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Dune Session Video: Wheelies, Jumps, and Pure Adrenaline From Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan!

We love playing in the sand dunes. For those folks who don’t live near them, you are missing out. And where the sand dunes are located dictates when people go play in them. In Michigan, where...

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Dylan McCool is SELLING IT ALL! Okay, Well Some Of It Anyway. So Buy His Junk And Make It Yours!

It seems like a lot of YouTubers have been on a purging mission recently, getting rid of projects and cars that no longer inspire them or are being use. Freiburger has been doing it for months, and...

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Drag Racing Livestream: Division 1 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series from Numidia Dragway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest on the east coast and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. Check it...

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Unreal Adventure 2026 Dirty Dozen Announced! Who is your favorite for UA2026? Check Out Who Got In!

We talk about Unreal Adventure a lot because it’s just such a cool event and is run by such cool people. We’ve said for the past few years how much we’d love to go on this trip and...

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FORMULA OFFROAD ICELAND, from BLÖNDUÓS 2026! TRACK 1 and 2 High Flying Action Right Here!

It’s time for track specific coverage from the 4th 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...

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Here’s Our Final Gallery of Photos from the Carlisle All Ford Show and Swap Meet in Pennsylvania! Epic Cars, Trucks, and Parts!

Here’s our final gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. Joe Grippo was on hand like every year, capturing amazing finds...

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French Art: Jay Leno Rolls Out His 1972 Citroën SM For A Review

I first saw one of these rotting away in a woodline near Sequim, Washington. The shape, from the front to the back, was something I hadn’t seen before…the nose looked dramatic, the...

This Video From The 1994 Sunoco Racing Fuels Pro Mod Shootout At Atlanta Is Awesome – John Force, Al Tucci, More!

Here’s some great video for all those pro mod fans in the crowd. We’re taking you back to the 1994 Sunoco Racing Fuels Pro Mod Shootout at Atlanta Dragway where Al Tucci was calling the...

Do Not Try This At Home: The Skiing General Lee From Holley MoParty!

First thing’s first: breathe, it is only a 1969 Dodge Charger on the surface. Underneath, this is a Ford Crown Victoria, but regardless of what it actually is, what it actually does is worth...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Would You Ever Bring One You Sold Back?

One of the cars that visited “the yard” quite often was a car I genuinely begged for. I remember it clearly: 1979 Chevrolet Malibu two-door, primer gray with red gut, redneck lowered,...

On This Day: The Lindal Railway Incident, or How To Make A Locomotive Disappear Forever

“There’s a hole, there’s a hole…there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea…” It was one of my favorite cadences in the Army, about a hole that fit damn near...

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Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck

We’re definitely fans of the RideTech StreetGrip line of suspension systems. We have installed them here at BangShift we have driven cars with them installed and we have come away understanding...

Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?

(By Tom Lohnes) – The kind folks at Kylotonn provided a review copy of WRC Championship 9, their biggest racing title and a game I was excited to try out. My excitement was not wrong, because...

A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed

To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...

Pro Touring Vs Germany: A Killer 1966 Mustang Takes On A Porsche 911 Turbo S At The Streets Of Willow!

Well this is a fun surprise! A couple years back, I was part of a show for Motor Trend called “Put Up or Shut Up”. It went for two seasons and the idea behind the show was simple. Race...

Nitro Time Machine: The Day Don Campanello Tasted Pro Stock Glory At The 1986 Gatornationals

Don Campanello was a 1980s pro stock racer from New Jersey who was a stalwart on the tour, especially for the eastern parts of it. He was not a guy who necessarily had the raw horsepower of someone...

Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury

When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...

Money No Object: 1985 Crown Supercoach Tandem With Cummins 855 Big Cam

For the six years I spent attending school in the Pacific Northwest, I rode on a very different bus than I had ridden prior to. In Illinois, the school buses were Chevrolet and GMC 60-series...

Tiny Adventures: Going Overlanding In Hopped-Up Power Wheels

For the last couple of years, we’ve been showcasing the builds that the guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have been putting out, especially the ones that involve a Power Wheels toy, a ton of...

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Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light

The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...