is a computer recreation of Manfred von Richthofen, better...

Happy New Year From Your Friends At BangShift.com!

Usually, we run our New Year piece on January 1st, but I think I speak for everybody in the room when I say that this year cannot be over soon enough. Look, let’s be very honest here for a...

Pocket Rocket: This Fiat 500 Has A V8 Made Of Two Hayabusa Engines, Fender Flares For Days, and We Want It!

There’s a certain awesomeness that we continue to discover and rediscover about the European hillclimb scene. The fact that it’s all a giant kind of run-whatcha-brung scene is so...