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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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Money No Object: This 1989 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe Ain’t Cheap But It Should Be Fast!

The Thunderbird Super Coupe might have been a performance car by late 1980’s standards but that wasn’t saying much. With a 210 horse 3.8L V6 with a little Eaton blower on it, the thing...

Furniture Made From Car Parts Is Cool. Would You Put Any Of This In Your House, Or Would Your Better Half Make You Keep It In The Garage?

Every time I see a bed made from a truck bed, or a tailgate bench, or one of those couches made from the trunk of a car, I think how cool that would be to have in the house. Since we’re...

How To Build A Roll Cage At Home: This Video Is A Step By Step Guide To The Entire Process. Watch And Be Inspired.

If you have moved your project along to the point where you need or want a roll cage, then there are several options for making that happen. If you are not the type to do some cutting and welding...

Built It Or Boost It? The Most Common Question I Get Asked About LS Engines. But This Time It’s A 5.0 Ford.

In this era of boost every junkyard combo possible, the number one question I get from people is what to do to their engine before adding boost. Back in the day, anything over 5-7 lbs meant that...

Wild Horse Pass Set To Start 10 Year, 10 Million Square Foot Expansion. None Of The Race Tracks Look To Survive

So when is the end? Well, I’m not sure, but I can tell you that it can’t be too long. Recent news is that Sunbelt Holdings will lead the project, which will include huge expansion at Wild...

It Is A Crazy Boat/Motorhome/Van From The 1980’s. It’s The Boaterhome!!

(Words by Scott Liggett) We first came across one of these Boaterhomes back in 2010 in an Ebay ad sent to us by a BangShift member. We thought it was nuts back then, but the ad really didn’t...

Watch This LS Blow Thru Turbo S-10 Get Built In Just 10 Minutes. I Wish My Stuff Went Together This Quick!

This square body S-10 is a clean little truck that started out like most projects, coming home on an open trailer. But after lots of time and money, it became a cool street strip machine that looks...

Road Tour Episode Two: 1500 Miles In Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And Trucks Like The 1977 Legends Truck

Here is Episode Two of the Road Tour video series. We shared episode one yesterday but if you missed it, then use the link below to watch that one. An epic ’55 Chevy was the special focus of...

Chip Foose Draws A Fox Body Mustang: His Interpretation Of The Car If Carroll Shelby Had Helped Design The Original

The Fox body Mustang is arguably one of the most universal performance and racing platforms ever. Light, cheap, and good looking, the Fox Mustang is attractive to racers and performance enthusiasts...

DIY Steel Fender Flares, Without An English Wheel Or Any Other Special Sheetmetal Tools

In the 1970s, flares were the thing. I remember my dad’s business partner putting giant fiberglass fender flares on his 1968 Camaro and how pissed off it made me at age 6. I had a hard core...

This Doomsday Or Ultimate Adventure Ready Unimog Went From Fire Truck To Zombie Ready In The Most Epic Way

This is one hell of a Unimog. I have been drooling over them again lately, even though I know that I have zero time or money to put into one. But when I get ready to build an off-road expedition type...

It’s On!!! Richard Holdener Took My 1,000 Horsepower Blown Small Block And Put It Up Against His Blown Big Block!

That’s right, my 400 inch small block up against a 496 inch big block, with both using the exact same blower and pulley combos to see who makes more power and what the differences are. With the...

Road Tour Episode One: 1500 Miles In Elite Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And Trucks That Weren’t Built To Sit, But Built To Drive

The Roadster Shop Road Tour was an epic event that most people would have died to go on even if it wasn’t 2020, but given the COVID-19 Pandemic we have all been going through, this event was...

TKX Now Available For Mopars! New Pro-Fit TKX 5-speed Systems For 1966-70 Mopar B-Body

American Powertrain keeps bringing us new Pro-Fit TKX kits, just like we said they would, and that means every muscle car, hot rod, and truck will soon be able to swap the best overdrive swap manual...