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ROAD TRIP GOLD! Freiburger Highlights Abandoned Places and Americana From His 1968 Ford Galaxie Road Trip!

Freiburger loves a road trip. I’ve been fortunate enough to be on several with him over the years, and he’s the king of a side trip and of just following wherever the trip takes you. He...

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Check Out The NEW GMT800/NBS GM Truck 5&6 Speed Manual TransmissioConversions From American Powertrain!

That’s right folks, American Powertrain just dropped their New Body Style GMT800 stick shift swap kits! Available with a 5-speed Tremec TKX or a 6-speed Tremec Magnum, these kits make your...

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Funny Car Chaos Set To Kick Off 2026 Season With Back-to-Back 32 Car Showcases! It’s A Funny Car Extravaganza!

We’ve got big news coming out of the Funny Car Chaos camp as they are kicking off the 2026 season with TWO big Funny Car shows you won’t want to miss. With 32 cars battling it out at BOTH...

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Here’s Our Final Gallery From The Drag Racing Showcase at the I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026

We’ve shared three of Joe’s great photo galleries so far, but we’ve got the final one left right here! If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them all out...

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Buyer Beware! 1/3 Of The $500 Worth Of Spark Plugs Tested Were Counterfeit! Order Your Plugs From Someone Legit!

I’ve heard about counterfeit tools a lot in the last few years. Stuff that looks like DeWalt or Milwaukee, but that is just a cheap fake. And some that even say the brand name on them! Hell,...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 MARCH MEET! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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Trick Flow Power: Check Out This Stock Stroke Chrysler 360 Making 530hp and 486 lb-ft On The Dyno – Neat Build

The 360ci Chrysler V8 is one of those platforms that doesn’t get the love and attention that it likely deserves across the hot rodding world. Yes, we have seen guys do stuff with them but it is...

Turbonique Video: A Five Minute Turbonique Promotional Video From the 1960s!

The story of Gene Middlebrooks’ Turbonique company has been told a zillion times on the internet. The company that made rocket propulsion available to the common hot rodder disappeared in a...

Pat Musi Racing Engines Unveils Smashing New Nitrous Combo – Still 959ci But Now With 12.6″ Deck Height – Monster!

Unbeknownst to most of us at the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals at Bradenton Motorsports Park a couple of weeks back, there was a new monster in the midst of the pro mod competition. This engine which...

Ford Performance Talks About Its Raft Of Support For The 7.3L Godzilla Engine – Announces Creation Of Megazilla Crate Engine

This video from PRI is great on a couple of levels but for starters the biggest one is the fact that Ford Performance is going to fully support the 7.3L Godzilla platform engine. For whatever reason,...

Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics: The Robotics Company Will Now Have Automotive Input

(By Tom Lohnes) – If you had to pick what to spend $100 million on to benefit the Hyundai Corporation, you would probably develop a new SUV or fast-track production of the new Santa Cruz...

The Black Ghost: The Story Behind An Infamous Hemi Challenger And Its Street Racer Reputation

The 1973 Mercury Comet GT that I first learned how to drive like an unhinged maniac in would never fully be my car. For reasons that are still a mystery to this day, the little Comet had a history...

Never Grow Up: Watching Big Trucks and Old Shovels Doing Pretend Work Is A BangShift Spectator Sport

Oh, you may love the NFL, NBA, or NHL but as far as Banghifty spectator sports? If we are going down that road, nothing is better than watching big trucks and old shovels doing pretend work....

Rough Start: 1979 Pontiac Firebird In Need Of Sticker Removal

A couple of days ago we showed you a video of Jay Leno driving an absolute creampuff of a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am, to the letter how we’d want it: WS6 suspension, black, T-top, four-speed, bird...

Cool Then, Cool Now: This Look At The 1994 Porsche 911 3.6 Turbo Stirs Up Our Teenage Angst

Growing up as a muscle car and drag race loving kid, it may be a bit of a surprise to hear that I hav always had a weird fondness for Porsches as well. Not that I or anyone else in my family ever...

Stay In Shape: This Video From QA1 Talks About The Importance Of Off-Season Suspension Maintenance For Drag, Street, and Circle Track Cars

If there is one part of racing and really hot rodding in general that does not get the attention that it deserves, it is maintenance. Keeping your parts, pieces, and car working the way it should...

Awesome Video: This Is The Craziest Plow Demonstration Ever – Train Tracks, Rocks, Plowing The Forest Floor! At Speed!

This could be the most BangShift approved plow demonstration video ever created or that ever will be created. The crew at Pathfinder snow plows wanted to show off how tough their polyurethane bladed...

The Lamborghini SC20 Is One Of The Wildest Things They Have Ever Built And You Can’t Have It

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well, that thing is awesome. The Lamborghini SC20 is the perfect car to be unveiled in Winter with its lack of a windshield or roof, RWD, and V12. If you have a gold-plated,...

Watch This Stock Long Block Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 Make 1100+ Horsepower With Twin Turbos

It’s almost impossible to conceive of an era where guys would pour every cent they had into an engine, employ every known speed trick and killer engineering theory to achieve 300hp. Right? I...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Christmas Gift Are You Buying Yourself This Year?

I can say with no amount of uncertainty that expecting someone else to read my mind and know what I want for Christmas is a crapshoot at best. I don’t give hints, I hate asking for things, and...