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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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REAL STREET CARS BATTLING ON NO PREP!!!! EXTREME STREET AT DOD CHRISTMAS CLASH 6 AT ROCKINGHAM

Dig or Die Christmas Clash 6 is in the books but boy was it fun! In the video below you’ll get to see all the action from the 2025 race thanks to our friends at Spoold Media. Check out all the...

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Billet, Custom Graphics, Tweed And More: This 1993 Buick Roadmaster Is 1990’s Custom Greatness And Can Be Yours!

The 1990’s were awesome for the custom car and truck scene because horsepower was just starting to come back and everyone was into making big visual changes to their rides in order to keep them...

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Goodwood Revival 2025 24/7 Livestream: Relive All The Action From Goodwood’s 2025 Edition Of Their Famed Revival

Goodwood puts on some really cool events, and there Revival and Festival of Speed are two of the most famous. They recently showed this year’s Festival of Speed livestream replay, and now...

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Kearney Cruise Night Proves It Will Take More Than A Pandemic To Keep Hot Rods In The Garage!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Photos continue! The town of Kearney Nebraska and the Central Nebraska Auto Club (CNAC) have been putting on Cruise Nite for 32 years. The event started out as...

Classic YouTube: Crash-Testing The NASCAR SAFER Barrier, Just To Make Sure It Worked

Racing cars crash every now and then. It’s just a fact supported by statistics. Nobody wants anybody hurt in a crash…not the driver, not the fans, nobody. Over the course of motorsports...

Slight Miscalculation: The Tough Truck Mustang Gets Friendly With The Wall At Buck Motorsports

Between 1979 and 1993, millions of Ford Mustangs rolled off of the assembly line. Millions. Their popularity hasn’t waned any, either…they are light, easy to modify, have an outstanding...

Part Two: Optima’s Wet Search For The Ultimate Street Car Continues With Real Street Cars Racing In The Rain

(Words By Jim McIlvaine) There is a certain segment of automotive enthusiasts, who brag about owning cars that have “never been in the rain.” They only take their cars out when the forecast says...

Build A Real Race Car For Real Cheap! Bargain Racement Gets More Upgrades That May Or May Not Fit The Rules But Hopefully Make It Faster!

We’re in love with Bargain Racement from Bad Obsession Motorsports. These guys are fun, talented, and they do things we want to do. Like more wheel to wheel racing! For the price of a halfway...

Classic YouTube: Watch As This Six-Second Camaro Gets Loose And Goes Spinning At Calder Park

Drag cars do not like going sideways at speed. Drag cars do not like doing donuts at speed…rather, at all. If a drag car gets too far sideways, there is a damn good chance that the tires will...

OPTIMA’s Wet Search For The Ultimate Street Car: Real Street Cars Run In The Rain

(Words By Jim McIlvaine) There is a certain segment of automotive enthusiasts, who brag about owning cars that have “never been in the rain.” They only take their cars out when the forecast says...

Finnegan’s Garage: Epic Road Trip, a Blown Up Hemi, and Goodbye 6 Door Ford!

When something is going smooth for Finnegan and Dave it always seems like something else is going, well, not so smooth. Such is the case with trucks, and trailers and well Blasphemi in this...

Supercharged Suicide: Adding A Blower To A Hot-Rodded Power Wheels

Behold, the blower. If turbochargers are the thinking man’s way of increasing the air in the cylinders on each stroke, and if nitrous is witchcraft, then the supercharger is the blunt-force...

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Check Out Richard Holdener’s New Field Find Nova Project He’s Calling The River Monster.

Yeah, it’s been underwater. Yeah, it’s kinda ugly. Yeah, it is going to need a lot of work. But you know what? It’s still a 1972 Nova and it is going to be one hell of a testbed for...

Ride With Peter Williamson During The 1980 Bathurst 1000 In The Small-Car Class: His Celica Against Ford Capris At 9,000 RPM!

Bathurst. The icon of Australian racing, now and then, with visions of drivers with almost no sense of self-preservation putting everything they have out on display for the fans. It is no wonder why...

Check Out These Rad Carbon Fiber Brake Boosters From Master Power! This Is Turning Things Up A Notch!

(Words by Jesse Kiser) Editor’s Note: Dude! When our friend Jesse said he had something cool and new to share with the BANGshift Nation, from the guys and gals at Master Power Brakes, I...

Motorboatin’: Reviving the Mercury Marine 302 In The Crappy Boat!

A boat is like an RV in many ways. It’s a luxury that you strive to achieve, and the day you tow one home for the first time, you are over the moon. Life doesn’t get any better than that...

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Alive And Well! The Kearney Cruise Night Brought Out Hot Rods, Trucks, And Street Machines Of All Kinds

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) The town of Kearney Nebraska and the Central Nebraska Auto Club (CNAC) have been putting on Cruise Nite for 32 years. The event started out as cruising around town...