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55th NHRA Winternationals – Professional And Sportsman Champions Repeat

The first race of the 2015 season for NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series brings with it a surge of optimism for all the race teams. With a clean slate in a new year to build upon most teams...

Rock Crawling, Truck Bashing, And More From King Of The Hammers 2015!

If you have never been to the Nitto King of the Hammers, you are MISSING OUT! But the good thing for you is that we went this past weekend and shot approximately eleventy million photos. We’re...

The 48-Hour Corvette Is Happening LIVE Folks! March 10th Watch Us Build It From The Ground Up!

That’s right folks, if you have seen the 48-Hour Camaro running around the country for the past few years, and watched us build it LIVE right here on BangShift.com, then you know just how bad...

Car Feature: Street Legal Circle Track Camaro Is A Unique, Homebuilt, Corner Burning Monster

(Words and photos by Jim Volgarino) – A true gearhead can point to some seminal moment when he or she was struck by an unexplainable epiphany. That moment when you knew things had changed and...

Keep Your WRX or EVO, We’ll Take This Chopped 1949 Ford As Our Dirt Car Of Choice!

Okay, it might be a 1950. Either way, this dude in Finland kicks ass with his ’49 or ’50 Chopped Ford Custom on wide whites, steelies, and the whole deal. We’re talking tearing up...

Historic Race Cars And Hot Rods From The Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – An area was set aside at this event for survivor cars and cars with real history.  This isn’t ‘nostalgia’.  This is the real deal stuff.  It’s...

Mark Rebilas Publishes His Best Crash And Burn Photos Of 2014 – Breathtaking Stuff From Multiple Forms Of Racing

Every driver in every photo featured below is having a bad day. They are either about to crash, crashing, engulfed in flames, dodging parts, or trying to keep a bad situation from getting worse....

Tire Thrash: We Test The New BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 Through Snow And Ice In Sub-Zero Temps!

(Trail Action Photos by Dave Nutting – Tire Photos by BFG) – Along with the coolness of the Red Bull Frozen Rush event that Nutting and I covered a few weeks ago, there was also some...

Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway Built 1933 Ford Wins America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At Grand National Roadster Show

If you think that hot rods should be black with flames, then you are going to love Larry Olson’s Bobby Alloway built 1933 Ford that just won the 2015 AMBR, America’s Most Beautiful...

Hot Rods, Hot Rods, Hot Rods: Our 2015 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage Continues

The 2015 Grand National Roadster Show is, as usual, one hell of a show. I’ve been going since I was a little kit, when it was in Oakland. On our way to the show on Friday I was asking him about...

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This Video Of A Ford Doing A Huge Burnout With Mattracks Is Kind Of Awesome

Lots of truck content on Ye Olde BangShifte today. Want to know why? Stop asking so many damned questions, that’s why. The man driving the truck in the video is apparently the CEO of the...

2015 Grand National Roadster Show Photo Coverage: America’s Coolest Car Show Lives Up To The Hype

This was my first time visiting the Grand National Roadster Show after years of “missing it by a day”. I am now kicking myself that it took this long to get here because I can say flat...

2015 Grand National Roadster Show AMBR Contender: Red Hot Attraction Roadster From Sweden

This car is unique among AMBR contenders for several reasons but the biggest is that it was built in Sweden! The owner of the car is a man named Robert Hoffman and it is his vision that you see...

2015 Grand National Roadster Show AMBR Contender: Mike Gordon’s Psycho 1932 Ford Roadster

If the 2015 AMBR award were going to be given off the basis of horsepower alone, Mike Gordon’s Psycho 1932 Ford would be the clear winner. The car is powered by a twin turbocharged 428ci...