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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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Stacks Are Back! Hilborn Has New EFI Stack Injection Setups For Big Block Chevrolet With All The Looks Of The Originals

I’ve always wanted to own a big block equipped ride with Crower or Hilborn stacks just sticking out of the hood. I mean they may actually look cooler than a roots blower, they are that bad ass....

Cash Days New Orleans Video Coverage Right Here! Wheels Up Street Racing In The South At Da Pad!

In this epic age of street racing, where Cash Days have become something even some casual hot rodders and car fans know about thanks to all the tv shows, there is big money on the line. With Covid...

Would You Buy An Unfinished Drag Car Project? How Unfinished? Or Would You Only Buy Stuff That Is Ready To Race?

I often tell folks looking for a new project to look at unfinished projects that someone else has given up on, lost interest in, or has come up short on funds to finish. A lot of the time you can get...

This 3rd Gen Camaro Is Big Tire Greatness. We’d Race The Snot Out Of This Thing, After Installing Just One More Thing.

I’m a huge fan of 3rd Gen Camaros, and have been since my dad drove one daily as his dealership Demo car when I was a kid. His wasn’t nearly this cool though. With 565 cubic inches of...

Blower Or Turbo: Will This Test Settle The Argument Over Which One Is Better?

The argument over which is better, turbos or blowers, has been going on since someone bolted the first one of each on a hot rod and will likely continue until the last pair are every bolted onto a...

The Hustle Is Real: The FTI Performance Team Is Gearing Up For NHRA Nitro Funny Car Action In Gainesville

If there is one thing that we know for sure, there are loads of race teams thrashing hard to get ready for the 2021 Amalie Oil Gatornationals as we speak. People are chomping at the bit to get back...

The Well-Heeled Hellcat: The 627 Horsepower BMW M5 CS Is Lighter, Stronger, and More Powerful Than Ever Before

(By Tom Lohnes) – The BMW M5 Competition is Germany’s craziest sedan, with 617 horsepower, AWD, and ridiculously quick acceleration figures for a 4,250-pound sedan. Well, the crazy just got...

A New Path Ahead: Is This Going To Be The Last Gasp Of The Nissan Pathfinder As A Crossover? Body On Frame Coming Back?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Nissan is about to pull some serious risks in the next few years. Making an all-new sports car such as the upcoming “Z Proto” in such a dire financial state is unheard...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride With Jim Pace As He Roars Around Road America In A Shadown DN-4 Can-Am Car!

It’s still unfathomable to us that Jim Pace is no longer out there driving race cars. Jim’s passing was a shock to the world, especially to us here at BangShift. The good news is that...

Unicorn Review: Who Remembers That You Could Get A Two-Door Diesel Yukon In The 1990s?!

The GMC Yukon name has been amazingly successful for decades now. The handsome SUVs have taken several different forms over the years but we’d argue that none were more handsome than the form...

Remember The Fab Rats Jeep YJ That They Cut In Half? Well, They Are Fixing It Now So It Won’t Just Be A Cut In Half Jeep

In the first video that the Fab Rats put together on this YJ, you’ll remember that they marked it up and then cut the thing right in half, without any hesitation and with little fanfare. Of...

Unveiled: 2022 Nissan Frontier – “Don’t Fix What Isn’t Broken” Is A Solid Plan

It’s amazing to think about how up-in-arms car reviewers and auto journalists (real and professed) get about a vehicle platform that has some age to it. The last-generation Ram had been around...

All Muscle: This 1979 Caprice Doesn’t Need To Be Flashy To Get The Job Done!

The 1979 Chevrolet Caprice, in a shade of completely inoffensive sandy tan, with a whorehouse red interior and flat-disc hubcaps. Can you feel yourself transported back thirty years, when these cars...

Money No Object: 2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta Pininfarina – If You’re Going To Go Full Supercar, Do It Right!

It was the great dividing battle among budding young car geeks in the early 1990s: were you a Ferrari or Lamborghini kid? They were easy to tell apart: one bought the poster of the red Miami Vice-era...