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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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The King Of The Hammers 2020 Rock Bouncers VS Crawlers Shootout Was Epic! Watch Here

King of the Hammers is an event like none other. If you haven’t gotten to see rock bouncers or rock crawlers in action, then you are missing out. It is some of the craziest combination of power,...

Please Help Us Welcome Borgeson, Your Complete Steering Box Solutions Company, To The BANGshift Family!

Brian, Bryan, and I are proud to announce that Borgeson is the latest addition to the BangShift family of sponsors, and want you to help us welcome them! It’s hard to name a domestic muscle car...

Every Cam Is A Turbo Cam! Just Ask Richard Holdener. Watch The Video Before You Start Arguing.

Every cam is a turbo cam? Wait what? That doesn’t make sense. right? Well it actually does, sort of. Sure there are high performance combos that can make more power with optimal parts, such as...

NHRA Has Been Making Chassis Tech Changes In 2020 And Tim McAmis Is Here To Explain What They Mean To You.

For 2020 the NHRA has come out with some pretty significant rule changes with regards to Pro Mod chassis and more. These new rules are intended to combat some of the recent issues with parts on cars...

$10K Drag Shootout Episode 7: Rising From The Ashes, These Burned Out Racecars Come Back To Life

Participating in the 2nd $10K Drag Shootout, after being a part of the winning team in the first, has been an emotional roller coaster. We were thrilled to come back with our entire Team Bigun crew...

Project Binky Is Back! This Bitchin All-Wheel Drive Mini Project Is Getting Close To Making The Noise!

We love Project Binky, and have been following this project nearly since it started. It has been a few years, but the work going into this crazy little machine is one of those things that just makes...

Unhinged: The Electric Vehicle Outsold The Manual Transmission For The First Time In 2019

One of two things is going to cause me to ditch a manual transmission for an automatic: either my left leg will no longer be useable to work the clutch pedal or what’s left of me will be...

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Not Built Like That Anymore: Uncle Tony And The Downgrading Of Today’s Auto Parts

So, in the last month, I wound up shelling out over a thousand dollars on my 2012 Chevrolet Cruze Eco’s transmission…specifically, the hydraulic slave cylinder, the clutch, the sprung...

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The LeManster, Part 1: Making An Off-Roader Out Of A Left-For-Dead Pontiac

Kevin from Junkyard Digs and I chat quite a bit behind the scenes. After the first writeup I did for a video of his, where he evicted a possum from out underneath the hood of an old Fiat 850 before...

This $25,000 1941 Hawaii License Plate Puts Our DMV Fees Into Check Real Fast!

I’ll admit it: I’m a license plate hoarder. I’ve got every plate off of every car I’ve owned from mid-1999 onwards except for two vehicles I traded in. I’ve got plates...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: You Get Your Hands On A 1974 Capri…What Do You Do With It?

On one hand, I’ve been fascinated with what the world over knows as the Ford Capri, the car that was a captive import for Lincoln-Mercury dealerships for the 1970s. They’re smaller, a...

Beastly Snake: Watch Sal Patel’s Dodge Viper Make Nearly 3,000hp With A Twin-Turbocharged V10

Sal Patel’s Dodge Viper is insane. It still has a V10 in it, it runs 6-second quarter mile times, it has run massive speeds, and it does it all with the correct engine and a factory body, not...

Insane Video: Watch This BMW Launch 15ft Into The Air After Hitting A Boulder At 70mph – Crazy Stuff!

Drunk driving is the worst. It’s dangerous, it is stupid, and it get loads of people hurt and killed every yeah. Amazingly the woman driving in this video was not killed but her car was as was...

NHRA Winternationals 2020 Sportsman Action: Fun Wheels Up Action, Cool, Cars, And More Highlighting Drag Racing’s Best!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – The stock and super stock categories of NHRA drag racing have been and always will be right at the top of our list of favorites in drag racing. Yes, there’s...