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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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The Hellephant Finalls Roars: Check Out This Hellephant Swapped Demon On The Chassis Dyno – Massive Horsepower!

Mopar lied. They said that the $29,995 Hellephant engine that was revealed at SEMA in 2018 would make 1,000hp and nearly equivalent torque. It took forever to get these engines into the hands of the...

Classic YouTube: Putting The Big Hurt On ‘Em With A Big-Cube Olds-Powered Delta Ninety-Eight!

ProLuxury: the idea that just because it’s a pillow barge from the height of the Brougham era, that it doesn’t mean it can’t haul major ass and behave like a muscle car. It’s...

Tool Time With Stevie Fast: He Proves The Old Adage That If They Can’t Find You Handsome, Let Them Find You Handy

You know Stevie Fast as a racer but how about as a guy around the shop. Can he do anything? Is he just a person that hangs onto the steering wheel and lets go of the button? The answer is that yes he...

The 2020 Genesis G80 is Good But Is The 2021 Genesis G80 Better? The Numbers Tell The Story

(By Tom Lohnes) – The current 2020 Genesis G80 is already a jack of all trades. Making up to 420 horsepower, being affordable enough, and having features cars twice its price doesn’t even...

Mark Williams Enterprises C2/C3 Corvette Inner Yoke Shafts Make Your Corvette Stronger, Safer, and Able To Handle Horsepower

C2 and C3 Corvettes are some of the coolest cars ever made, but like any awesome car they have their flaws. Being way up in age and with lots of hard miles on parts that lots of people don’t...

Random YouTube: Just How Insane Can You Get With A Run-Of-The-Mill Tractor?

It has been a long weekend of hard work at BangShift Mid-West’s HQ, and the better part of that time has seen yours truly attached to a John Deere garden tractor as I’ve been shuffling...

Ride With Don Norby As He Hammers A Classic Jag XKE Around Rad Atlanta

One of the great regrets I currently have is that science has not allowed human cloning to advance to the point that it is a viable option for allowing us to be at all the places we want at the same...

Which Works Better For A Small-Block Chevy, The Carburetor Or The TPI System?

You can spot it a mile away, the TPI setup. One square brick with a throttle body at the end, with long runners leading down into the manifold base. If you were into late-model power in the 1980s and...

From the BS Photo Archive: Found On A Women’s Bathroom Stall

My wife, like the wives of many gearheads, is a living saint. She puts up with an awful lot for my automotive pursuits. Before we had the two boys, Kerri would often be riding shotgun to exotic...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Humans Being” by Van Halen (1996)

Alright, let’s not pretend that we don’t know why this song is the one being pumped out of the BangShift jukebox today. In a year that is going to be summed up in three succinct...

Like Butter: Tearing Through A Fire Hydrant With A 60,000 PSI Waterjet

Ah, the fire hydrant. Coated in multiple layers of peeling paint, visited by all the dogs in the neighborhood, cracked open when copious amounts of water is needed, they are icons of steadfast...

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This Crash From A Polish Rally Could Be The Most Violent Thing We Have Ever Seen – Driver/Passenger Reportedly OK

Rally racing is unique for any number of reasons but perhaps the biggest is that it is largely done without walls or devices to prevent cars from coming into contact with stuff like houses, bodies of...

Rough Start Fox Body: So Much For The Budget! We’ve Got Plenty Of Parts For Our Forlorn Fox!

I don’t care how good you are at scrapping things together, sooner or later you’re going to have to invest some money into a cheap car project. And that time for investment has come for...

Unhinged: My First Automotive Sin, And It Involved A Mustang II

It’s no secret that I appreciate the Mustang nobody else seems to, the Ford Mustang II. The early cars through 1970 are nearly worshipped. The 1971-73 big-body cars have a lot going for them,...